Quote Originally Posted by Clicker
This one I find to be more artsy, why?
Because its turned the female form into more than just viewing the female form IMO.
I can look at this and appreciate the diagonal lines in your composition, the focus on the buttons and the pattern that they make down the image. Very Favorable image of your model. So,as a female in my opinion, Photos that involve nude or semi-nude women are art when I can enjoy them for the composition, the mood and all the other visual elements, as opposed to being made to feel as if I just opened up an issue of Playboy or Maxim.
Hi Rachel,

Thanks for your comments! They are appreciated.

While I understand while you may consider the second one more arty. I disagree with your comments on the first image.

Why? There is a lot more going on in the first image than the second. I'm sorry you only see a pretty girl and not the "arty" lighting side of the image.

Unfortunately for a lot of us, I see where the "art as photography" is going. A beatiful landscape isn't good enough unless it's turned into some photoshop concoction. Then it becomes art. A beatiful women isn't arty because that's what you see in "mens" magazines. And, this makes it not arty.

Mike

PS: Again, I think people need to extrapolate images to actual printed images. Thus, they'll realize for a 400x600 to be appealling it must be oversimplified. Go to an art museum and you'll see many, if not most, of the painting would appear cluttered at 400x600.