G'day EP & RA ... and others here
Like you, I am also a serious photographer - and I agree 100% with your presumption that 'good' photographs are worth the dollars one spends to have them created. As I look at the gallery here, I am frankly appalled at 90% of the images as displayed ... obviously taken 'on the quiet' as a selfie, and often showing what I consider the wrong stuff
Sure, I know many blokes think that a bloke's erection is exciting, or a woman's vagina is exciting - but to me there's heaps more to it than that. To me, one has to entice the viewer via the imagination, and by leaving out the obvious bits and showing just enough to get the other person to ask for more, is where it's at
For me - I have created special camera filters to apply selective blur across an image - better than PS pp, and as I shoot the person/couple I try to create the aura of desire - rather than going at it like the proverbial bull in a china shop and simply showing the bits mentioned above
ps- I like both your profile pix
Phil