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About Me Premium Member Deviously Deviant donmateo1Male/France Recent Activity Deviant for 1 Year
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Happy birthday to me ....

Sat Jun 13, 2009, 12:16 AM
Ok, guys, here are the (round) figures for the first year :
My 381 deviations ( a bit more than one per day) were viewed 576.000 + times
I got 16.400 + favs
And nearly 1.000 are watching my site...
Thank you for you all, it's been a tremendous experience.
We had a lot of high level debates on several images, and most of you do underdtand what I'm trying to do.
Of course, there are a few idiots here, but much less than in most communities !
What I suffered most is racism. I do like women, all women. All colors.
I shot asians, arabs, caucasians, latinas and african girls. And all kind of "mestizas"...
And I had a few extremly stupid comments about such or such girl. You have to know it.
Secondly, I'm sometimes flamed by very frustrated girls (half a dozen in one full year) that cannot accept to see all my marvelous models so happy in their body and sexuality.
My pictures make them face their own problems and obviously, that's very painful to them.
The funny part of the story is that most of them pretend that they are feminists and that I'm an horrible machist.
If you think about it, you'll understand that showing free girls assuming their sexuality and happy to share is not precisely a machist attitude.
At first I had a doubt about it, but the support of several models havind their site on D.A. and endorsing my work made me understand I was right.
A special thank you to them.
I hope to do much better the next year. More models. More desire. More freedom.
Because you deserve it...
Mateo
PS : I'm gonna clean the gallery and keep only half of the pictures

  • Listening to: Toumani Diabate
  • Watching: My models, mostly
  • Playing: Photoshop
  • Eating: Lasagnes
  • Drinking: Vodka

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I've been traveling in all western Africa (Mali, Burkina, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Benin, Togo ...) , South America (Brazil, Guyana, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile) and Asia (India, Indonesia, Philipins, Thailand, Malaysia...)
And I learned a big lesson : NUDITY IS TRANSGRESSION everywhere.
In no place in the world, including the most remote primitive islands, full nudity can be tolerated in everyday social behaviour.
So called "naturism" is bullshit. The first thing humanity does when it comes to this step is hiding its genitals...
Having said that, the infinite debate on the topic "is this shooting Art or is it just porn ?"happens to be extremly poor.
Nudes, including the so called "artistic nude"or "academic studies" are transgressions.
My work is even more transgression, because my main topic is not "nudes" but desire, mostly female desire.
And it's a hard one...
Female desire is not tolerated in our cultures.
I guess that's why I receive so many aggresive notes and comments each time I post a deviation.
I really don't mind.
But I guess there are also smart people coming to see my work and I want them to know the meaning of this venture.
Mateo

Comments


:iconhypedpro6:
You have the potential to be a great photographer with the models your able to get. Try & get a better camera or start to retouch your photos... nonetheless good gallery

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:iconsuckabig:
lov your pictures of the black ladies !

the skin tone of brown to black......

2 tips though: show the feet and don't cut them off, let the ldaies do them in a natural way....

show more texture of the skin....you have high res pic which I love, so show the cool texture....each girl has a different one....

LOVE YOUR PIX'S
:iconjosjac:
Merci pour la favorite

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:iconlechienbeau:
This is not art. There is no appreciation of photographic skills. Depth of field in every shot is poor. Composition is average, in the main, and lighting has been given zero thought.

Your EXIF shows the same settings for every shot f2.8 1/30th 5mm at ISO 100 with your focal point dead centre. So basically it appears you just use what is a relatively creative camera on AUTO setting.

Your subjects faces are never in focus.

Granted, its not porn, in that they are a complete turn off but by the same token its not really art either.

Try actually using the settings on your camera instead of just pointing and shooting.

Just because you have a lot of young schoolboys getting off on your images doesn't mean that they are technically good

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:icondonmateo1:
They are technically poor. So what ?
Art is not about focus or ISO.
It's about meaning...
It's far more challenging : you need brains !
:iconlechienbeau:
Challenging? Challenge yourself other than to point and shoot then!

I just think you could make so much more of your subjects. I'd love to have access to models so liberated but you are simply quite lazy in your approach.

Focus on the subjects eye, and throw the background. Give some thought to lighting and leave a little something to the viewers imagination.

That's titilating

Use your cameras settings and expolre some more.

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:icondonmateo1:
No way.
My Art is about seducing the models.
I let technicals matter to the maintenance guys.
Thank you for your help...
:iconlechienbeau:
But its not art.

You can find similar on worldwidewives or globalwives

If you think you are an artist you are seriously deluded

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