Matt Nicholson's DUMMIES' GUIDE TO
TIT TORTURE PHOTOGRAPHY - Part 4
Matt Nicholson is the Publisher of Darker Pleasures, the Internet's only e-zine that focuses on breast bondage and tit torture.You can find this article -- fully illustrated with high quality photographs instead of the art miniatures -- plus the photo galleries they came from, the full-sized, original art, and over 20,000 other original photographs, stories, video clips, and much more erotic breast and nipple torture, when you subscribe to Darker Pleasures.
(Continued from The Dummies Guide... Part 3) Is it Real, or is it Memorex?
When we're walking down the sidewalk, trying not to get caught staring at every tit that jiggles past, just the sight of a firm, perfectly shaped breast can set Mr. Happy into overdrive. Add a little flash of cleavage, or - eureka - the top of an areola, and we're ducking for an alcove until the pup tent pole retracts. That may all be well and good for lunch-break voyeurism, but when you hop on the Internet with credit card in hand, this stuff's as common as smog in Dallas. Your job, as a photographer of tortured tits, is to show the world the incredible variety of shapes and colors a breast can turn.
At the risk of giving away the farm here, and possibly disillusioning some of our members who'd prefer to think all our sessions end with a visit to the emergency room, here are my ABC(DEFG)s of tit torture picture taking:
1. Ask - Test your model's limits, or better yet, let her. Ask her to grope, tug, and twist to her limits for a bit before you shoot so you'll both know what she can handle. Tell her what you want and let her try it out on herself first. Most gals can take a whole lot more than they think if they know what to expect. Even if a particular torment sounds as if it might send her to the local nunnery, you'll often find that she can find ways of giving you the shot you want if you'll let her figure her own tits and nipples out with the pliers or pitchfork before you, or your faithful assistant, start applying it to them.
2. Basics - Yeah, I know I said I wouldn't talk about 'em here, but that doesn't mean you can escape the truth. Know your basic photography techniques. Make sure you have the right lighting for wherever indoor shots you're shooting and that you know how natural light works. Use a wide variety of angles, not just eighty-seven shots that are cranked out by using your auto-rewind and moving the lens every tenth of an inch. Change your distances. Shoot stuff up close and personal and then back to well-composed full-body shots. If you're using digital, use the highest resolution you can. The very minimum should be 1024 by 768. If you're using 35mm, know your shutter speeds and f-stops. Oh, and focus the danged things and know what a tripod is.
You can't type "basic photography" + techniques into the search engine without getting a jillion good returns, but I decided to be a nice guy and find a few for you...
Photo.net E-Photozine ACD Systems Cameras Co. 3. Color - Breasts and nipples tend to darken when they're tied up, and tit torture people really like purple. You need to try to give em what they want, but you also need to be very careful while you're working your way through the softer shades of lavender to midnight blue. Models like to keep their body parts even more than your audience likes the ultra-violet spectrum. Finding a balance between roping decorating and gangrene can be a challenge, but if the audience doesn't get pictures where the color leans at least a little toward the darker end of the spectrum, then you'll get nasty e-mail. You and she can make the call, but a little color is unavoidable if you're serious about breast bondage.
When you tie titties, take advantage of the time you have to spend behind the viewfinder as the little darlings slowly darken until the agreed upon shade is reached. Then click off a quick set of purplish breasts and get the ropes off. Give the boobs a break. It's easier to do with nipples, since they can be wrapped quickly so they look like meatballs and then unwrapped pretty easily. Ballooning the whole tit is more time consuming, but the shots will be worth it. In either case, though, be very careful with long-term binding. You want her to come back.
Another popular color for breasts is red, especially if the shoot calls for whipping or spanking, major groping or twisting, and so on. Simulating the wicked beating of a pair of 38Q chimichangas with a bullwhip lacks anything vaguely resembling realism if those massive mounds end up as ivory white at the end of the shoot as they were before the first lash fell.
One good trick for adding color without waking the neighbors is to use a paddle-ball paddle or paint stirrer. Repeatedly tapping the whites of the breast with something hard and flat, or pinching the skin with the fingers like women used to do their cheeks before the advent of rouge will color them up nicely before the flogger or baseball bat shots.
If you're good with make-up, feel free to give it a try, but only the best make-up people can make white breasts look a convincing natural purple or red with make-up. Generally they just look like white breasts with make-up on 'em.
The same applies to you digital wizbangs out there. Changing the color of a well-bound boob or choked nipple in Photoshop may work wonders, but most 'Net surfers who know anything about content can spot the fingers of Adobe in the works from a mile away. If you do it, make it good or make sure your target audience doesn't care.
4. Deform - There's a big difference between decorating and deforming. Whatever you do should change the shape of those puppies. If you're scene calls for slapped tits and she doesn't want 'em really slapped, at least make sure the flat of the hand, or the cane, or the golf club, is pressed into the target so that it looks as if it's been slapped sideways or cleaved. You can press in slowly until the breast's owner says whoa and then take the shot. The pictures actually tend to come out with better focus than by yelling "fore" and swinging or practicing your tennis follow-through for real.
A clothespin that's obviously been sprung out so far that you have to pray it'll hang on for the shot won't fool anyone. Ropes tied with the precise skill of a seasoned sailor above and below the tits might make your Scoutmaster happy, but they won't do a thing for folks that know their tortured tits.
On the same note, make sure that fingers sink in and some ample flesh flows between them when groping's called for. Tits should gain a couple of inches or more when stretching is the idea. And make 'em look as much like State Fair Taffy as you can when the scene says to torque a nipple. If you don't, you might as well sell the shots for a quarter a pop to one of those fluff sites and go stock up on pork-n-beans.
5. Expertise - Know your stuff when it comes to tormenting tatas for the camera. I can't possibly stress this enough. Your reputation with the models is the very least that's on the line. Read up on the subject of safe breast punishment. There are tons of resources out there that'll keep you and your models safe, and give you some great ideas to boot. Cue a shameless plug of my Breast Punishment Primer, which just happens to list a dozen great resources at the end.
But by the time you get to 'em you won't need 'em.
(Continued in The Dummies Guide... Part 5)
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