First of all, I just (like an hour or so before writing this) set up Photour.net’s page to Facebook as a way to gather Photour’s visitors, to get to know about the visitors’ interests and to give an easy way to keep in touch with the latest updates and ongoings to the site and Project L – and to update stuff and peek previews that do not necessarily even reach Photour.net itself.
In short, more content, less hassle. Please, if you’re even somewhat interested in the content, like the page. And even perhaps click on the “Follow page” button if you’re really interested: https://www.facebook.com/photour.net
Now, back to our scheduled Project L.
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Project L, and that’s just honestly because Christmas times are often really, really busy and many of ours had timeschedule changes and so on. Better late than never, so here’s the 30th instalment of Project L.
The Finnish winter is undeniably cold. Sure, there are these silly, temporary periods when the weather turns only moderately cold, but this day was not one of them.
Starting off the day to drive to Tampere was already delayed, as my van’s doors were frozen shut by the nightly -20 °C (that’s -4 °F for you silly Yanks). I felt compassion for Tii, as she would have to pose in the freezing, windy conditions in mere latex. And as we know, latex does not insulate against coldness. At all.
The photoshoot started – luckily – with ease, as the morning’s wind had calmed down. We headed off to a nearby forest where the orange-coloured sun barely rose above the trees on the horizon even when it was already noon. Finnish winter days, even though beautiful, are often very short, lasting only a couple of hours. Thus we did not have much time.
From windbreak formed by the trees, we, rather boldly, headed off to a snowy rose garden at lake Näsijärvi’s shore. It started off nicely, but the sudden realisation that the car was quite far away really struck, as the cold, breezing wind struck us. I was somewhat fine with the weather, but poor Tii got a fair share of the coldness.
After that, we decided it was too cold to shoot outside for a while, so we headed off to Lempäälä’s Ideapark to enjoy some warmth of indoors. And some fine, Finnish cuisine: pizza.
Soon we were warm enough, so we headed to the centre of Tampere to freeze off Tii’s other buttock. The day had dawned to its end and twilight had set over the windy city, as the temperatures had fallen again. Sun did not shine where we roamed, though mostly because the sun was below the horizon.
Thus, we sought warmness from indoors, again. This time it was around Finlayson’s shopping-newsroom-restaurant-café area. Then I put Tii outside again to pose without anything other than the suit itself.
I’m a bastard.
All and all, ignoring the drawback of Tii freezing her buttocks, the day was a success. We had luck with the weather being as sunny as promised and managed to showcase the Finnish winter in its true, cold colours.
As usual, behind the scenes video with a piece of vlog will follow in a few days’ time, with – of course – behind the scenes and outtake photos.
Latex used in the project:
Metallic blue Princess catsuit by Libidex
Thank you for the new very amazing pictures. I think you like makeing picture in the cold ;-) Do the models also like this? I hope, they also have fun doing this. It seems so…
You made some very nice pictures with latex and some daily /casual clothes the last time. Would enjoy seeing more of this.
Im eager to see more of your pictures..
Very great work, the models and you.
Hi sven, and thanks for your feedback.
The clothes present are the daily, casual clothes of Tii, and that’s what Project L is all about – being one’s self. To others the outfit might seem odd and perhaps out of place, but to Tii it’s just everyday life; and that’s especially wonderful and great about her, she’s not afraid to wear what isn’t that common.
Of course I must understand what you mean and I can assure you, there will be “normal” clothes in the future, too – just remember, that everyone has a different view on what’s “normal”.
Thanks for posting another set of fantastic photos. I particularly like the ‘domestic’ shots towards the end, especially the one where she has opened the fridge – love that combination of latex and ‘normal’ life.
The lighting on the outdoor shots is great, how is that done?
And do you know what kind of catsuit this is, who supplied it.
Thanks again from London, and all the best to you for 2015!
Hi, and thanks for the kind feedback.
The outdoor shots didn’t have any special lighting tricks, just the midday sun of Finland reflected and thus smoothed from the snow on the ground; only slight edits were required in Adobe Lightroom. Naturally I had to direct the model so that the light would hit her the best way possible at the given time. This all combined with wide apertures ranging from f/1.2 to f/2.8 is an easy way to provide dashing winter-esque photos.
The link to the catsuit’s product page can be found at the end of the article, right before the images. It’s Libidex’s metallic blue Princess catsuit. They’ve got a wonderfully welcome shop – albeit it has a doorbell thingy to get in – in the Covent Garden, go check it out.
Great pictures. The vibrant blue really stands out. I like it and may get a suit in that color. I get most of my gear from Libidex.
I would love to visit Finland, mainly to see the Salpalinja-museo and pay my respects to a hero of Finland, Simo Häyhä.
I have been following this site since you started it and posted about project L on rubberpal, you really have came along way and the quality of photos has gone up.
Great work, Thanks for sharing it with us.
Outstanding! :)
As another admired said, I am particularly taken by combination of latex and ‘normal’ life. Looks great !
Thank you for sharing your great work !
Hi to Finnland,
I love this excellent pictures, it’s so fresh and awesome to see the pleasure and the outstanding feel of normality…. The shots are absolut brilliant – in stylish and in technical way. I hope – no, I’m shure you will do this theme for a long time in future!
Congrats! A new fan in Germany… ;-))
Really cool pictures. There is an innocent beauty of her dressing styling and being in public. The combination of the blue catsuit with black over-garment works really well. As for the photos at home, there is some interesting serenity with sparkling around in latex.