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Model is Wenona. She really likes spandex but she's a bit less impressed with Comedia Dell' Arte masks. On the other hand, since she couldn't see (no eye holes in the zentai!) she couldn't tell how incredibly cool she looked.Imagine that you're blind and sweating under bright lights that explode at random and a photographer keeps telling you "OK! Now do something cool!"
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Now this is pretty f***ing awesome. 
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i love that you guys used a morphsuit!
this photo is incredible. i love it. amazing job.
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Glad you guys could come up with something so amazing under the model's uncomfortable situation! This is incredible.
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Lovely shot, lovely contrast ... but heck, I guess you don't need me tellin' you that!
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-laughs hysterically- This is so awesome, the more I look at it the funnier it is. Beautiful image and your comment just rocked.
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It's not going anywhere. Most of the rest of this set is stock.
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why is it the more awkward and difficult the position the awesomer it looks?
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I dunno! But it does seem to be the case!
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Beautiful and haunting.
Reminds me of some sort of gorgeous bacchae. I love it.
Delightful.
B
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Nice concept, well done shot, and extremely flexible model!
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This is a really cool shot. Also, I need her number.
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I just ordered one of these suits, and I cannot WAIT for it to arrive! I plan on finally being in FRONT of the camera instead of constantly beHIND it.
On another note, I found out that my campus is reviving its photography club, which includes a darkroom at $10/term for all-purpose usage for black and white prints. w00t! I'll let you know closer to the spring what the travel plans are, as huge academic opportunities have popped up just... everywhere -- and it looks like I'll be doing exorbitant amounts of writing over the next two terms to potentially get published! I will be in touch, though. It's just going to be busy-busy-busy over the next 8 months... not sure when I'll be sleeping, let alone anything else.
Cheers, mate. Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
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Awesome that you'll be doing some photo fun!!!
$10 for access to a darkroom is insanely good. Just be careful and always remember that your fellow students may cross-contaminate chemicals on you (we had one guy get developer in the fixer bath, once...) Anyhow... That's awesome! Feel free to email me if you have questions.
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I'm simply going to notify the president that I will be changing the chemicals when I do my film. I'll be paying my dues, it's my right.
I'm looking forward to processing and developing my own film. I think that this will be what I start putting on DeviantArt from now on. Hell, maybe I'll get you interested 
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Don't worry about it at first (your first negatives won't be something you'll probably want to hang onto) and if you get really into it you might want to just get the stuff to develop negatives at home. All you need for that is a couple reels and a daylight tank and a 3 1-liter plastic bottles plus enough chemicals to make developer/stop/fixer. It's convenient not to have to go to the darkroom to process your negatives because if you process negs at night and let them dry they're ready to print the next day. If you want dry negatives, take a shower and get the air all nice and steamy (knocks down the dust particles) then hang your negatives and leave the bathroom door shut. Anyhow... protect your negatives from idiots and your prints are always duplicable.
I'm looking forward to when I'm home for a while and can make up my next batch of boxes. I have a bunch of ideas and a whole set of plates I did but I'm in my busy season and won't have much time in the shop for a while.
When you start with the darkroom stuff, I'm happy to answer questions, although some of the shortcuts I learned to take might make a classical darkroom teacher wince. (I experimented and determined that tap water - minerals, chlorine, and all - works just as well as distilled water if you jug it, let it sit overnight, and rap the side of the jug to shake the air bubbles out, etc, etc. Short fix with concentrated fixer washes cleaner than a long fix with long wash, etc, etc, etc I could go on all night)
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That's what I was thinking too -- regarding just setting up my own portable darkroom -- but I'd rather know the fundamentals and know that I love it before I invest several hundred dollars into the tools, the chemicals, and all that.
I'll be sure to harass you if I have any questions. Maybe if you have the time we'll have to skype it up sometime in some sort of crash course while I figure out how on earth to get to your place in the spring and/or if that will work for both of our schedules. Haha!
---- I can't WAIT to learn wet plate development...
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Don't go whole darkroom (though enlargers are cheap now) - just get the stuff to process your own film. That way if you want you can scan the film (!) and get insane quality images without darkroom at all.
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I'm interested in printing my own prints, too, though...
B/w only, of course, but it's still there.
How much are negative scanners these days?
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making your own prints is great fun; it takes a lot more space than developing negatives (which just takes a sink and a closet you can load film in) getting good negatives is the starting-point for everything, though. so focus on that, so to speak - there are services that'll scan a negative for you at ridiculous resolution for not a whole lot. but you can get scanners on ebay for not a lot; they're a pain to work (boring and finicky) I only used to scan the frames that I really liked.
this winter is when I am starting my darkroom build-out. I'm so psyched. I'm trying to figure out how to make good steampunk-looking fake steel girders to decorate the walls with.
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God, I would love to see the interior decorating when you're done with it.
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I'm going to post pictures, if it turns out well.
The whole project has me really psyched up. I was at the lumber yard yesterday buying plywood and sheathing for the walls and to construct the arches. (It's going to have these sort of fake girders overhead made out of 2" thick blue construction insulation)
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.... You're making me insanely jealous here....
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I think this accents her physique even more than if she was naked. I can't imagine the work and dedication that go into having a body like her. Read that to mean, "I'm too damn lazy."
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Hours and hours. First time I shot her she was into Pilates - now it's some kind of extreme Yoga. Obviously.
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Yep. I am just not nearly that dedicated to fitness, or at all for that matter. There are so many other things I want to spend hours and hours on. Although I do think working the horse, riding and shoveling horse doody probably all qualify as exercise. It's just way more fun that yoga which always reminds me of yogurt which just reminds me of why chocolate is so yummy which reminds me of the Easter Bunny and ummmm yeah. So are zombies alive or dead? I still need to know because it's still bugging me.
Now lets all pause a moment and offer silent condolenses to my boyfriend who has to live with me and my mind.
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zombies are dead; but they are animated by the virus inside them - so it's the virus, really, that is alive. that's my theory and it's backed by extensive research (I've seen a few zombie movies, that counts as "research")
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Oh - the name 'comedia' is from 'comedia dell' arte' -- but using the tragedy/comedy masks is a really good idea too. Hm.
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Your models must really trust you, since they keep turning out such marvellous work from totally insane ideas - without even knowing what's going on!
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Well, Wenona is pretty much completely fearless.
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haha well at least she doesnt have to look at a random spot, and move her head to any directions.... still nicely done, i love it
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that IS cool! 
no eye holes, but she could breathe, right?
i hope this is the 1st of one of our series!
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Yeah she could breathe through the cloth.
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