A friendly debate on what is amateur .

[sbm4latinaz]

First off this is not ment to start arguments , please keep emotions in check.

OK that being said , I've noticed that for the most part porn surfers and porn providers tend to have a different idea about what amateur is .
To many amateur means blurey scanned polaroids , I for one dont think quality defines whether a photo is amateur or not . The price of high end digital cameras has gone down dramatically in the last few years, hell camera phones today take better pic's than digital cams did 5 years ago , and digital cameras are still far ahead .
Infact not only have low end digital cams caught up with high end 35mm cams , but high end digital cams are almost up to the level of 64mm cams .
The reason I brought that point up is to point out that any joe sixpack can buy a 2 year old digital cam at the pawnshop and take pics at the level of a first semester photography student (because most digital cams ajust lighting and focus etc etc ) .
Where I stand on this issue is , its not the quality of the pic its the sets and the model itsself.
EXAMPLE:
1. if the background looks too perfect .
2. if the model looks too posed, made up, etc etc ...
3. lighting is too uniform.

THINGS I LOOK FOR:
1. Things that make the house look lived in , cig's in the ashtray , movie poster on the wall, beer bottle on the nightstand. etc etc....
2. a few imperfections here and there .
3. That feeling you get when buy a used car and find a photoalbum under the seat filled with naked 8x10 glossies of the previous owners alchohalic crazy ex from college.

To me even if the model is amateur , if the photographer is a pro , and the set looks like something out of playboy ,I will call it pro-am and keep going.
So I would like to hear the imput from you guys on what you think of when one says amateur .