Thanks, guys. I really do appreciate your feedback.
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Originally Posted by Jetée
Not that it was too hard to infer this based on your comments above, but the above shots; they are of your current (-/ex?) dominantrix girlfriend? Did she "command" you to shoot her in such-and-such way, this-bearing-degree light, that you might have found it suffocating, if not a wholly negative experience, to feel like you were not in charge of the photoshoot? (my imaginative assumptions can go a bit further than you realize, do you think?)
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....Although, when you say "female forms", and go onto disaply most of them of outlinings (from the bum, hips & back, to the torso, body-hugging lingerie, leg-accentuating stockings, and chest region) I still find it striking to notice you withheld the facade, and what I think is even more visually-tantamount to femininity: the hair (on her head).
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The thread title might be a misnomer but it was intended as nothing more than a simple enough descriptive with no real relation to the actual project.
A few of these are of the dominatrix quasi-ex but aside from the charge that the photos be flattering, I was given full creative control over the shoots and subsequent photos. I should probably add that the light and lack of identifying features in these (almost) portraits were decisions made in an attempt to mimic and induce in the viewers of these images, some of what their clients feel: that strain toward something more, a connection or the feeling that something is being kept from you, fantasy and going along with it, a willful suspension of belief, etc. Inasmuch as the photos don't (and really couldn't ever) get at what they depict, regardless of what's included or cropped out, the client is never afforded anything beyond short-lived fantasy. The photos are simply intended to play upon this.
At some point I got carried away in all of this theory (read: pretense) and short-circuited my brain and all interest in the project. On the other hand, I just like making this stuff and I'm doing my best to navigate being a nerd and the sheer pleasure making this stuff gives me.
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Originally Posted by Jetée
However, my last comment: was there an inherent meaning to the slightly-easy-to-miss droplet peeking its ways on down your subject's chin? Is she hard at work, or merely enjoying her play? (Did you even notice this prior to your shooting her, or... even as late as my reply here?)
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Originally Posted by noodle
The texture of the neck skin in the last shot makes me feel odd, though. I'm not sure why other than it looks somewhat like someone shot a load on her face and it's dripping down her neck. Not to be crude, but that was my first thought. Even though I wanted to focus on the necklace and the contrast of textured skin and smooth metal.
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It's good to know it doesn't read so well but I was going for somewhat blown-out whites and wet skin.
Thanks again for all of your thoughts.