We’ve seen girls pee on a mirror, into bathtubs, and onto patios. What we haven’t seen is how they pee every day. Does the girl pull her pants to her middle thighs, or to her knees? Does she wipe from the front or the back? It would be great to have a candid camera in her bathroom to find out. I can see the news bulletin now: “Woman pees six times in the same day! Yes, six! You have to see it to believe it.”
Seriously, the photography we have today has some limitations, due to the practical constraints and effects of arranging a camera crew. A lot of natural events that would be worth recording occur at times that are unpredictable, infrequent, or inconvenient for a camera crew. Sometimes they occur over a time span that is too long for a crew to wait on. Sending out a crew requires a schedule and a plan, and that somewhat limits the events being filmed to ones that can be planned. The spontaneous and surprising events that are sometimes missed would be among the best to view, if we could capture them. Also, there are times when the presence of a camera crew changes the event being filmed. There are just more people in the room than the model or models are accustomed to.
“Candid” does not mean hidden or stealthy. There is no attempt to create the impression that the model doesn’t know she is being photographed. For our purpose, candid emphatically does not mean photos unaware or without permission. Picking some words out of Webster, candid means photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed. It means fairness, honest expression, and freedom from prior expectations. Those are things AW is already good at.
The mechanics of candid photography are less demanding those of a regular shoot. Recording equipment is set up, and then the model is left alone in the camera’s field of view. That doesn’t require artistic direction at the time of the shoot. The task of video editing can be delegated. Schedules are not as tight, because fewer people are involved. Recording sessions do not need precise starting end ending times. There can be a candid video side-line at AW, with the work almost entirely delegated to staff.
Models do not forget that the camera is there, but can become natural and spontaneous anyway. If the camera is in a model’s home, it is left there long enough for her to become comfortable with it. There are only so many things a model does in her daily routine. After a while, she is comfortable that her routine only includes things that she consents to have others see. If the camera is not in the model's home, it is somewhere else and she it taken to it, the camera does not “disappear” by long familiarity. However, there is some other means of distracting the model’s attention away from the camera. Our awareness is like a spotlight that can only illuminate a few things at a time. When awareness is riveted by one thing in particular (like a partner), other things in the environment (like cameras) drop out of awareness.
Candid photography expands the boundaries of what is practical to film. Lots of the current videos have models talking about erotic events in their lives. But they can only give vague reports. Models can’t explain how and why they act as they do with their partners. They just do. Their behavior is built into them, and clicks with some partners and not others. Later, they can’t describe what they did. There aren’t words for it. Sometimes a model can stage the event for us, or demonstrate what she did. But the report or reenactment is not as good as the original. Some of the models light up with their partners, and at no other time. So, they’re not lit up at the time of their shoot. Candid photography allows the models to put more of the original stuff on film, by expanding the time and place where the camera can go.
Then too, seeing is believing. If Pip had said that she can wet the ceiling, I wouldn’t have believed her. Seeing her actually do it on video was convincing.
The area where I would most like to see candid photography applied is boy-girl. As it stands today, AW is having some trouble with BG, and fully half of the members aren’t interested in it, some vehemently so. As I see it, the problem is that we expect BG photography to always be as it has always been. Allow the possibility that we could have something better. I think AW should go back to the boy who couldn’t perform for a camera crew. He ruined a shoot, because he couldn’t adapt to the event that the crew expected to film. The fact remains that he is having terrific sex, and would share it with us if he knew how. Candid photography gives him a way. It allows him the time and privacy to unfold his sexuality with his girl in the way that it unfolds. Most porn makers would think that we haven’t got a clue, showing simple loving couples. We might not have a clue, but what we would have instead is something sexier for being real, and much nicer to look at.
For those of us who still won’t look at BG, consider a girl lounging under a camera for hours at a time, over a period of weeks or months. That gives her time to dream up things to do and show. I’ll bet some of us would volunteer to edit raw videos.
There are two variations of candid that I like, and among us, we might think of more. Ideas are very welcome.
The first variation is to set up camera equipment in a model’s home, and then leave it there for a period of a few days to a few months, depending on what is being recorded. I imagine there are models who would be willing to snore n’ more on video, if it paid the rent. Some might even get a kick out of it. This approach uses long familiarity with the camera to get the model to drop her awareness of it.
This was my favorite idea for a long time, but I do see problems with it. There are more ways for the models to get into trouble. It is more difficult for a model to conceal a long-term photo project, than to conceal a 2-hour visit by a camera crew. A young model has young friends, who might rush into a locked room on a lark, if they can. It might also be awkward for a model to have a locked room without a good story about why it is locked. If she meets a new partner, and wants to bring her new partner to her bedroom, she’d probably stash the photo equipment in a closet, ending the shoot. For this method to work, we’d have to select models that are mature enough, and that have stable home situations.
A second variation of candid that I like, is to set up a fixed recording site, and bring models to it. I imagine that a small room in an inner-city building would be set up to function as a temporary bedroom. It has a wash room accessible only from the bedroom. The room is completely enclosed, quiet, and has a door that locks from the inside. The room is small enough that a bed mostly fills it. The room is warm enough that models do not need blankets or clothing to be comfortable. The room is also loaded up with lights and lenses. We could call this the AW photo booth. The advantages of a fixed recording site are that the environment is controlled, security is better, supervision is nearby, models are away from their home situations, the photo recording equipment can be set up optimally, and equipment resources can be concentrated on one site rather than distributed. It is also possible for an AW operator to control the zoom, pan, and focus, by remote. The disadvantage is that the models have less time to forget about the cameras. The challenge is to distract attention away from the cameras, and not have it go back. The sense of privacy has to be maintained. Cameras can’t click, flash, or make large movements that would draw attention back to the cameras. Lights can be bright, but have to be constant. The operator has to be unseen and unheard, in a different room. As for distracting attention, we’d like the models to distract each other. Once the models meld into each other, if nothing draws their attention back to their surroundings, they’re on candid camera.
So here’s the deal, (for one variation of candid). Four real-life couples are selected for a project. They report being happy, healthy, and having good sex. Their sex doesn’t wind down in 15 minutes. Instead, they like spending hours with each other. Being madly in love also helps. They’re what film makers call a “honeymoon couple” – In a crowd of 100 people, this is the couple that is almost kissing. The four couples are flown into Melbourne on 10-day vacations, paid for by AW. They are given a tour by a specially-hired hired tourist guide. Their days are filled with swimming, sight seeing, and whatever else especially appeals to the 8 models. At night, the couples are split up, with the four boys going to one hotel, and the four girls going to another. After a few days of this, with lots of company and fun things, but no opportunity to be together alone, the couples are horny. They can schedule a four-hour morning or afternoon session in AW’s photo booth, while the remaining three couples continue their tour. The couples fully understand this arrangement, including the parts about being split up at night, and why it is being done. They know this is a setup to be horny in a photo booth. It’s their end of the bargain. Their agenda is to not have an agenda. In particular, this is not some kind of acting, and is not supposed to look like porn. They are to just relax, completely alone together. Most of the models would go natural. A few can’t. I think that four couples with 10-day vacations works out about right, given one tour guide, one video operator, one photo booth, and the couple’s biological clocks. After 10 days are up, the couples can strike out on their own, extending their vacations at their expense. They will use the paid airline tickets to go home. If AW especially likes one of the couples, they can extend their stay in Melbourne for an extra 4 days. They will be given all the booth time they want, and then be sent on their way with a bonus week of hotel vouchers. Somewhere out of all that, is about 20 hours of prime video.
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Seriously, the photography we have today has some limitations, due to the practical constraints and effects of arranging a camera crew. A lot of natural events that would be worth recording occur at times that are unpredictable, infrequent, or inconvenient for a camera crew. Sometimes they occur over a time span that is too long for a crew to wait on. Sending out a crew requires a schedule and a plan, and that somewhat limits the events being filmed to ones that can be planned. The spontaneous and surprising events that are sometimes missed would be among the best to view, if we could capture them. Also, there are times when the presence of a camera crew changes the event being filmed. There are just more people in the room than the model or models are accustomed to.
“Candid” does not mean hidden or stealthy. There is no attempt to create the impression that the model doesn’t know she is being photographed. For our purpose, candid emphatically does not mean photos unaware or without permission. Picking some words out of Webster, candid means photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed. It means fairness, honest expression, and freedom from prior expectations. Those are things AW is already good at.
The mechanics of candid photography are less demanding those of a regular shoot. Recording equipment is set up, and then the model is left alone in the camera’s field of view. That doesn’t require artistic direction at the time of the shoot. The task of video editing can be delegated. Schedules are not as tight, because fewer people are involved. Recording sessions do not need precise starting end ending times. There can be a candid video side-line at AW, with the work almost entirely delegated to staff.
Models do not forget that the camera is there, but can become natural and spontaneous anyway. If the camera is in a model’s home, it is left there long enough for her to become comfortable with it. There are only so many things a model does in her daily routine. After a while, she is comfortable that her routine only includes things that she consents to have others see. If the camera is not in the model's home, it is somewhere else and she it taken to it, the camera does not “disappear” by long familiarity. However, there is some other means of distracting the model’s attention away from the camera. Our awareness is like a spotlight that can only illuminate a few things at a time. When awareness is riveted by one thing in particular (like a partner), other things in the environment (like cameras) drop out of awareness.
Candid photography expands the boundaries of what is practical to film. Lots of the current videos have models talking about erotic events in their lives. But they can only give vague reports. Models can’t explain how and why they act as they do with their partners. They just do. Their behavior is built into them, and clicks with some partners and not others. Later, they can’t describe what they did. There aren’t words for it. Sometimes a model can stage the event for us, or demonstrate what she did. But the report or reenactment is not as good as the original. Some of the models light up with their partners, and at no other time. So, they’re not lit up at the time of their shoot. Candid photography allows the models to put more of the original stuff on film, by expanding the time and place where the camera can go.
Then too, seeing is believing. If Pip had said that she can wet the ceiling, I wouldn’t have believed her. Seeing her actually do it on video was convincing.
The area where I would most like to see candid photography applied is boy-girl. As it stands today, AW is having some trouble with BG, and fully half of the members aren’t interested in it, some vehemently so. As I see it, the problem is that we expect BG photography to always be as it has always been. Allow the possibility that we could have something better. I think AW should go back to the boy who couldn’t perform for a camera crew. He ruined a shoot, because he couldn’t adapt to the event that the crew expected to film. The fact remains that he is having terrific sex, and would share it with us if he knew how. Candid photography gives him a way. It allows him the time and privacy to unfold his sexuality with his girl in the way that it unfolds. Most porn makers would think that we haven’t got a clue, showing simple loving couples. We might not have a clue, but what we would have instead is something sexier for being real, and much nicer to look at.
For those of us who still won’t look at BG, consider a girl lounging under a camera for hours at a time, over a period of weeks or months. That gives her time to dream up things to do and show. I’ll bet some of us would volunteer to edit raw videos.
There are two variations of candid that I like, and among us, we might think of more. Ideas are very welcome.
The first variation is to set up camera equipment in a model’s home, and then leave it there for a period of a few days to a few months, depending on what is being recorded. I imagine there are models who would be willing to snore n’ more on video, if it paid the rent. Some might even get a kick out of it. This approach uses long familiarity with the camera to get the model to drop her awareness of it.
This was my favorite idea for a long time, but I do see problems with it. There are more ways for the models to get into trouble. It is more difficult for a model to conceal a long-term photo project, than to conceal a 2-hour visit by a camera crew. A young model has young friends, who might rush into a locked room on a lark, if they can. It might also be awkward for a model to have a locked room without a good story about why it is locked. If she meets a new partner, and wants to bring her new partner to her bedroom, she’d probably stash the photo equipment in a closet, ending the shoot. For this method to work, we’d have to select models that are mature enough, and that have stable home situations.
A second variation of candid that I like, is to set up a fixed recording site, and bring models to it. I imagine that a small room in an inner-city building would be set up to function as a temporary bedroom. It has a wash room accessible only from the bedroom. The room is completely enclosed, quiet, and has a door that locks from the inside. The room is small enough that a bed mostly fills it. The room is warm enough that models do not need blankets or clothing to be comfortable. The room is also loaded up with lights and lenses. We could call this the AW photo booth. The advantages of a fixed recording site are that the environment is controlled, security is better, supervision is nearby, models are away from their home situations, the photo recording equipment can be set up optimally, and equipment resources can be concentrated on one site rather than distributed. It is also possible for an AW operator to control the zoom, pan, and focus, by remote. The disadvantage is that the models have less time to forget about the cameras. The challenge is to distract attention away from the cameras, and not have it go back. The sense of privacy has to be maintained. Cameras can’t click, flash, or make large movements that would draw attention back to the cameras. Lights can be bright, but have to be constant. The operator has to be unseen and unheard, in a different room. As for distracting attention, we’d like the models to distract each other. Once the models meld into each other, if nothing draws their attention back to their surroundings, they’re on candid camera.
So here’s the deal, (for one variation of candid). Four real-life couples are selected for a project. They report being happy, healthy, and having good sex. Their sex doesn’t wind down in 15 minutes. Instead, they like spending hours with each other. Being madly in love also helps. They’re what film makers call a “honeymoon couple” – In a crowd of 100 people, this is the couple that is almost kissing. The four couples are flown into Melbourne on 10-day vacations, paid for by AW. They are given a tour by a specially-hired hired tourist guide. Their days are filled with swimming, sight seeing, and whatever else especially appeals to the 8 models. At night, the couples are split up, with the four boys going to one hotel, and the four girls going to another. After a few days of this, with lots of company and fun things, but no opportunity to be together alone, the couples are horny. They can schedule a four-hour morning or afternoon session in AW’s photo booth, while the remaining three couples continue their tour. The couples fully understand this arrangement, including the parts about being split up at night, and why it is being done. They know this is a setup to be horny in a photo booth. It’s their end of the bargain. Their agenda is to not have an agenda. In particular, this is not some kind of acting, and is not supposed to look like porn. They are to just relax, completely alone together. Most of the models would go natural. A few can’t. I think that four couples with 10-day vacations works out about right, given one tour guide, one video operator, one photo booth, and the couple’s biological clocks. After 10 days are up, the couples can strike out on their own, extending their vacations at their expense. They will use the paid airline tickets to go home. If AW especially likes one of the couples, they can extend their stay in Melbourne for an extra 4 days. They will be given all the booth time they want, and then be sent on their way with a bonus week of hotel vouchers. Somewhere out of all that, is about 20 hours of prime video.
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