I got Bria to come by the studio on a less-than-one-day notice due to someone straight up ghosting me on insta after confirming she was good to go for a shoot. I swear people think photographers just hang out all day with nothing else to do by cater to models absurd lack of scheduling prowess lol. Salt on the wound - she actually DM'd me *while I was shooting with Bria* with some excuse about how she "got carried away with life stuff" and didnt even acknowledge that it was literally the time we were supposed to be working together, so, with that, I am big thankful for Bria for coming in after her work shift was over to knock out a couple looks.
I threw together a few last second ideas that I had been sitting on, one being this with my huge collection of fake ivy leaves and green underbust corset. My thought process was to make a huge pile of leaves, have her model in it, and add/remove/augment leaves using generative tools later. I also shot this whole thing with green lights, but opted to adjust the entire color scheme afterwards to make her skin pop more.
Overall the shots came out pretty dang good and Bria did a great job, despite pulling a full work shift THEN coming in to model.
I'm just a little proud of this quick 30 second backdrop I threw together. I dragged this hope chest over, threw the couch blanket over top, and voila! Although, and I think I've said this before, it's probably just Lahanna carrying the scene 🤔
I'm going to check in with Hannah and see where she's at for future shoots. She recently deactivated her OF and I wonder if we are the last ones to see this, uh, literal side of her. Even if she is stepping into retirement, I'm glad to have had a chance to work with her!
I think this is the last set from Lindsay's old place. I was a little bummed that our sunny sunset turned into a cloudy mess at the literal last second, but we persevered and also managed to give a few construction workers a show haha. The top she's wearing was a handmade piece I got from a boutique shop down in San Jose. It was hella expensive so you're DEFINITELY going to see it again, as well as Lindsay, of course.
Part of me was upset that I didn't bring the appropriate adapter for my circular polarizer lens, because it would've almost eliminated any reflections in the glass. HOWEVER, after getting this set into the editing bay, I have to say I'm glad I didn't have it because the colors and overlaid exposure look pretty incredible.
Side note: If we lived closer, Lahanna and I would be shooting like almost weekly. Our sets always come out great and her look is unmatched.
Charle Jay aka Lay Luscious is back Gentleman and (especially) Ladies, and she's got a brand new rack to flaunt lmao. So she hits me up a couple months ago and we're chatting up booking a photosh00t while she's here at her parent's "recovering from breast augmentation surgery" so naturally I'm like "👀huh?👀" Keep in mind she is still only a couple months post-op and she wanted to wait until her breasts healed up completely but we opted to just jump into it anyways so she could get back home to the east coast. Charle gets shit done, tho, which is why I always try and work with her when she's in town. She doesn't dawdle when we shoot, she moves with a purpose, and I always end up popping ibuprofen for days after.
Anyways, this is the first of a few sets that I gotta dive into, there's a BTS for this as well so check your inbox and if you don't see it, tip me $5 here and I'll jet it over to ya.
Here we have Jordan West in her natural habitat, a kitchen, wearing an oversized button-up dress shirt, and literally nothing else. And you may think "wait, that sounds sexist" but, no, I'm not joking, much of her instagram feed looks like this because her fanbase LOVES this look, and she knows to take full advantage of it. Sexiest business woman alive imo.
I've got some new Charle pics and bts in the pipeline, and I wanted to give you guys a peek at what it's like editing this set down using both content aware and AI tools in photoshop.
You guys have probably already seen this video, as I rushed it out as soon as I could, but the photos are equally as captivating. It is Heather, after all. If I could go back and change one thing about this shoot, tho, I'd uproot those damn ugly ass umbrellas and throw them down the hill because they are in almost ALL my scenes around this house lol.
Side note - While making the AI version of Heather, I found that including the word "umbrella" in the prompt will literally include THESE umbrellas, because they were present in the training data that I used to make her virtual model. So, you know, they're just gonna haunt me forever I guess.
Speaking of Lahanna, I've got an AI update on her!
This is another lengthy post, so don't judge the pictures accuracy just yet as they represent the process from not-quite to pretty-much-nailed-it. I trained a total of about 8 AI models of Lahanna over the past few weeks, and it was my most difficult face training job to date.
First, there were issues with teaching the AI how to represent nipple and nose piercings (nipples in img 2-3), so I went through the dataset, which is the collection of images and tags that are used to train the AI, and photoshopped out all the piercings and removed all mentions of piercings in the tags. I *thought* I had done a good job, and visually you can see that the nipples are clean and free of barbell piercings, but the ai STILL found a way to see it. Upon further research, it turns out the method that it uses to train a model can also reveal even the most minor of blemishes. I did another pass few passes, doing more and more photoshop work with each one and I ultimately got them to be *almost* perfect, but nothing that can't be fixed in post or using inpaint (img 4). Piercings were the bulk of the initial issues.
Next hurdle was her face structure and hair, which were actually very much connected in the 'eyes' of AI. Lahanna's look is inherently alluring, and what I mean by that is a woman with long wavy full bodied hair that's falling over her face while she's eyeballing the viewer is, like I said, a sexy look. Obv that's not what these AI checkpoints were trained with so it suffers in multiple ways when you try and force it to put hair over even ONE of the eyes, and this is a trademark Lahanna look! So it seems to compensate by substituting incorrect features and proportions on her face (img 5-6). You can tell these are at least inspired by her look, but they are still incorrect. This led me to revisiting the dataset one more time, this time ADDING "hair in face" to the training data.
The actual training parameters hardly changed, as I certainly feel I have that close to nailed down from my Heather and JMO models, so the problems resided almost exclusively in the damn dataset lol. After adding the appropriate tags, recropping some of the images, and adding a few more shots where hair wasn't covering Lahanna's face to the dataset, I was able to generate probably about as close to the real thing as we're gonna get, and it's pretty damn close imo (Img 7-11 and 1, ignore the gimp arm and focus on the face! lmao). Included in these final pictures are a few artistic variations like anime, pop art, etc, to demonstrate how flexible the model is along with how well it captured some of her notable features and proportions.
Lahanna loves they way they turned out and comments that it's still not quite a replacement for the real thing, which I totally agree with, and is down for doing some fun stuff with it in the near future. I'll probably start putting together some halloween collections with some of our favorite models, starting with Lahanna, naturally 😈
Did I milk the hell out of the circle house or what? lmao
ngl Lahanna gave me weird looks when I was setting up for this shoot. I just told her to roll around on the ground and give me looks, I'll try not to drop the camera on you. I gotta say, tho, I really really love how this set came out.
Oh Lindsay, not afraid to get hot and bothered while getting us hot and bothered. I've mentioned it before, but this is the backyard of the Lucky house. I've been keeping tabs on the owner's new place, which is waaayyy far, and it's coming along pretty incredibly. I'm hoping I can squeeze in before it gets california cold because her interior/exterior design sense translates really well with my photography style and that, to me, is worth a wildly inconvenient round trip to her place haha.
Today's my birthday and as a gift from the disorganization gods, I just happen to come across a shitload of completely unsorted BTS footage on an old drive, some of which you've seen already, but it's kinda rad taking my new video editor for a spin on some of these old BTS. Anyone interested in fancam style vids? lmao
Thanks for the continued support, drinks on me tonight 😎
I wonder what this peaches n' cream or whatever style of colorization I've been falling into can be classified as? I don't know what it is, but I get into a set and messing with the colors and I always score this soft, pastel look that just freaking works. Here's Jordan in the Circle House main room. For someone that doesn't show much on social , she sure goes hard when we work together!
Man I hate having to name these sets lol. I used to name all my pictures after song names just to make it a zero-effort endeavor when working with multiple sets, but I thought switching to more descriptive names would be better.. now it's just "name - place" which, I think, is good enough?
ANYWAYS this is Hannah in probably my favorite wardrobe look and lighting combo. I picked up that top and skirt like seriously two days prior for about $5 each from goodwill, and now I can retire them both.
Boy it was fucking HOT and not just because of Heather. For this shoot I used a reflector to try and counter some of the intense sunlight coming from almost directly overhead. Typically this is one of the worst times to do an outdoor shoot, but we managed. That last shot cracks me up tho.
Speaking of Lahanna - Her and I had to go ham on these old steps. I wanted to capture the contrast of those chipped stairs with the heavy contrast of her tattoos and this strappy lingerie she brought with her, and I nailed it imo. These types of old disposable camera/flash style shoots really create a raw look that I love. Lahanna is fine af too, which helps ofc.
So AI Heather and I went out to a virtual sunflower field to do a virtual shoot and loooooook! Real Heather hit me up a few days ago wondering if I had any more AI content that I was working on, samples, test renders, etc. I had just happened to be working on the AI version of her, fine tuning and such, and decided to pop it into a fairly common scene that I *knew* there'd be some existing data for. Meaning - I never did a shoot with Heather in a sunflower field, but I know there are plenty of pictures of sunflower fields in the core AI dataset (i.e. it's "memory") so it could take MY images of her and merge them with this sunflower field concept to create the above images. Anyways, nerd shit, virtual beauty, virtual tiddies, etc.
As an aside, but related, Lahanna is VERY interested in doing some AI work as well. So I may have some stuff to share from that very soon, too!
This past week I swung by and helped ol' Lindsay pack up the rest of her stuff so she could move out to the farm in norcal. We threw back a bottle of wine (in more ways than one) and packed up as much stuff into bins as we could before calling it a night. Naturally, we got a bunch of photos on the way out because that's just how we are, haha. Another set from that night, featuring Lindsay doing Lindsay things to that poor unsuspecting bottle lol.
American holiday today, hope those who celebrate get to eat some good food and drink profusely.
A very spiritual aesthetic for your sunday. Bible study, we'll call it, with Britni as your study partner. No one quite knows how to turn it on quite like she does, tbh, and while she's not doing 'nudes' technically, she sure is giving sexy af tits-out energy here. She lives pretty out there, but she has a close friend that has a shared interest in modeling, and she looks **just as beautiful as Britni** does. This is the last of the Britni content, btw, you guys think I should explore more here with her and her friend? 👀
My girl @lindsaylanoche said she wants to set aside a day to just shoot kink stuff after seeing this set. We waited until dark, I stuck an LED panel to the cold shoe mount on my camera, she threw on a robe, and we snuck down to a utility washroom in her apartment building's basement and starting going nuts. Linz's confidence and sexiness is unmatched here. She said she's been wanting to shoot in this space since she moved in, so we waited until she was moving out to desecrate it lol
If you didn't know, @jordanwestpet has her own approach to content. She's an adult industry vet who works insanely hard at her business. When she walked into the bathroom, she asked if I had already shot in the tub and I said "yeah, like, everyone has" so she immediately vetoed that and suggested we shoot the standing shower (in the same bathroom) instead. Now, I avoided shooting it before because it didn't quite have the character of the clawfoot, but Jordan's insistence made me take a step back and try to find a better approach. I decided to slap on the Sony 55mm for a reliable focus and tighter frame, and to keep me from having to get literally in the shower with not waterproof gear. I knew the shower, as a whole, looked too normy, but tight shots with more emphasis on freezing the movement of the water across Jordan's various parts *should* work. And I feel like it did!
P.S. have I been doing feet pics correctly for you feet appreciators? You can tell me in the DMs no judge just want to know if I'm hitting the right notes here lol
I don't think I've seen @inkedbratlala captured on camera looking like she's having an absolute blast like she is in these, and I think I deserve at least 15% credit for this haha.
For this clawfoot tub set I had my high power continuous LED light shooting straight up into the corner of the bathroom, which then cast this very broad and soft light around the room. With Lahanna I gotta have sets that I can just pop up and shoot quickly because she likes to shoot *many* looks in a short period of time. I chose this one light setup for that reason, quick/simple and the photos are easy to process.
Okay, well, why not just go through all the bathroom sets in a row so y'all can see what I'm saying when I say that each one is the same, but different (but still same)?
Here we interrupt @hannahsphere reading *squints eyes* a book. After a moment she puts it aside and then gives us a full tour of her incredible tattoo collection.
For the lighting I stuck two LED panels on either side of the bathroom, which was on the outer rim of the circle house, so it was weeeeirdly shaped and allowed for lots of room to stash lights. It's late evening but the sky is still very bright so I pulled the blackouts to maintain some control over the light.
I have been a busy busy busy man, besides speedrunning sexing up my favorite Githyanki, I managed to get through a HUGE chunk of the Circle House sets and I'm ready to unleash a barrage every freaking day this week!
You're gonna see a lot of this clawfoot tub, but each one is lit and processed very differently to better match the vibe of the model featured. @heathermoni owns this aesthetic with her gorgeous natural face and actually getting fully submerged for that true "lady in the lake" look.
Now I'm gonna brb because I need to schedule the rest of this week's posts haha
Most models will want a sip of wine or a smoke prior to shooting but @lindsaylanoche always goes the distance with cooking up some *amazing* meal every time I come over to make some content. No complaints here.
