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« Reply #475 on: November 06, 2011, 10:05:01 am » |
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« Reply #476 on: November 06, 2011, 10:55:46 am » |
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I wouldn't express it as bluntly as Vagabond Gentlemen does, but posting pictures of professional models like Lady Clankington or this Ophelia girl rather turns me away from threads like this one.
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« Reply #477 on: November 06, 2011, 11:49:40 am » |
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Yeah...hot, underboob-sporting, under-age looking, professional model, appropriating Steampunk so she and her people can cash in on it... For a start she's well over twenty one, designs and makes many of her own outfits and runs her own business. Just who did she appropriate Steampunk from exactly? I'd really like to meet this person who apparently has the copywrite on it. Whoever they are their lawyers must be exhausted! I wouldn't express it as bluntly as Vagabond Gentlemen does, but posting pictures of professional models like Lady Clankington or this Ophelia girl rather turns me away from threads like this one.
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« Reply #479 on: November 06, 2011, 07:58:03 pm » |
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Why yes we do have some fine-dressed gents in this thread! Here is my evil side.  Ummmm...I think that's not called an "evil side"...more like a brazen side, considering where all the light in the picture is hitting. Just sayin'  Xenos, you've been practicing your Flynn Rider smolder ([TM Disney's Tangled), haven't you?  As for the pro models, they are beautiful to look at but can feel too perfect sometimes to the point of not seeming real (even though I know some of them make their own costumes, which is awesome). When our own members post, it *is* more interesting because it's more relateable and the outfits tend to look more lived in, less "I put this on for the pictures with perfect lighting and makeup". At least I think so  |
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As for the pro models, they are beautiful to look at but can feel too perfect sometimes to the point of not seeming real (even though I know some of them make their own costumes, which is awesome). When our own members post, it *is* more interesting because it's more relateable and the outfits tend to look more lived in, less "I put this on for the pictures with perfect lighting and makeup". At least I think so Exactly. I was about to say the same thing. |
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« Reply #481 on: November 06, 2011, 10:36:19 pm » |
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As for the pro models, they are beautiful to look at but can feel too perfect sometimes to the point of not seeming real (even though I know some of them make their own costumes, which is awesome). When our own members post, it *is* more interesting because it's more relateable and the outfits tend to look more lived in, less "I put this on for the pictures with perfect lighting and makeup". At least I think so Exactly. I was about to say the same thing. Oh I wouldn't disagree with that either, so by all means post away. Otherwise I might feel obliged to get my man boobs out for the camera and then we'll all be sorry! |
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« Reply #482 on: November 06, 2011, 11:22:44 pm » |
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Xenos, you've been practicing your Flynn Rider smolder ([TM Disney's Tangled), haven't you? Actually... No. That's just my natural "Come Hither" look. I didna even know who Eugene WAS until about 3 months ago, when we... uh, AQUIRED Tangled so my daguter could watch it. It is currently one of our FAVORITE films. "This is the story... Of how I died." Good stuff, good stuff! PERSONALLY, I've always went for sort of a Pierce Brosnan crossed with Gavin Rosdell (Bush's lead singer) crossed with Johnny Depp (since chicks seem to get all lubed up over him for someodd reason). But yeah, nah, that's just me being me! I'll post some more of my music-y pictures in the Offtopic photothread when I get back home this evenin', y'all can see me in my natural element (i.e. on stage playing for 100+ screaming fans)! Granted, I go from looking (according to you lovely ladies) "hot" to downright demonic... But yes, my dear (still waiting to know if I can call you Vikki), your comparison to Eugene made my day-and, as per usual on this site, my day was in SERIOUS need of making! I mean, I've gone all Ziggy-Zocky Ziggy Zocky-Hoy Hoy Hoy! on muh Panama (Brandy Alexander with WHITE Creme De Caco)... It's been a long, long, HARD day. |
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« Reply #483 on: November 07, 2011, 12:07:26 am » |
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Xenos, you haves MOST effective. 'come hither' look...
I will try to post a picture next week, after the Maquerade Ball, I'm hoping that maybe a good picture will be taken..
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« Reply #484 on: November 07, 2011, 12:55:58 am » |
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On the topic of "hoping a good picture will be taken" Do you all take your own pics? Have friends do it? Go to an event hoping they don't take one while you are blinking, thereby looking stoned/asleep/idiotic? What?
Need ideas, please. I'm not a photographer. Any tips on looking decent in pictures? Becoming comfortable in front of a camera? Should this be a thread of it's own and not here?
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« Reply #485 on: November 07, 2011, 01:17:27 am » |
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Good Grief! This is what happens when one spends a weekend away from the Aetherwebs. Oh well at least we are mostly back on track. As for how my pictures are taken... well I am not a photographer either so I usually get someone else to take my pictures for me. Be it a friend or random con goer. Which is why I am having issues on the taking of that more risque photo for you psn1der. I have been working with my cameras delay, with not the greatest results, but I will keep trying! Edit: Ah Mr. Oakes has started a separate thread on the art of picture taking Lets all go over there and discuss it. That way we can leave this place for the Pinups! |
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« Reply #486 on: November 07, 2011, 01:18:32 am » |
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On the topic of "hoping a good picture will be taken" Do you all take your own pics? Have friends do it? Go to an event hoping they don't take one while you are blinking, thereby looking stoned/asleep/idiotic? What?
Need ideas, please. I'm not a photographer. Any tips on looking decent in pictures? Becoming comfortable in front of a camera? Should this be a thread of it's own and not here?
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« Reply #487 on: November 07, 2011, 01:27:54 am » |
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On the topic of "hoping a good picture will be taken" Do you all take your own pics? Have friends do it? Go to an event hoping they don't take one while you are blinking, thereby looking stoned/asleep/idiotic? What?
Need ideas, please. I'm not a photographer. Any tips on looking decent in pictures? Becoming comfortable in front of a camera? Should this be a thread of it's own and not here?
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A few tips for portraits -Natural light is usually best if at all possible -Pay attention to the background, even of you don't have much choice of background at least try to compose shots to avoid anything too distracting or the 'lam post growing out of someone's head' syndrome. -It often helps to use a large aperture (small f-number) to put the background out of focus, emphasising the subject -To take a good portrait you often need to take lots and lots of shots. Photography tends to freeze facial features in a way that look somewhat unnatural most of the time. Taking lots of shots will increase the chance that you get one at just the right moment and tends to encourage the model to relax a bit. |
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« Reply #488 on: November 07, 2011, 01:33:39 am » |
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On the topic of "hoping a good picture will be taken" Do you all take your own pics? Have friends do it? Go to an event hoping they don't take one while you are blinking, thereby looking stoned/asleep/idiotic? What?
Need ideas, please. I'm not a photographer. Any tips on looking decent in pictures? Becoming comfortable in front of a camera? Should this be a thread of it's own and not here?
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« Reply #489 on: November 07, 2011, 01:35:54 am » |
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On the topic of "hoping a good picture will be taken" Do you all take your own pics? Have friends do it? Go to an event hoping they don't take one while you are blinking, thereby looking stoned/asleep/idiotic? What?
Need ideas, please. I'm not a photographer. Any tips on looking decent in pictures? Becoming comfortable in front of a camera? Should this be a thread of it's own and not here?
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A few tips for portraits -Natural light is usually best if at all possible -Pay attention to the background, even of you don't have much choice of background at least try to compose shots to avoid anything too distracting or the 'lam post growing out of someone's head' syndrome. -It often helps to use a large aperture (small f-number) to put the background out of focus, emphasising the subject -To take a good portrait you often need to take lots and lots of shots. Photography tends to freeze facial features in a way that look somewhat unnatural most of the time. Taking lots of shots will increase the chance that you get one at just the right moment and tends to encourage the model to relax a bit. Thank you, Narsil. It's good to know it's not my features that are unnatural. It's the fault of the camera. |
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« Reply #490 on: November 07, 2011, 03:23:34 am » |
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Yeah...hot, underboob-sporting, under-age looking, professional model, appropriating Steampunk so she and her people can cash in on it... For a start she's well over twenty one, designs and makes many of her own outfits and runs her own business. Just who did she appropriate Steampunk from exactly? I'd really like to meet this person who apparently has the copywrite on it. Whoever they are their lawyers must be exhausted! Heh, heh, heh...Ok brother, I'm letting you in on my joke...that lil smiley at the end there was a smile of mischief, cuz I essentially distilled the negative sentiments of year-ago thread about that VERY picture into a sentence. I know she's over 21, she just looks young. Nabakovian young. I know she makes lots of her own clothes, and all of that. There were many comments from 'those in the know' on both sides of the fence regarding whether Ophelia had a vested interest in Steampunk or if she were just trying to make the quick cash-in money that glues-cogs-on-trash folks attempt. There were arguments both ways on "Steamclass" vs. "Steamtrash". There were plenty of pro-Ophelia posts about that pic all through the tread, too. Essentially, she has fans and haters, the way it comes when you have exposure. Ain't no biggie...  |
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« Reply #491 on: November 07, 2011, 04:00:55 am » |
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Actually, she has done many, many actual Steampunk and Neo-Victorian outfits and photoshoots. That one gets around the most because, hey! Underboob!
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Xenos, you've been practicing your Flynn Rider smolder ([TM Disney's Tangled), haven't you? But yes, my dear (still waiting to know if I can call you Vikki), your comparison to Eugene made my day-and, as per usual on this site, my day was in SERIOUS need of making! I mean, I've gone all Ziggy-Zocky Ziggy Zocky-Hoy Hoy Hoy! on muh Panama (Brandy Alexander with WHITE Creme De Caco)... It's been a long, long, HARD day. I am glad it was taken in the spirit it was intended - the highest compliment! Eugene can smolder at me alllll day long....so I was struck to see a real live person embody that same quality . Drink up my friend, smolder on. You make call me Vikki if I may call you Xene as in the Greek vocative case (both E's are long) because I never get to use my Greek minor from college EVER and it amuses me to say the ancient equivalent of the modern phrase "Hey stranger". (If you knew me, you would know what a very great privilege granting the use of any nicknames, as I *AM* Victoria, hear me roar!) And I will gladly exchange my Roland for any keytars you happen to have lying around... |
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Xenos, you've been practicing your Flynn Rider smolder ([TM Disney's Tangled), haven't you? But yes, my dear (still waiting to know if I can call you Vikki), your comparison to Eugene made my day-and, as per usual on this site, my day was in SERIOUS need of making! I mean, I've gone all Ziggy-Zocky Ziggy Zocky-Hoy Hoy Hoy! on muh Panama (Brandy Alexander with WHITE Creme De Caco)... It's been a long, long, HARD day. I am glad it was taken in the spirit it was intended - the highest compliment! Eugene can smolder at me alllll day long....so I was struck to see a real live person embody that same quality . Drink up my friend, smolder on. You make call me Vikki if I may call you Xene as in the Greek vocative case (both E's are long) because I never get to use my Greek minor from college EVER and it amuses me to say the ancient equivalent of the modern phrase "Hey stranger". (If you knew me, you would know what a very great privilege granting the use of any nicknames, as I *AM* Victoria, hear me roar!) And I will gladly exchange my Roland for any keytars you happen to have lying around... You may call me whatever you wish-most people usually go with "Heartless," "Cold," "Unfeeling Bastard," or my PERSONAL favorite, "Heartless Cold Unfeeling Bastard!" And the humor of effectively sayin' "Howdy Stranger" is most amusing to me, what with my normal greeting for close friends is something along "Oi, YOU!" Aye, Eugene was a blast-it was a hard choice between him and Maximus, but in the end, Eugene won out because he gets to bang the hot chick the girl at the end. Would that I HAD a keytar... I was looking at an older Roland model (one quite similar to the one Rick Wakeman used in 1979 during the "Yesshows" live performance of "Starship Trooper." The duel between him and Howe was AMAZING. But I'm derailing the thread with music again... Bl**din' hell, see?!?!? Music is pretty much my EVERYTHING! Kindest Regards, ~Xene, the Heartless Cold Unfeeling Bastard (there really IS a story behind that-but this is not the place...) |
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« Reply #495 on: November 07, 2011, 06:36:40 am » |
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Lovely! Glad to know there are other Steampunk Punks around. I have been considering dye...my hair is so dark that nothing usually stays in it. Maybe if I am bored later I will try some Steampunk Punk.... Edit: Tried...failed...thank god nobody takes SteamPUNK literally...geez....my old Canadian tuxedo just does not work well with a vest and top hat.... |
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« Reply #499 on: November 07, 2011, 09:57:44 am » |
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Yeah...hot, underboob-sporting, under-age looking, professional model, appropriating Steampunk so she and her people can cash in on it... For a start she's well over twenty one, designs and makes many of her own outfits and runs her own business. Just who did she appropriate Steampunk from exactly? I'd really like to meet this person who apparently has the copywrite on it. Whoever they are their lawyers must be exhausted! Heh, heh, heh...Ok brother, I'm letting you in on my joke...that lil smiley at the end there was a smile of mischief, cuz I essentially distilled the negative sentiments of year-ago thread about that VERY picture into a sentence. I know she's over 21, she just looks young. Nabakovian young. I know she makes lots of her own clothes, and all of that. There were many comments from 'those in the know' on both sides of the fence regarding whether Ophelia had a vested interest in Steampunk or if she were just trying to make the quick cash-in money that glues-cogs-on-trash folks attempt. There were arguments both ways on "Steamclass" vs. "Steamtrash". There were plenty of pro-Ophelia posts about that pic all through the tread, too. Essentially, she has fans and haters, the way it comes when you have exposure. Ain't no biggie... No worries mate. I should probably just be a bit more considerate sometimes is all. I wasn't posting pics to be off putting to anybody. I'm a bit of a visual learner myself so I tend to find looking at the pros work quite useful, even though it can be over perfected at times. I wouldn't post a pic of Katy Perry or any of her ilk in Sp gear if it happened, because I would consider that band wagon jumping. But I think those two women have genuine credible connections to the scene. Still nice one Narsil for the tips, and D.Oakes for starting a thread on photographic techniques. Perhaps even I may get that one in a million pic I'd be willing to post eventually.  |
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