Glen, I've ammended my comment if your upset about it. Ugly and colour are two separate issues, one based on aesthetics and beauty and one on bigotry, influence and human conditioning.
As a photograph, it is what is is and it is not pleasing, there is no way of escaping that. If she is so facinated with her own self image then she should concentrate on Social networking of facebook and myspace is where she should be. If she wants to communicate with the business community then she has to present herself well. This is business and I'm trying to help her business model.
The old adage is - 'Only in the direst case, ever show the clients face' If that is the photographer which i didn't think it was, i kinda thought it was someone she shot. Thyen why is the first photograph on a photographers website taken by someone else? I am therefore first introduced to another photographers work on a photographers oown website. Can you see how upside down this is.
And yes I would tell someone the truth, if it would help me sell the product better.
On the Forum I'm not an MD, I'm a member passing a comment on to other members. I say what I see, always have, always will and that will not change. Call a spade a spade.
I for one wouldn't allow clients to view open forum comments, or give them any indication to it.
If you had informed us that this photo is the client and that she may be viewing this thread, then we may have been more tactful with our comments. But why would you want expose the client to this?
My whole arguement is I am presented by a non-pleasing image of someone photographed by someone else on a Photographers website. I've seen and commisioned thousands of photography and waded through thousands of Photograhers portfolios. The whole objective of their work is to producing pleasing or intrigueing visual represention. If they do then they have a good chance of getting business, which is what it is all about.