To: pml1@yahoogroups.com
From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:24:46 -0000
Subject: [PML1] Re: CC: Aliya Wolf

[Steve Migala reminded me that I had not given a review of Aliya's
portfolio last year, because it wasn't on line when I posted the
original. Here is the centerfold critique with the alternate portfolio
selection]

In Aliya Wolf's centerfold (February 2004) she's waiting for us at the
bar.

There are only four things wrong with this centerfold.
1) Aliya's left breast looks like it could lose a couple of pounds of
air. It doesn't have this look in any of the other shots, only in this
pose and this camera angle.
2) Aliya's tat? is too big and in the wrong place. 50,000 years of
evolution drive our eyes lower but the tattoo stops us cold in our
tracks. Some of the fig leaves of the sixties had the same problem.
Again, this is something not seen in the other shots/poses.
3) Aliya is just standing there. We're completely without any sense of
tension. There seems to be no reason to believe that approaching Aliya
would yield positive, or even negative results.
4) The centerfold was shot in a film format too small for the size of
the centerfold. It's not too noticeable in skin tones, but in the
background the grain makes it look like the picture was taken through
a stocking. The people who "read" Playboy only in the bathroom won't
notice, but I do.

I don't blame the photographer. It's the editors.

Photographer: Stephen Wayda

Scoring: 
Pin-up: 1.0
Erotic: 1.0
Artistic: 1.0

Overall: 1.0 out of 4.0

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: #6 A
much better pose for Aliya. I could stand to look at #26 all day, even
though it's not really centerfold material.

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/2004/02/centerfold.html
http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/2004/02/06-lrg.html
http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/2004/02/26-lrg.html

Mark Tomlonson