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Shot today with Angela Ryan and Carlotta Champagne. 13 sets!!! Woah!I'm going to hopefully get samples up tomorrow, but in the meantime, here's a picture from my field trip to the Natural History Museum. LOL
My job rules.
xoxo!
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After receiving tons of requests, I've finally opened a proper print shop. I did a bunch of testing of various sites for print quality, and I've chosen to use Fotki. The store is still new, but there are already over a dozen images on offer. More to come!
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PART 2
I adore Micaela and I think she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed. This shoot was one of those situations where I felt very very fortunate that my photographer friends pimp models for me. LOL (Thanks Conan and Philip!!)
These photos were shot in a former bordello in Oakland, California, and document Micaela's first time in bondage. I'm so lucky to have been the one to turn her out. ;) This gallery is members only! Remember, this photo and the whole set are 3x this size on the website!
For all of my hot bondage photos and videos, visit MyFetishDiary.com!
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OK, prepare yourself because I'm writing this from a place of unhappiness.
Dear Models,
With very few exceptions, your boyfriend is not a photographer. Yeah, he may own some kick-ass equipment. Yeah, he may be able to get a couple good shots (with or without photoshop) out of the 300 he shot. Yeah, he may be able to help you get content for your porn site, but still, he's not a photographer.
I may own a calculator, but I wouldn't dream of calling myself a mathematician.
A few events occurred recently that have led me to make this post but, believe me, this is nothing new. It seems that some of the best aspects of technology become some of the worst, and this is just one example. Digital cameras keep getting cheaper, getting models has never been easier, and it takes just a few moments to print out a business card. But, I digress...
Here's why I'm writing this now. I was just hanging out with a very good friend of mine who is an AMAZING photographer and is suffering mightily. His main source of income is shooting headshots (we are in LA, after all). Sadly, his business has slowed to just a trickle recently because every aspiring actor has a friend with a digital camera and they think they don't need him anymore. Know what this means? My friend is freaking out while actors around town submit crappy headshots at auditions. (You get what you pay for, people.)
The other recent event has actually happened three times in the last few months. I have met three separate "photographers" who call themselves "photographers" and talk about "clients" and "jobs" who, in the course of conversation proved to be completely oblivious to how to take a photo. That's THREE so called "photographers" who had costly photo equipment, handed out business cards, but didn't know why their images weren't coming out right all the time. One of them didn't know how to or why she should set her white balance, and the other two DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT F-STOPS AND SHUTTER SPEEDS.
You know what? That's fucking low. Really. Everyone and their mother is a fucking "photographer" these days. You make all of us look bad.
I am in no way claiming that I'm the be-all end-all of photographers. I am not the best photographer out there. But I am a photographer. I am committed to my craft. I practice. When I got my new camera, I sat down for a day with the manual and learned how to use all of its features. I do research, take classes, attend seminars, and I always strive to increase and improve my knowledge. I take it seriously. We all started somewhere and I was once a novice too. But I didn't have delusions of grandeur and I didn't start out by giving myself a title.
You want to be a photographer? Great! More power to you! But please listen carefully to what I'm about to say. Go take a fucking class. Go learn about photography. Learn how to use a fucking camera. DON'T go spend buckets of money on the most expensive camera out there. DON'T buy strobes. DON'T invest in Photoshop. Real photographers can go outside with an SLR on full manual and take good photos that need no retouching. (Don't know what an SLR is? Guess what? YOU'RE NOT A PHOTOGRAPHER!) If you like to take pictures and you want to be able to call yourself a "photographer", you'd do yourself a favor to spend your money on education first.
Still want to call yourself "Photographer"? Take this simple quiz. If you can answer "yes" to all of these questions, then go ahead. You've earned it!
1) If, to call yourself a "Photographer", you had to pass a test like a lawyer taking the bar exam, would you pass?
2) If you go to a shoot and you want the image to look a certain way, do you know how to achieve it IN CAMERA?
3) Can you duplicate it?
4) Can you go through your shoot without looking at the LCD screen on your camera after every shot?
5) Sure, you've taken some nice photos of your model girlfriend who is perfect and knows how to move and directs YOU during the shoot, but are you capable of making some no-account non-model look good?
6) Do you spend more time shooting the photo than you do trying to fix it in PS?
7) Does your work speak for itself?
I can cook an amazing dinner, but I wouldn't call myself a chef.
I can bring you Ibuprofin if you have a headache, but I wouldn't call myself a doctor.
I can flog you til you say your safeword, but I wouldn't call myself a domme.
There's nothing wrong with being a hobbyist. If you're a GWC, then own it. Do what you want to do, but don't shit on me and my fellow photographers.
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You know that old saying, "You can't be too rich or too thin"?
Well, it's wrong. Though I'd like to test the "too rich" part of the equation, I'm here to say that you most certainly CAN be too thin.
Dear Models,
I don't know who's telling you that you should be super skinny, but they're wrong. I do not relish the thought of photoshopping your sternum, ribs, elbows, pelvic bones, etc. out of your photos. It's seriously gross. I don't want your veins sticking out in your pelvic area. Really. Anorexic is not good for you and it is not sexy. Healthy is hot.
Please eat a sangwich and find another way to gain control over your life.
K,
Thanks.
PS: This post is probably not about you. This subject just keeps coming up, and I keep getting modeling requests from girls who are skeletal and it's sad. But, having said that, if you THOUGHT this was about you, then maybe you should ask yourself why.
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I adore Micaela and I think she's one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed. This shoot was one of those situations where I felt very very fortunate that my photographer friends pimp models for me. LOL (Thanks Conan and Philip!!)
These photos were shot in a former bordello in Oakland, California, and document Micaela's first time in bondage. I'm so lucky to have been the one to turn her out. ;) This gallery is members only! Remember, this photo and the whole set are 3x this size on the website!
For all of my hot bondage photos and videos, visit MyFetishDiary.com!
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Timing - I really love everything about this video. I loved shooting it and editing it. Apnea starts out nude, climbing stairs... Her hips move and with each step, it's very "bow chick-a bow-wow", if you know what I mean. At the top, on the landing, she's flat on her back trailing her hands all over her body, then she grabs the latex she was wearing earlier and uses it to pleasure herself. The video is really arty, black and white, and hooooot!
It's 720x480 and for members only!
For all of my hot latex photos and videos, visit MyFetishDiary.com!
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This gallery was acutally shot the same day as the previous update. We were all up in SF for a workshop and I actually met Mariya (a former Playboy model) for the first time when we shared a cab from Oakland. We got along really well and decided to do some shooting after the workshop. These images were shot in my hotel room. Since wardrobe was provided for the daytime events, we had to scrounge clothes from some of the other models. I think we did a pretty good job because the dress she's wearing was totally made for her. This gallery is members only! Remember, this photo and the whole set are 3x this size on the website!
For all of my sexy photos and videos, visit MyFetishDiary.com!
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Athena Fatale and Satine Phoenix both messaged me a few weeks ago saying they wanted me to shoot them playing. I don't have Athena's message anymore, but here's what Satine's said.
"Miao? So... I've been thinking... I want to do some really intense photos and Athena and I were talking about doing some really heavy stuff. And you're into our pervs. And she and I have never shot together before. Wanna shoot it?"
Ummm... Duh!
Last night was the night. We shot at Stockroom's amazing facility again. The idea was to shoot just the BDSM scene, but Satine had just gone blonde again and was looking so fucking foxy that I couldn't resist doing some solos of her too. But, because I think ahead, I told her we had to shoot them first, before she got all marked up. Athena and I ended up shooting a pantyhose/corset/shoe dangling solo set too.
I really had a blast, as I knew I would. Athena's always great and Satine's a total dreamboat. I decided that if I was a guy and if I wanted children, Satine would have my baby. Good thing neither of those is the case so I don't have to convince her to do it. ;) I'm just happy I get to perv out around her.
So here a some samples from the two solo galleries and the BDSM set. Seems that Mistress Athena caught Satine blowing off cleaning the kitchen to catch up with her friends on Twitter. Then, she rewarded her for bad behavior by spanking her, applying nipple clamps, tying her hands behind her back, then lifting them in a strapado, then spanking, and flogging her delicious ass. Satine grimaced and winced, but I could tell she was one happy pervert.
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tags: Satine+Phoenix, Athena+Fatale, Christine+Kessler, BDSM, bondage, strapado, pantyhose, fetish, model
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PART 2
Mosh and I shot these photos while running around my hotel in San Francisco, hoping not to get caught. We were in the elevator riding from floor to floor, the dress would get pulled up (no panties, thank you very much) or her boobs would make an appearance, then the elevator would slow and her bits would get hidden before the doors opened on the next floor. This kind of behavior is usually frowned upon, so we did our best to look like every other elevator rider wearing latex and 6" heels accompanied by a photographer. Make that, two photographers because Lithium Picnic was with us shooting video. Frantic fun, rubber and Mosh's boobs = good times. =) This gallery is members only! Remember, this photo and the whole set are 3x this size on the website!
For all of my hot latex photos and videos, visit MyFetishDiary.com!
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