A little bit of this, a little bit of that…

Sometimes photo shoots come out well.  Sometimes they’re a disaster.  And sometimes they’re just not up to par with what I’m used to.  And sometimes, photo shoots are lost in the ether of cyberspace.

Right now I’m going back into a few old shoots and I made an attempt to do a new shoot out in the snow, but I was so.. ahem…  rudely interrupted that I’m going to have to resume that shoot in a few days.

First off, back in September when I went to Montreal Fetish Weekend, I had some spare time in my hotel room and decided to do a quick shoot in the natural light.  Originally I wasn’t happy at all with the shoot, but I’ve managed to salvage a mini-set of 49 pictures out of all this, and I guess it’s better to release it than to not release it.
Natural light is usually a very tricky thing, and I had to play around with the colors to get everything to look better balanced and warm.  When you have a mix of indoor lights and outdoor lights, man, that’s a mess of yellow and blue at the same time.

Speaking of bad lighting, at the same time in January that I did my “Fur Closet” shoot. I had banged off a set in front of my fireplace, getting all cozy with a cup of hot cocoa.  I was wearing a low neck sweater dress which one of my fans was clamoring for a sweaterdress shoot now!
I was having a very tricky time with having the studio lights low enough so that I could see the flames of the fire behind me.  I was not happy with the results, but looking back at the shoot, I bumped up the brightness, and though the pictures are pretty grainy, there are some good poses, so I might take the best of this shoot and add it to the Montreal hotel room shoot.

I mean, it’s OK, once you play around with the pictures.  Truth be told, I’ve been sitting on these photos for over a month I should’ve just processed these shots back during the dry spell between”Fur Closet” and “Bimbo Peep”.

Once upon a time in Jamaica, I was at the Hedonism II resort for the Miss Fetish Queen of the Universe pageant.  The event organizers had a few guys taking photo shoots all over the resort, and we were told we’d get the photos to use for our own use.  I did a wonderful, yet not particularly X-rated latex shoot with the beautiful Alexia Jordon, Denver dominatrix and lated Barbie-doll inspiration for me.

I recall after the event contacting the photographer and yes, it was allright for me to use the shots.  He then sent me to a dropbox or something like that. However, he didn’t really give me much that I could use because instead ot just sending me the 200 or so pictures of me, in high resolution, instead he sent me every single photo he shot during the week, in an almost completely useless resolution of like 600 x 800 pixels.

Some time later I tried to get back to him but alas, he had some big falling out with the entire fetish scene and he dropped off the face of the earth.  I don’t know, found Jesus or something.  In any event, there’s this GREAT shoot of us that I can hardly use.  I recently went back into it to see if I could up the resolution but I know what I really need is the original resolution to start from.
I’m  not sure what I’m going to do.  It’s entirely possible that the event promoters have the original size photos, maybe I’ll pester them to let me use them.  The event itself was like over 2 years ago so I’m guessing the timeliness of the photos (in relation to the event) is kind of moot right now.  It’s not my best stuff, but if I had the originals to work from I know I could get a pretty hot set out of them.
Lastly, I decided to try to make lemons out of lemonade and do a furkini shoot outside in the snow.  I set up a little nook on my  back patio with my back to the rest of the world, and got busy with the self timer.

However, this winter I had been giving away firewood to some guys in the neighborhood, who always let me know when they wanted to get more.  Well, they decided to just  show up unannounced in my backyard while I was doing this shoot.  Of all the days they had to pick, of course they picked this day.

I only managed to get about 50 pictures shot when I noticed voices behind me, about 100 feet away.  Actually they didn’t even see me (I probably blended in with the snow), but in any event I scurried into the house and grumbled a bit and sent a few texts out asking to please let me know if you’re going to show up and grab wood, but not explaining why.

In any event the sun was going down and I was running out of decent sunlight.  I seem to always succeed at whenever I do an outdoor shoot on a sunny day (when I’m using a reflector to bounce it back at me), without fail, the clouds come out of nowhere and ruin my lighting.

So yeah, the fur shoot, I’ll just have to pick that up and finish it in a few days, though to be honest, I’m thinking a whole totally different angle anyway, so I’m not sure what I will do.

The bottom line is that there is always stuff in the pipeline, wether it’s something new, something old, or something from the cutting room floor.  And somewhere out there, in London England, on some guy’s shelf, is a roll of undeveloped film from 2003 of a really hot bellhop shoot I did over there.  Alas. I don’t think that shoot will ever see the light of day.  Also at Bondcon in 2004 I think I did a sweater shoot for a sweater fetish guy, and I never ever saw it..

Ah, alas, sigh.

-Tara