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IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ: Updated Patreon Rewards

Greetings, my beloved Patrons!

I've finally updated my Patreon rewards system. Please take a look at yourself below, but here are the most important changes in the upcoming projects; all the parts released by this date will follow the previous rewarding system and people will get their cards. (really!)

But to gather the most important changes:

$2 pledges AND ABOVE will receive more perks as suggested by you, my beloved Patrons. Besides what we've used to post here ...

Watermark-free, Full HD Wallpapers (1920 px) + few extras

Hey y'all! As I am preparing the short intro clip for future Project L's videos, I gathered a bunch of images from my Lightroom's libraries to be included in the video.

This got me thinking: why on earth would I just keep these things stashed on my hard drives instead of sharing the joy? Well, here are some Full HD images for you to enjoy.

These images are not cropped to have the default 16:9 ratio that most monitors have, but instead have their original 3:2 ratio so that you're not losi...

Update: What is going on right now?

I'm being busy, honest! At the moment I am

 - Choosing a wide variety of higher-resolution photos for you to use as wallpapers and such. For this time being, they're only full HD width, but I'm looking into more resolutions.

- Designing a proper intro video for future Project Ls. The current one is very bland and does not tell a story.

- In contact with both Miia and Jonna about the schedule of our next shoot. Unfortunately they have also lives to live, so it'll take a while t...

Everything has arrived - Finally

The most important part of our move - getting our belongings on their place - is finally ready. Looks like our computers survived the move, as did the latex! Now we're taking a brief pause and celebrating our long process of moving back home during the weekend. In other words, we're gonna get wasted.

Home in Finland - Finally!

We finally got the keys to our brand new, albeit extremely tiny, apartment in central Järvenpää. And as they say, home is where your 127.0.0.1 is - and it just happens to be quite fast here. In theory we could host 4K latex streams with zero lag, provided we had a sufficient recording equipment to do so. For now we'll probably have to keep using regular full HD though. But we're home!

Thoughts about future: Behind the scenes?

I've been thinking about Project L a lot recently, as I'm _still_ waiting for my stuff - including all my latex and computer equipment - to arrive from Malta. Thinking is all I really can do.

Let's talk about behind the scenes of Project L.

Ever since the beginning I've had this so-and-so feeling about the behind the scenes of Project L, because in my opinion they devalue the project quite a lot. What I mean by this is that in my opinion it reveals quite a lot of the "magic" behind the s...

Project L: Part 62 – Tampere Arboretum in Autumn

It's here, we're not square! I'm actually round. Or a blob. Oh well.

The most important thing is that the 62nd Project L is here and we're finally in Finland. For good.

The next project will have to wait for a while, to be honest; our belongings are still on their way from Malta to Finland, and should arrive by the end of October (instead of this week, which was promised to us – damn!).

For now, we're officially homeless, but on the 1st of November our new apartment will be ready...

WIP: Part 62 #2

Considering how unhappy I was with the awful, gloomy light and whatnot on the 62nd part, I'm starting to be quite content with the end results.

Despite all this, I feel that without Didi Ou these images would be dull as a butter knife. The framing is predictable, falling within the thirds of the images' lines and the backgrounds change very little.

This photoshoot could've been much better, in my opinion, should we had someone else directing the stream camera for us. I'm gonna need to pe...

WIP: 62nd part

Despite the weather being awful and us fiddling around with the stream, I believe that we managed to capture a few images showing the Finnish autumn.

I'm still not quite happy of how dark the images were and how little light I was able to capture on the camera's sensor. It's not just that the images are dark, but that the sky is so gloomy, as are the backgrounds; with light editing I can bring up the colours of the skin and the shine of latex, but I cannot make a dark environment look happier ...

PROJECT L LIVE – The VOD

The video on demand for yesterday's stream is right here!

Unfortunately, due to technical issues, the stream was not sent to the link I had previously sent, but instead created its own address even though I had adjusted the settings to do the exact opposite.

We've now learned from this and must apologise to any of you waiting patiently in the previously provided URL. We're going to do better next time!

Although, admittedly, we can't really drag the camera everywhere with us unless ...

LIVE STREAM from the 62nd Project L

The day has come when we can actually test out hosting a live stream while we're shooting a Project L!

You can join us around European afternoon at https://www.youtube.com/c/Photour/live and chat with us silly beings.

Big Updates – Finally in Finland!

ATTENTION: I accidentally selected the "Charge patrons" for this post initially. I have now removed this and created a new post, because of course I'm not going to charge you for plain updates in text. Sorry for the initial confusion!

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Finland, Finland, Finland... we're finally here, and boy does it feel good. There are couple of things that are still not so good, though; we don't have a home, I've got no monetary income and our belongings are still on their way from M...

Upcoming updates to Project L's Patreon

Hey guys, we're finally moving back to Finland at the start of next week!

I wrote a long post about the move to Photour's Facebook page, where I'm going a bit into detail with our planned additions and focus to our Patreon page.

I'll start making the changes and additions within the next few weeks, as it will take around two to three weeks to get our latex gear shipped to Finland (seriously, I've got around 30–40 kilograms of latex, it's expensive to ship).

With this, I'll also b...

So... we're going back to Finland

Yup.

Long story short, we're moving back to Finland because we miss the damn place, its environment and green things so much. Also Mediterranean work culture ain't suited for us in all honesty.

What this means is that we'll be shooting much more latex again! Also reintroducing Miia, our most-sought-after model back to the project as soon as we just have time to shoot.

Now we're looking for full-time positions because Finland is bloody expensive. Gotta find out some communications s...

VIDEO: Project L: Part 61 - Behind the scenes

While the vide still remains unpublished to common folk, you all, my Patrons, the most important people in the world, can see the video already!

Project L: Part 61 - The 4000-year-old city

Finally I managed to find a spot of time where I have actually time and a creative feeling at the same time, so that I can finish editing the 61st Project L.

The wait is over now, and lo behold – latex gloves have also made a comeback!

It was so wonderful shooting in Mdina. The city's ancient walls, architecture and everything alike compared to Vanja's shiny latex catsuit creates a wonderful contrast between the elements.

Project L: Part 60 - Behind the scenes

It ain't no easy thing living in Malta. The heat gets to you as it creeps up and your electricity bills are skyhigh – and it's still too warm to wear latex even at home.

Damn.

But it'll get colder, we've told. This weekend will be coldest in weeks, with temperatures going down to 30 Celsius. It hasn't been this non-deadly-heat for so long, can't wait to not bake my head when walking the dog!

When the colder weather finally arrives, we've got so many plans for us; motorcycling, ch...

WIP: 61st part

More work in progress images from the 61st part... Woo!

WIP: Part 61

Another sneak peek of the 61st part before I release the 60 part's BTS images. I really like the contrast between Mdina's beige-brown walls and Vanja's purple catsuit.

WIP: 61st part

There's still ongoing editorial action with the 60th part's behind the scenes images, but I couldn't resist starting to browse through yesterday's photoshoot's images.

Here's a sneak peek from the purple catsuit worn by Vanja, in front of the Mdina Gate in... well, Mdina.

Shooting the 61st part

What's this? Another Project - and so soon?! It's true! We had another photoshoot with Vanja, who was wearing a plum, almlst forgotten catsuit donated by Paul over a year ago.

VIDEO from 60th part is out now!

The behind the scenes video from the 60th part is out right about now, shot with a GoPro Hero5 strapped on top of my camera to allow me to focus more on the stills instead of switching settings between video and still photos in my Canon 1DX.

Admittedly, 1DX has a superior video quality, but I think the GoPro has waaaay better quality than its predecessor made by Sony.

Opinions? Please do share!

Photo from our last stream

Week ago we had our stream. I took a couple of photos before our actual gaming action. One of them turned quite lovely, so it was up to me to share the photo with y'all on Patreon before anywhere else!

Those missing their cards: URGENT

Hey y'all! As I've stated before, I've had huge issues with sending the cards (mainly due to being a lazy-ass procrastinator).

If you're still missing a batch of your cards, please send me an e-mail or a private message if you haven't yet done so; I'd like to replace the missing cards with a poster of your favourite Project L image, should this be okay with you; if not, please let me also know!

I'm not going to set an arbitrary deadline on when to contact me, but it'd be nice to order pi...

Project L: Part 60 - Holiday in Tampere

Finland.

Oh, Finland.

I miss you so.

It's nice sitting here in Malta, where it's warm and where it's wonderful to drive a motorcycle around – but I still miss Finland. A lot.

It's so much easier to shoot latex in Finland where there's more space, more tolerable temperatures and more people to shoot latex with. Not that there's not people willing to dress in latex in Malta – quite the opposite – but in Finland there are so many friends; friends who I haven't seen in ages...

WIP: Part 60

Part 60 of Project L has been almost edited through, but still some small adjustments are required.

Here's a photo, work in progress.

Short Patreon-only clip

Before anything more is done, here's a quick behind the scenes clip. A complete video is coming, of course, but here's a small sample before anywhere else!

This clip was shot with my new GoPro Hero5, to enhance the quality. Going to look into exporting the files at 2.7K resolution in the future.

BTS: Part 60

As I'm in the process of editing the images, here's the first sneak peek of the 60th Project L we shot back in Finland with Leila and Didi Ou, two wonderful girls who've both had a huge effect in my life.

Visiting back in Finland showed me how much I really miss my beautiful country. I'd really want to pursue the career in latex photography, as it's the only thing I really want to do in my life. I mean, I've got to be lucky to get a good job as a videographer, but I'm still co...

Going live in two hours!

We're going live in just two hours on YouTube; playing video games, discussing life and enjoying refreshing beverages.

As my Patrons, you're specially invited to join and chat with us at https://www.youtube.com/c/PhotourOy/live at 18:00 CET.

Update! Shooting Project L with Didi Ou

While we're visiting Finland, we headed over to Tampere to shoot another Project L with Didi Ou. Short clip at Instagram!