Archive for June, 2007
model : Anaïs
095 images available on captiveculture.com
back in 2005, second shooting with Anaïs. After a long bondage session and discussion, she wanted to test something new… what’s better than a schoolgirl skirt to be spanked ?
I remember about this day. First, I got a long fight with new ropes and, speaking with Anaïs, I discovered she would like to test spanking. I am always anxious when a model accepts to be spanked. Indeed, there is a real difference between bondage and spanking. Even if you get some pain being bound, that’s slow and not agressive. Spanking is more personal, you have to feel the pain and control your nerves. I know the result is not sure (I already had some girls who were unable to bear my slaps) and that’s the reason why I didn’t turn my camcorder on. Two reasons ; I don’t want to stop a video two minutes after the beginning and I didn’t want to create a confused atmosphere. Indeed, I was shooting alone without any assistant : spanking videos involves a game between the spanker and the spanked girl. I was not sure that Anaïs could understand I had to play the “bad guy” playing with her cheeks. I remember you it was our second shooting together, things should have been different later. So, I’ve decided to take pictures only, showing spanking’s result step by step, making discover several pain toys to this 19 years old girl : paddle, flogger, riding-crop and my hands, of course… the most funny was I spanked Anaïs for several minutes and my mind was focused on the music. Usually, when I shoot video, I don’t have any music playing. If I spank a girl for a private session, I can choose the appropriate music… but, that day, I was spanking a lovely girl listening funky music (maybe Jamiroquai live) and this was totally strange LOL Finally, everything was fine, Anaïs got a warm red ass without loosing her smile and the test was a good experience for the following spanking times :)
as I wrote few hours ago, I did another photoshop editing for one old serie. October 2002, our second shooting for Halloween : Ambre the vampire is playing with her victim Kat. Of course, my ancient Olympus camera was less efficient than a digital SLR but there are several interesting pictures anyway. Moreover, it’s always a pleasure to watch lovely girls like Ambre and Kat in a dramatic script where the Vampire appears when the Victim is sleeping. I will add those 80 images to the premium’s area on July 07 and I hope you’ll love it.
let’s begin the week-end with this very old picture (shot in 2001). 6 years ago, we did so many things since that afternoon where Kat and Greta came in a rented appartment for my 6th shooting. I remember well about this day, maybe because we did several really cool pictures. I can’t watch anymore a lot of my old pictures, mainly because I am focused on the quality/photograpy stuff, but, I don’t know why, I am always proud about this old picture I share with you today. I love the framing, the composition, the colors and the contrast between light/dark tints like an echo of the sub/dom sides. Choosing one picture, I decided to edit one old serie in premium quality today… go to work jG !
model : Thalie
090 images available on ladyfemdom.com (moved to captiveculture.com)
I was early to an appointment today, then, I found the time to drop some lines about my week-end. As I wrote before, I’ve edited another video on saturday. After what I played poker all the evening before to check my emails around midnight. Then, I got the confirmation about something I had guess few hours before receiving two security alerts. My website captiveculture was under attack and several login have been reposted in some forums dedicated to share illegal access.
I got a similar attack in December 2005 and I changed several things that make the hacker’s job a litte more difficult. But, you know it, there is no perfect system and that was just a question of time before hackers find some login combinations again. They use software able to test thousands and thousands possibilities in one minute… they only need to be patient.
I think nothing bad about these attacks. My problem is outhere. Indeed, we all work to earn some money, we all have a job and we all buy something one day. Whatever you buy : one bag, one mp3 player, one laptop, one car… who would be happy to see someone stealing the result of his work ? Piracy always existed and especially in our recent culture (music, software, movies) but I notice things changed within last two years.
I explain, when someone uses an illegal access, he gets your work but that’s all… when someone gets an illegal access and give/share this access on a public forum, he gives your work to several people… and when complete sets of pictures are reposted in these forums, they give your work to more and more people. They don’t only benefit from your work for free but they also ruin your work. I already spoke with hackers or people used to share illegal access in the past. They all think we are big companies like Universal or Microsoft and hacking us is not important. That’s totally wrong.
The truth is almost all bondage/fetish websites are runned by small companies or individuals : imagine all my websites are my own work, I do everything by myself, working alone 6 days a week in my house basement ! I only get some extra help for shooting, I have no employees and I work hard to satisfy my members and my visitors. Like I said, all bondage/fetish websites don’t generate a lot of money and each dollar is important to pay all our fees (photo stuff, models, clothes, hosting and billing companies and don’t forget taxes).
Hackers or readers, they all think these illegal repost have no consequences… I don’t think so ! When someone can get your recent productions for free, he won’t support your work subscribing to your website. Moreover, reposting pictures is slightly disrespectful for the models who appreciate to know where they appear. We could speak a lot about the consequences. I know and I understand everybody has personal reasons to not join a membership website. I remember when I lost my job 10 years ago, my first action was to cancel my membership to Jim Weather’s website because I had a lack of money. I just stopped watching his website and I waited to get some money to join later. I was too respectful about his work to use illegal access or something similar.
I’ve met and read a lot of people speaking about how internet changed, telling me that’s not easy to get good pictures and movies nowadays. I mean productions full of passion, not only exploiting fetish/bondage universe like an excuse to make porn stuff. I know one thing : those who helped to make our passion popular with aesthetic and creative artworks were individuals. They worked hard to bring us a lot of pleasure and they couldn’t do the same without any support. This is the reason why some of them already stopped, closed their website because things were too much complicated. I think that’s the future : free stuff, maybe… but it won’t be so good, worse, I think it will be old stuff because, don’t be foolish, nobody will make new productions for a dead loss. I remember when internet arrived, people were exchanging scans of old magazine in the newsgroups. I would be sad if the future would be the same : exchanging pics of closed websites.
One simple thought to conclude this post. If artists (models, photographers) are the first victims of the piracy, I know members are also affected. Indeed, some of them are blocked because their access has been illegaly used. But the truth is ALL members are concerned by some decisions taken to fight against piracy : rotation system is exactly one thing I don’t like. But, I started it several months ago for my premium features (large pics and movies) and I know one thing, today, when someone steal my content, he doesn’t take all my creations in one-time. It means all members lost full archives privilege because some people decided to use illegal access and share my artworks. That’s really really sad. One last question I have in mind. Would they accept the same treatment if they would take their own pictures ? I don’t think so. Would they love to see their girlfriend on the internet without any control on their own work ? I don’t think so. Would they appreciate to loose their job because someone dediced to ruin their work ? I don’t think so… what about you ?
