Originally Posted by montsnmags
In my experience as an amateur photographer, everyone is beautiful, and this can be revealed to others and the subject through photography. People who look bad in photos almost certainly look bad because it's a bad photo, not because they can't look beautiful. Like you both suggest, some (very, very few) folk look good in every photo. At the other end, there are some (very, very few) people who it is difficult to reveal the beauty of in photos. In my experience, this very, very tiny minority (the naturally photogenic, and the naturally unphotogenic) do not cut along lines of the eye's expectations as to attractiveness.
As I said though, every single person is beautiful. Not capturing that is a failure of the photographer, but a failure that's always fun trying to chase away.
Cheers,
Marc
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