I met harlyharlekin (Hoa) for a photo shoot again :D We had lots of luck with the weather since fall is arriving. This time, we went to the castle grounds of Heidelberg.


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I had another rather... risque shoot a week back, I'll post pics in a while ;)

My english is absolutely horrid today, please bear with me. I guess I'll post about this in german another day.

I always stare out of the window when on the train, and sometimes I see neat locations on the way. 1.5 weeks ago I went to explore one of those places with Xui (kaefertal) and Michael. It turned out to be awesome, much larger than expected.
We went to look through the building which apparently used to be some kind of ... maintenance and storage facility for train stuffs. We didn't see much of the second story, as it was closed down. So we were in the yard, just about to leave, when we heard someone call us from out of one of the second story windows. We went "oh shit" at first, of course, but started a brief conversation with the seemingly twenty-something Turkish guy. It went something along the lines of, hi, what are you guys doing here? Taking photos? - Yeah, do you live here? - Yeah - Alone? - No, do you wanna come in? - Sure.
So he opened the door for us, and at this point we realized that the part of the building we couldn't get in earlier is now a homeless people shelter. Our new acquaintance turns out to be 31 and named Malik. He showed us around the place, which in a way is really cool, but you don't wanna go "AWESOME, I wanna be a hobo too" in such a situation. So yeah. Malik seemed really happy to meet "normal" people ("It gets so depressing around here, so when I saw you I thought - Oh, humans! :DD") and talked a lot, we were rather quiet because what were we gonna talk about anyways? It was really interesting and nice though, and he even asked us for our email addresses and asked if we would be visiting again. Oh, and he took us to the building's roof. The sight was amazing, but I only know from photos, because I was too scared to go up :(

Michael and I went there again on sunday, unfortunately Malik wasn't around but we took loads of photos. :D









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Also, there are photos of our first visit. You can see all the rooms there.

Still looking for girls and boys who'll do nude/topless modeling (may be paid eventually).

Awesome location is awesoooome. Who wants a shoot there?

I'm sooo tired.

Any suggestions on how to improve this one, editing-wise? I want to go for something more professional. ;_;

Julia, today, quick edit. My first time using a digitiser tablet after MUCH annoyance with a mouse that wouldn't click anymore.

Xui is coming to town!

Marino (marinou) as Enma Ai (Black), Deval (lumis_mirage) as Hone Onna (Blue); Series: Jigoku Shoujo (Hell Girl)



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Check out their web site, too: M-O-E.org
All the photos in huuge size: here

Just for fun, don't bash me for the overshopping XD

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manami_chan

I played around some more with my lighting approach from the ubergoth shoot, namely the colored soft fill(?) light.
And, of course, moar photoshopping! So this is what I got:


(Model: manami_chan. Thanks for being my guinea pig! ♥)

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New photos from Akasha Couture!

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Yesterday's shoot was awesome.

Some stats:
Models:
- Alice (the only non-asian. Long legs, green eyes, lip piercings - lovely girl)
- Xui (Amazing as ever - looong legs, best posing, we finally met again)
- Hoa (So cuuute! Very tiny, bright hot pink hair, sweet all over!)

Others:
- Deborah, Designer & seamstress of Akasha Couture
- Trine (?), her friend, also our Hair&MakeUp-Artist for the day, and my assistant
- Me, as photographer :P

Numbers:
- 6, people in the car
- 4, people the car was meant for
- 4, traffic laws broken (or more)
- 4, boxes of clothes (plus bags with dresses and hoop skirts)
- 7, hours of shooting
- 4, GB of photos
- 236, photos left after first selection
- 1, bag of trash my dog ripped apart to scatter the contents around my flat, licking ancient meat sauce and throwing up/having explosive diarrhea from it all over the bathroom
- 3, locations
- 0, catastrophes :D

Basically, what we did was a shoot to show off Deborah's designs. I was afraid my locations, aside from the blue gate-ish thing, would be too drastic for the casual and colourful outfits I've seen on her website, but she brought a set of gorgeous gowns along which matched perfectly! The weather was great too...oh well, on the the photos!



( Lots of photos...more like snapshots )

Read! Watch! And let me know what you think!
Also, it seems we'll do more shoots together in the future, so if you'd like to participate as model or hair/make-artist, give me a quick heads-up.

I'm sooo tired, I need to go to bed, but my PC is working at the moment and I don't want to leave it to diiieeeee D:




The third garden by =ToxicTenshi on deviantART


Hoa is so cute ;____; Gonna post the whole series in a few days

I had the test shoot with my new make up artist today, and I really love what she did. The results of the shoot are very different from what the model and I had planned - we originally wanted to do something high-fashion with much glamour, but we couldn't find an outfit for her, everyone was completely unmotivated, and so on - so just portraits. =)



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Sometimes I love a clean and simple beauty shot. Most of the time they bore me, though. :P



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More Xui!




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IT WAS INCREDIBLY COLD. Xui is the most cold-resistant model ever known to man *_*;

Sooo, I moved, and Xui was at my place for a week, so I kind of disappeared. But I'm back. With photos.

Bah, this keyboard (internet café) is missing keys. Fuck you.



( Gina, Xui, lolita, red, black, stuff, decay )