Why Is He Obsessed With Fun-Bags?
Questions overheard at work.
NOTE: It seems that Substack, takes issue with the word “Boobs”, in the title of a post? The original title of this essay was, “Why Is He Obsessed with Boobs?” After I posted this, it did not show up in my feed, my note, re-posting it, did not show up in my feed, there is usually a banner at the top of my feed, with the titles of not only my latest post, but the posts of people I follow, except for this post. I cannot find it anywhere on Substack. If the title was against Substack TOS, I would have expected to receive notification from the system, instead, it seems to have been shadow-banned. Not sure if I like this.
Look, I like boobs, as much as the next guy, but this question was more in jest than serious.
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More than a year ago, we had a series of sculptures come through the shop that featured nude, or semi-nude female forms. Some of the sculptures were gorgeous, and had very good prices at auction, some were cheap (almost comical). Regardless, it was my job to take pictures of them, besides, it’s ART!
The figure that I will show you now was made out of bronze. It is approximately 30” tall. Sadly, I no longer have the finished (edited) shots, these are the shots straight out of the camera. I figured it would be good to see Behind-The-Scenes.
This is my typical shooting set-up, with a gridded strip box shooting from above. You can also see some home-made V-flat bounce cards on the side, surrounding the sculpture. The V-flats are very easy to make: take a piece of foam-core, score one side down the middle, but do NOT cut all the way through. Crack the foam-core along the cut, taking care to keep the other side from tearing. That’s it! I use these two V-flats so often that I’d hate to think how many more lights I would need to rig to duplicate the effect. If you look at how I placed these V-flats; the bounce on the left is sitting on the desk, the bounce on the right is lifted.
This Thai Dancer, was sold at auction, but I also used it as a prop for a jewelry auction that was coming up just after the Dancer was sold. The pictures that will follow are the edited versions. Most of them were shot with this same lighting set-up. Many of them will show boobs, hence the question asked by co-workers.
I have mentioned before how much I enjoy finding something in the shop, from another auction, and using that as a prop for shooting jewelry; this was one of my favorites.
Normally, I try not to distract from the piece of jewelry, but in this case I figured that it was alright to use the Dancer, as it added a certain cachet.
When I first started with the auction house, I was told that most of the jewelry that they auctioned was sold to dealers, or other re-sellers, not to end-users. This meant that the hammer prices were lower than they should have been. What they wanted me to do was, feature the jewelry in such a way that it made the end-users want to pay more than the re-sellers were willing.
I looked at this set-up and thought that any woman, looking for a necklace, might see this picture and envision the whole thing sitting on her dresser. always try to provide alternate views of nice pieces, so I have two other shots to show you of this necklace; one shot is more “traditional”.
What follows, are some other pieces posed on the Thai Dancer.
These next two are of the same bracelet, shown twice.
You can see where the quip about me being obsessed with boobs comes from. The auction house turns down items that they consider to be prurient, but this jewelry auction was classy, damnit!
It showed up on my feed this morning as boobs. It's still there. Images look great on big screen. Elegant.
Love the shots. Very classy and a great way to show off the jewelry. The standard velvet bust pictures get quite boring after a while. Matching jewelry to various statues is a fantastic idea to feature the jewelry and can lead prospects to perhaps look at the auctions for the displaying figurines. Brilliant!