model : Amélie
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french girl in cage … second time for Amélie : the pin-up is ready to be gagged. Miss, I have a nice ball-gag harness made in purple leather waiting for you !

the day before this shooting, I decided to install my lightbox over the cage sending sharp and hard light from the roof. I got that idea one year ago for a video shooting we never made with Anaïs due to schedule problems. But, the real addition to my initial goal was to use a softbox and a black background behind the cage. It gives a good contrast between the skin and the dark areas. Of course, I didn’t trying to shoot well lighted skin : I wanted to capture the shadows and the special atmosphere of all this. Since three months, I seriously worked on the right way to fix problems encountered with the Nikon D300 for studio shooting. After the dark zones, I enhanced the grey tones and also the color saturation : the result appears correct to my eyes now, then, I’m actually working on the sharpness and I gave a better protection filter to my pro lens to satisfy the cmos sensor. So, now I am more comfortable with the basic results, I am able to go back to the essence of my work : creativity and framing. I would never tried that kind of difficult configuration if I wouldn’t begin to trust my camera : the contrast between dark and light areas is a good trap and I wasn’t sure about the result. Finally, it worked great even if everything is not perfect. Amélie looks really nice in the cage and we shot a lot of pin-up pictures before to record on video the action. Indeed, after being gagged, Amélie started drooling and I got the idea to make her clean the cage : using her hands first before to be cuffed … then she was forced to use her feet and it was really fun to see. I didn’t want to do lot of things in the cage with the same girl : I got the idea to shoot 3 different sets using the same configuration with 3 different french girls. We could name it a triptych, each part making an echo to the other one. As I explained on the blog, Amélie in the cage is the first part, focused on the ball-gag play. You will get bondage in the second and third part but I won’t write more for now ;-) You will notice Amélie got a new tattoo during the summer and I love the harmony of those lines on the left side. You will also appreciate the ball-harness built in purple leather : this item has been made on request by Heiko from www.marlons.de and I didn’t use it yet. I got the idea to include this colored harness to give a nice touch of color to the whole scene. I hope you will love it !

model : Mina
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Yesterday, I’ve added another video to the latexculture member’s area featuring Mina bound with my new latex straitjacket. I already blogged one sample picture from that session focused on breathplay games. Here is a small video made before we started to shoot the scene. For the little story, I planned to shoot more action but I encountered a big problem with one of my cameras which was broken. I had to improvize and decided to make a shorter video with one camera focused on Mina’s face. We did one hour of breath play (just to shoot live pictures) before to bring back the muzzle gag harness … here is the moment when Mina is gagged again before to live 10 others minutes with the head inside the exciting plastic bag :)

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after two weeks working, I took a break for two days and that was a good thing. in few minutes, I will start working on the Amélie interview : 4 DV tapes are waiting for me and I bet the cut will take my whole day. anyway, I think you will love this interview made with Amélie … lot of interesting things including her first breathplay experience. for now, I wanted to share another backstage video from 2006 with Mina as the bound girl, Anaïs as the second model and my friend Alain and I for the shooting team. After one hour being bound and half an hour being gagged, it was time to untie Mina : you will note everybody manage one part of the rope work which is faster to release the girl. Of course, we spoke in french (mother language rules) but, for the little story, we were speaking and joking about the ton of saliva Mina had on her chest due to the ball-gagging. It was really funny also because the saliva ran down under the corset :)

model : Amélie
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today, Amélie discovers multiple restraints simultaneously : latex catsuit, strict corset, rope bondage and ball-gag harness. enjoy !

this serie has been shot recently several weeks ago during a cool afternoon focused on rope bondage. after a japanese style set, I decided to work with nylon ropes (long time I didn’t use it) : we took the latex catsuit to hide the ropemarks from the previous session and that was a good idea. Indeed, we only use catsuit few times with Amélie and rarely for being bound : she looks nice all dressed in latex, don’t you think so ? I had no photo assistant on this shooting even I was really please to welcome my flickr friend Liocarne who visited us. Now, he knows more about my work and we’ll try to make a set with him as the rigger next time he will come at home. For the first time, I didn’t want to make my model uncomfortable and I managed the ropes and photo stuff. As I said, it was a long time I didn’t use nylon ropes but I was pretty satisfy about the result : my ropework is clean and efficient and I found the right way to block the breast ropes. Indeed, the latex catsuit was really slippery and ropes were moving : that’s why I used an unusual figure for the breast bondage. I got a good idea to increase Amélie’s restraint adding a leather muzzle-gag harness : amazing ball-gag under the panel which gives a unique look to the tied girl. I do bet you will love how Amélie looks in the end, you can imagine her feeling about the situation : comfortable but unescapable, perfect for being bound for hours… no risk to fall, she was also tied to the wall. I think there is no need to mention Amélie was exhausted in the end, the heat was on in the studio and she was sweating into her latex catsuit. maybe we will try something similar very soon … adding rubber hood and testing total enclosure ? see you next time Amélie and thank you.

model : Mina
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Mina was the first one to be shot in my brown area … after the pin-up time, my japanese ropes started to bite her smooth skin.

I wanted these brown curtains for a long time but there were really expensive. Before summer, I was able to benefit from a special offer and it was cool to test this shooting configuration with Mina. As you know, I am tired about white backgrounds and I try to work in darker atmosphere since a while. For this set, I used lighting conditions tested two years before with Vivian Ireene Pierce. I know a lot of members prefer the “full light” configuration, that’s why I turned off one light for some shots only. It helps to create a warm atmosphere with deep shadows and that’s more exciting for my photographer eye. For the bondage, I decided to remain in the pin-up theme and play with arms and legs restraint before to make the situation more uncomfortable for Mina… then came the evil magic-wand, the ball-gag and the nipple clamps. You will notice I got a cool idea for her panties : using a rope, I stretched the lingerie, just enough to expose her pussy but not enough to make it visible in some angles. I love this kind of game, that’s more erotic because your imagination is more in demand. Your model is less comfortable because she’s exposed to you but your art remains classy even if the action is real. Of course, I shot a small video about the vibrator time. I hope you will love the pictures, I am sure Mina will love several ones… lucky girl, she begins to get cool series from me and we will do more within a near future :)