So What is Wrong with Tattoos on Women?!?! (Page 2): Well I think the point was with or without tats...the body we can presume to be the same. The girl beautiful without tattoos is...

photoshack Loc: Irvine, CA

SharpShooter wrote:

photo...., gansta and dangerous living?!?! What exactly is dangerous living? You mean drinking and getting high...., maybe unprotected sex? That's the same things the untated girls do too!!
If you're 5'10" and want to do commercial modeling you'll have no tats. If your 5-2, you'll only do alternative modeling, and there is as much demand for with tattoos as without.
Give me a beautiful model with tattoos over a fat girl with no tattoos any day!!
SS

Well I think the point was with or without tats...the body we can presume to be the same. The girl beautiful without tattoos is much easier to photograph. You can always body paint a clean skinned girl to look tatty if you need to.

PaulG Loc: Western Australia

photoshack wrote:

Well I think the point was with or without tats...the body we can presume to be the same. The girl beautiful without tattoos is much easier to photograph. You can always body paint a clean skinned girl to look tatty if you need to.

I totally agree . The whole point here is "with" or "without". Plus, a point that seems to have been largely ignored here; those glorious pieces of artwork will become unrecognisable stains in years to come, that's a certainty. "Disfigurement", for want of a better word.

photoshack Loc: Irvine, CA

Bobbee wrote:

Sometimes I like them. One of my brides.

Wait; this isn't justification for photographing tattoo'd women is it? Because if anything, a cock impaling itself on a fence would be a tattoo to be completely painted over for the wedding photographs.

micolh Loc: NYC

SharpShooter wrote:

Sorry, no nude pics! LoL br I've been pretty surpr... (show quote)

For me, the problem is the haphazard placement of them. There, in some appears to be no strategy. One here one there.

balticvid Loc: Queens now NJ

NormPR wrote:

It takes everything away from a beautiful body, just like fake boobs.

Agreed!
A tatoo on a the female body is like a bumper sticker on a Ferrari.
Can't be improved.

Just my opinion.

SoHillGuy Loc: Washington

Or give me a model with no tattoos over a model with tattoos. The body is a temple for the soul not for tattoos.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

I'm an old guy and I think this topic can be organized by age. I don't like tattoos and I have never seen a woman look better by having a tattoo.

Next time you see a photo of a nude woman with a tattoo, mentally remove the tattoo and ask yourself: "does she look worse without that tattoo" ?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

SharpShooter wrote:

Sorry, no nude pics! LoL br I've been pretty surpr... (show quote)

I like them. They are sexy as hell if done right. A couple of nights ago I sat next to a 24 year old girl that had a lot of tats, and it was difficult to keep my eyes off of her. I'm way too old for her, but I wouldn't mind photographing her. I'd probably need some salt peter to keep things on track though.

The only thing that worries me about tattoos is that they don't look good on old skin. That 24 year old might look sexy as hell now, but when that tattoo is 30 years old on a 54 year old woman, I guarantee it won't look good then.

MtnMan Loc: ID

travelwp wrote:

I'm an old guy and I think this topic can be organized by age. I don't like tattoos and I have never seen a woman look better by having a tattoo.

Next time you see a photo of a nude woman with a tattoo, mentally remove the tattoo and ask yourself: "does she look worse without that tattoo" ?

And then there are the body piercings. I feel revulsion every time I see one.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

tramsey wrote:

This has been talked about before and I've given it some thought and come up with this reason. For me it goes back to my days as a policeman; 'respectable' people weren't tattooed, thugs and people looking for trouble were.
tattoos = thug = jail time, simple as that. Now that's good straight thinking

Very narrow minded!!!!!!!!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

SharpShooter wrote:

photo...., gansta and dangerous living?!?! What exactly is dangerous living? You mean drinking and getting high...., maybe unprotected sex? That's the same things the untated girls do too!!
If you're 5'10" and want to do commercial modeling you'll have no tats. If your 5-2, you'll only do alternative modeling, and there is as much demand for with tattoos as without.
Give me a beautiful model with tattoos over a fat girl with no tattoos any day!!
SS

Whats the matter with fat girls?
It took me a long time to get a good nude of "fat" girl, its not easy even if she has a pretty face. Actually a good tasteful nude is not easy. I have seen a lot of photographers make a beautiful model look like a ugly gutter slut, nude or clothed.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

photoshack wrote:

You do know that today's young people are attracte... (show quote)

The key word here is presume, this is akin to racial profiling.
Now that being said, I enjoy beautiful Ink work, I don't like the gangsta stuff mainly because of the message.
However I have never & will refused to photograph anyone because of tattoos, but I may not use a tattooed model because the ink would be out of place in the Theme or mood I am trying to set.

Reinaldokool Loc: San Rafael, CA

SharpShooter wrote:

Sorry, no nude pics! LoL br I've been pretty surpr... (show quote)

It depends. Since I am trying to portray the personality of the model--not just either the lines and curves or eroticism--if the tattoos have significance and meaning for the person then I will shoot her, sometimes with some explanation. If the tattoos are just about a drunken party she went to and now regrets, forget it. (If I really want her otherwise, I will PS the tats out, with her permission.) If the tattoos are simply artwork, I will prefer not to photograph them.

micolh Loc: NYC

Manglesphoto wrote:

The key word here is presume, this is akin to racial profiling.
Now that being said, I enjoy beautiful Ink work, I don't like the gangsta stuff mainly because of the message.
However I have never & will refused to photograph anyone because of tattoos, but I may not use a tattooed model because the ink would be out of place in the Theme or mood I am trying to set.

Racial profiling, give it a rest!!! If a cop gets a description that a black person assaulted, robbed or in some other way committed a crime against someone should the cops look to arrest an Asian, Hispanic or a white guy??? I guess the black people who looted some buildings in Cleveland aren't really black.

Dziadzi Loc: Wilkes-Barre, PA

I do not find the need to have a tatoo on my body. I am not opposed to a small, discrete tat on any person. What really repulses me are those people who find it necessary to cover large areas of their bodies with "so-called art." I prefer to call it "graffiti".