Hello my Sweethearts!
How were you this days? ) I hope you are not overdoing yourself and taking proper care of your health. Always remember to rest good and enjoy every minute of your hobby )
As you know I finished shooting Shani photoshoot, some sneak-peek from which you saw in Discord. For now, I'm fully working on post-production and burning with passion to make it look great, because it was very complicated and hard shoot )
Today, I want to share with small inside story from this shoot, how it was and what it was like )
Firstly, I was planning to shoot Shani project in August. There is not much time in Siberia to shoot outdoors, so I needed to hurry.
As I mentioned in one of my posts, the crucial element for this shoot was to find one specific prop - boat. I really liked this FAMOUS scene in boat from Hearts of Stone, I assume you too ) I recieved few questions "will there be "boat shots"?", so it encouraged me to search hard )
So it was a first problem.
Turned out, there was no wooden boat in my city and nearby villages. Fishermen here prefer inflatable or plastic boats. There were no boats even in public parks, where people could sail on them and have a good romantic time )
Second problem - there were no good locations in my city for indoors part.
Tao found few places (cafes, restourants) that might perfectly suit for the shoot, but they demand high rent price with no private time to shoot "explicit" stuff )
On that time we decided to shoot Dryad, since she is mostly forest creature, and start searching in nearby city. Luckily we found everything )
Reality was harsh when we came to "boat place" ) Place, where we were expecting beautiful lake, almost fully dryed out, with garbage and mud everywhere. It hurts my heart how people ruin what they have...


As I wrote in Discord, it took about 4-5 hours to shoot this part. Difficulties were everywhere: starting from boats full of water and tied with chains to coast, mud all over us, pervy strangers and 10 C cold )
Funny thing: we were making one specific shot, trying to hide "goodies" at the same time with strangers behind ) Here how it looked:

Most thing, we were worried about, is the health condition of our model after long cold outdoors shoot. In the end she was fine, so no worries )
I can't say, that all difficulties, hit hard on us. I think it was fun to solve problems one after another, and reforged all feelings in great final product ) The only problem we couldn't solve fully: strong wind which blew away our light sources muliple times in lake and mud. )
This was my small inside story from Shani photoshoot, hope it was interesting and entertaining! I'll try to write more stories from shoots in future, so stay tuned to my updates )
Have a great mood and thank you very much for your support!