dbriannelson
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Yesterday I tracked some of my photographs to this board - specifically AngelicAssassin's "B&W" thread. I think I've found images used on Literotica.com before as well, but didn't stop to look around. So this time I did. In any case, here's some of my own background:
I was a "fashion photographer" in San Diego. As San Diego has no "fashion," it was done for my own pleasure (once I'd decided to quit trying to make a living at it), while I paid for it as an engineer. My work started to be used in various magazines, either as features or illustrations, and in the occasional anthology book. Some place along the way a couple of friends who are well-known fetish photographers suggested that my dark style would work well in that genre'.
So, while photographing a model in L.A. for a magazine test, I asked her if she knew any models that would be interested in testing (that word has a special meaning) bondage. Rope's cheap; I was a Boy Scout; my studio is small. The girl volunteered and we shot the following week. I had an assistant for the shoot (another model) as I was somewhat concerned about leaving the poor girl trussed up on the table if I had a heart attack or something.
I discovered a few things during that shoot: I like the intimate handling of beautiful naked women; and, some women really like to be tied up. Really, really like it. The former I could have figured out by myself, but the latter I should have known about thirty years earlier. (He smacks his forehead with the heel of his hand.)
So I kept on shooting bondage, mixed in with my other work. The bondage/erotica was almost always in black&white, as I could process it start to finish in my darkroom, not relying on the pro lab I used for my other non- (or less-) sexual work. And I like the stark simple effect of white on black, with rope, the girl, and not much else.
Another thing I learned was that it is too easy to find bondage models. When that stuff started showing up in fetish anthology books and on websites models started emailing from everywhere, and I had more models than I knew what to do with. Half I turned down based on appearance, and half of the remainder based on the unlikelyhood I'd be in their neighborhoods in the near future.
There were a few favorites - Little Robin, above, keeps showing up over and over. She was local (in Japan now I think - or maybe Spain) and would drop in. Some fashion models thought it would be fun, so they're sprinkled in among the others. When I quit being quite so shy I started asking the models to masturbate while I photographed, keeping the faces out of the pictures for the most part. Or just shooting the faces, leaving the rest out. I'm even surprised by how many models thought that was a good idea.
I don't pay models. They get prints, small scans for the web, and huge fetish model credibility by working with me. The girls were there, naked and tied up under strong hot lights because they wanted to be. Sometimes there was a little play if it was apparent the model wanted it. Other times the shoot was just a shoot, and there was some play after (spanking - amazing how many girls have a daddy thing going), or once in a long while, sex.
As I said in the other thread, I'm obsessive/compulsive. Not a disorder, but a personality. Along came motorcycles, and the photography thing was out like a light. Three years ago, I sold my last car. Now I ride 7/24/365 and just got back from a ride through CA, NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, TX, NM and AZ. Eight days of wonder. But this was short compared to two of last summer's rides, and will be tiny compared to one coming up later this year. September maybe. August I'll be in Sweden. The rest of this month will be filled with business trips (airplanes - boring) around the country.
There I go again - off the subject. Bikes do that to me. For probably the next three or four years until the next thing comes along.
In any case, that's my background. I've never considered myself a player, though always enjoyed the bits of the scene I've participated in. I do have to admit that spanking the occasional ass while its owner was bound was fun. I still have my cameras...maybe I could do some more of that while out on my long rides. Gotta remember to pack a camera though, and it's not second nature anymore.
-Don
http://fotog.net/corpus
Yesterday I tracked some of my photographs to this board - specifically AngelicAssassin's "B&W" thread. I think I've found images used on Literotica.com before as well, but didn't stop to look around. So this time I did. In any case, here's some of my own background:
I was a "fashion photographer" in San Diego. As San Diego has no "fashion," it was done for my own pleasure (once I'd decided to quit trying to make a living at it), while I paid for it as an engineer. My work started to be used in various magazines, either as features or illustrations, and in the occasional anthology book. Some place along the way a couple of friends who are well-known fetish photographers suggested that my dark style would work well in that genre'.
So, while photographing a model in L.A. for a magazine test, I asked her if she knew any models that would be interested in testing (that word has a special meaning) bondage. Rope's cheap; I was a Boy Scout; my studio is small. The girl volunteered and we shot the following week. I had an assistant for the shoot (another model) as I was somewhat concerned about leaving the poor girl trussed up on the table if I had a heart attack or something.
I discovered a few things during that shoot: I like the intimate handling of beautiful naked women; and, some women really like to be tied up. Really, really like it. The former I could have figured out by myself, but the latter I should have known about thirty years earlier. (He smacks his forehead with the heel of his hand.)
So I kept on shooting bondage, mixed in with my other work. The bondage/erotica was almost always in black&white, as I could process it start to finish in my darkroom, not relying on the pro lab I used for my other non- (or less-) sexual work. And I like the stark simple effect of white on black, with rope, the girl, and not much else.
Another thing I learned was that it is too easy to find bondage models. When that stuff started showing up in fetish anthology books and on websites models started emailing from everywhere, and I had more models than I knew what to do with. Half I turned down based on appearance, and half of the remainder based on the unlikelyhood I'd be in their neighborhoods in the near future.
There were a few favorites - Little Robin, above, keeps showing up over and over. She was local (in Japan now I think - or maybe Spain) and would drop in. Some fashion models thought it would be fun, so they're sprinkled in among the others. When I quit being quite so shy I started asking the models to masturbate while I photographed, keeping the faces out of the pictures for the most part. Or just shooting the faces, leaving the rest out. I'm even surprised by how many models thought that was a good idea.
I don't pay models. They get prints, small scans for the web, and huge fetish model credibility by working with me. The girls were there, naked and tied up under strong hot lights because they wanted to be. Sometimes there was a little play if it was apparent the model wanted it. Other times the shoot was just a shoot, and there was some play after (spanking - amazing how many girls have a daddy thing going), or once in a long while, sex.
As I said in the other thread, I'm obsessive/compulsive. Not a disorder, but a personality. Along came motorcycles, and the photography thing was out like a light. Three years ago, I sold my last car. Now I ride 7/24/365 and just got back from a ride through CA, NV, OR, WA, ID, MT, ND, SD, NE, KS, OK, TX, NM and AZ. Eight days of wonder. But this was short compared to two of last summer's rides, and will be tiny compared to one coming up later this year. September maybe. August I'll be in Sweden. The rest of this month will be filled with business trips (airplanes - boring) around the country.
There I go again - off the subject. Bikes do that to me. For probably the next three or four years until the next thing comes along.
In any case, that's my background. I've never considered myself a player, though always enjoyed the bits of the scene I've participated in. I do have to admit that spanking the occasional ass while its owner was bound was fun. I still have my cameras...maybe I could do some more of that while out on my long rides. Gotta remember to pack a camera though, and it's not second nature anymore.
-Don
http://fotog.net/corpus
Love the pictures.
