Well, remember how I said I got four shoots done about a week ago? Well, I showed sneak peeks at three or them, and I haven’t see the fourth one yet, and one of them came out already as “Boating Bimbo”
Well, during that time we were having a bit of a heat wave, enough of one that it made it very hard to work under hot lights in my studio (though I recently discovered that you can run only the strobes and not the modelling lights, but it’s hard to see what you’re shooting when you do that), so my studio work had to wait a little while.
We just had a 3 or 4 day stretch of decent dry days and nice, cool 60 degree nights and I took advantage of that, and got another 3 shoots done in my studio in like 2 days. One was a bit of a throwaway, another one a new twist on an old outfit that looks fantastic and the third one a long awaited shoot in a new outfit that even though it might be the most uncomfortable thing I ever made, might have produced some of my best pictures so far.
In other words, I have been PROFUCKINGDUCTIVE lately. Which is good, because I think what I need most is people to JOIN my WEBSITE and it’s best that they know that there’s a floodgates of stuff on the way (So yes, join my website, like now, because this is the month I get hit with my Visa merchant renewal fee so it’s a really tight month for me)
So I’ll talk about the other two shoots seperately, since I think it’s better to make lots of shorter blog posts than mega posts that cover multiple shoots. So here’s a sneak peek at “Steampunk Valkyrie”
Bits of this outfit were done years ago, and were actually the outfit I wore underneath this one for my “History Of Burlesque” fan dance performance. But there was always going to be more to this costume, and I finally got to make it for Pennsic about a month ago. But damn, this thing is sharp and pointy and uncomfortable as all hell. So this shoot was something of a crap shoot since as the shoot wore on, the outfit wore down on me a lot.
Oh, and that hair kept getting caught in the outfit, and I couldn’t reach it with my hands to brush it away! So I tried to push it away with the sword blade and also the wings would cut off the circulation to my hands so that made them look a bit more….um.. veiny than I’d have preferred. So I still have some selective editing and photoshop work to do to fix the issues with it. Really, though, I should’ve made some sort of armored gloves, but if I did that, I’d probably take another 2 years to finish the outfit. Sometimes you just gotta STOP WORKING ON THE DAMN THING and just get on to the next project.
Keen eyed observers will note that I “borrowed” those gears and pulleys off of that Jules Verne Sex Machine I made a while back. Don’t worry, I can just always screw them back on the thing. I mean, pretty much my whole life is held together with drywall screws when you get down to it. I’m pretty skilled with a Makita.
So anyway, the outfit of course slowly came off during the shoot (well, parts of it broke off, but I can always fix that later). Which of course is good since you all want to see the naughty bits anyway, right?
Sword and Magic Dildo!!!
So I don’t know if this one will be the next shoot or sometime later, but I’ve got so many shoots in the can I’m not sure which one to edit first!
Pretty much everything about this outfit is handmade or hand-modified, from the earrings to the shoes, and the material? Well, it’s this kind of flexible plastic/heavy vinyl that I can’t really describe and I can’t for a minute figure out what you’d use it for otherwise. It was the material I used to make the Dildroid outfit for UNS.
So after 3 nice nights, the hot weather has returned, but my plan is when it comes back again in September, I will essentially have a good 3 or 4 months until it gets too cold to effectively heat the studio, so it seems prudent to basically get a lot of stuff done then, even if I end up spending all winter editing the photosets. And that work DOES include UNS, and actually geting these shoots done frees up studio space for some of the sets I need to build to finish that project once and for all.
-Tara
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