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Originally Posted by ArseWithClass

Oh most definatly do the pictures have to be different for different niches, but again for this, the picture should be taken in different settings & lighting.

Therefore there should be still little need for much retouching in porn.

As said at the beginning... the picture should be taken pretty correct from the start.

Even if a picture is taken correct from the start, what goes in the camera is often pretty different from what comes out for several reasons. All camera models handle the data differently, often in very different ways. And if the photographer decided to shoot in RAW but did not process his pictures afterward it's another example where "proper" care was not taken. Think about the dark room from the previous generation, a huge part of the work was done in there and could dramatically alter the way the picture came out.

I'm not talking necessarily about making all pics look the same, but at least have proper photographic quality to it.

For example, personally I find the pictures from gallery carré to be definately lacking some punch (notice how the darkest black in the pictures is a dark gray and the whitest white is a mid gray, for a start) :
GalleryCarre.com - Black And White Erotic Photography

In contrast, we can see that care and love have been put in these :
l o i c . p e o c ' h - p h o t o g r a p h y

I might not be the best judge for all that though as I always loved well made pictures. I do love stuff like that too though :
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