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Working with water, behind the scenes
🕑 Added 2025-03-28 21:39:30 +0000 UTCI hope you're not one of those who don't like to look behind the curtain in the theater, because I'm going to break the glamour.
I just got the first full look at my Barb Wire photoshoot, and wow… this is gonna be a brutal selection process! 😆
There are so many gorgeous water shots, but also way too many where I look like a mess—giant flared nostrils, puffed-up cheeks holding my breath, eyes doing the absolute most (one open, one shut, total face chaos). Basically, stuff like this:
Working Pin-up shoots with water can create stunning, cinematic images, beautiful reflections, intimate vibes, but it can also mercilessly ruin any "blue steel” Zoolander moment you were aiming for💀
I’ve been modeling for years, but I don’t consider myself a professional model. I don’t work with agencies or within the industry. I just have decided to become the face of my own creative projects.... But out there some rare, otherworldly humans (a small percentage of models, actors, and random people who can live off their image) really do look flawless everytime, from every angle... The rest of mortals? We just learn our faces—our best angles, the perfect smirk, the badass stare, the “neutral-but-not-actually-neutral” expression (very different from an actual resting face!). That’s why so many stunning models look even more stunning in photos—it’s literally a business about studying poses, angles, and how the light hits just right.
Cosplay takes that even further—you tweak your features with makeup, prosthetics, even eyebrow shaping to match the character. And let me teel you it’s not about “fake,” it’s just perfectionism, the magic of crafting an artistic image being your own canvas. That’s why I always say: what you see in my photos isn’t 100% my real-life self. My photos represent 100% my craft and work, but Vampisaurus does not look always the same as Sofia. I don't look in pajamas (or hunched over my workbench sewing for hours) the way I look posing for a pinup shooting... I don’t know how to be sexy unless I’m in costume or performing burlesque on stage—that’s just how it is and I embrace it.
And water? Water doesn’t care about your modeling tricks. It takes all that hard-earned posing knowledge and throws it out the window. There’s no glamorous way to spit out water when all of a sudden it’s flooding your nose. No flattering way to squint unevenly because one eye got hit harder than the other. Suddenly, you’re making faces like you’re mid-sneeze under the flash, or your nostrils are expanding dramatically to prepare for a gasp. And let me tell you, I see those pics and they will not make the final cut, but honestly? I love them, they’re hilarious and so real😆
Is there a conclusion to all this? I don't know...
Sometimes a wet wig doesn't bring glamour, it just looks like a raccoon corpse on your face, but you stil have to make it work.
Comments
Jimbotron
It might be fun to have a "bloopers" set collecting some of your funnier outtake shots from various photo sets.
Abraham Limpo
Great post and so true! Water in action is super tricky to capture it right!
