Everyone knows that sex sells, we see it everywhere in our daily lives. I suspect a great deal of thought, design creativity and planning went into creating the image in order to sell or promote a product or service. We as a society, accept that. This also applies to non-commercial work by both amateur and professional photographers. More often than not, these images are nice works of art. On the other hand…

I belong to various photography groups on facebook, flickr, 500px etc. There are many awesome boudoir, fine art nude, pregnancy and other tastefully done photos to be seen. The likes, stars, hearts or whatever other rating system used can be fairly high and boost the confidence of the photographer who created the image. Then you come across an image that obviously had no thought put into it. No creative process was used. The image isn’t even sharp. Yet the ratings are through the roof!! Why? Simply put, because it is a good looking young female showing some ass or breast. Or it could be a male subject showing off his six-pack, ass or partial lower body. I’m not talking porn images. I’m talking about actual art.

I realize not every photographer is at the same level of experience and we all have a particular style or technique. Fact remains; a bad quality image is a bad quality image no matter who created it. My question being, why would the “perfect” image be getting lower ratings than one of a lower calibre with basically the same pose or wardrobe?