I thought I should say something regarding the lack of updates on the website.
Some people may know that I've been working and living abroad for the past 11 months. I'll be returning to Portugal next month, April, and if everything goes acording to plan I shall resume shooting a updating the website.

Meanwhile, everyone is welcome to check the current galleries here.

Enjoy!

Model: Noah
Camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W50
Levels tweaked in Photoshop.

A photoshoot with a fast car had been in store for quite a while.
I'm fortunate to have a good friend who trusts me his "baby" for a whole day.

So I picked up the Boxster on a Friday afternoon after work after leaving my own car in the garage filled with clothes and spotlights.
I drove to Cascais to pick up Noah and you can't imagine how thrilled she was with the ride back! Girls will be girls!

On the way back we stopped to buy an extra spotlight and electrical cord and to get the car washed and pretty.
So, preparations began around 8 o'clock with washing the car and the actual shooting started around 11 o'clock. I set up 3 spotlights, totaling 1800W of light.
The camera is still not the best camera and I lost some really cool phtoos because the camera can't handle the light as it should and the end result is a little blurry.
Also, this was my first time in the garage and with all the light. I need to pratice more.

At around mid-night we were joined by a friend couple for some more shooting, but that's another story.

Check the album here and don't forget that you can register to leave your comments and rate the photos.

MODELS

Amber Michaels

Anastasia Pierce

Ancilla Tilia

Ashley Renee

Bianca Beauchamp

Claire Adams

Darenzia

Dita von Teese

Eden Wells

Emily Marilyn

Jean Bardot

Jewell Marceau

Kumi Monster

Masuimi Max

Miss Conduct

Paige Richards

Rubber Eva

Tall Goddess

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PHOTOGRAPHERS

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ABOUT ME

I'm a 33 year old regular guy from Lisbon, Portugal. I just like fetish stuff. I've always enjoyed browsing the web for fetish photos and at one point I thought "it's probably much more fun to do the photos myself than to just look at them". Hence the website. It started just for fun, and still is just for fun.
I'm not a photographer myself. I have some notions of how the camera works, how lenses work, but I know nothing about light, and that's my biggest handicap.
I try to read some photography related articles when I have the time but I have too many things going to give this my full attention.
But... It's going up on the prority list...

ABOUT THE WEBSITE

Version 1
Dressing4Pleasure was born in early 2003. The main focus has been the same since the beginning: fetish clothing and footwear. This first version was hosted on a free web hosting provider: Tripod.
At the time I did not own a digital camera so the pictures were taken with a borrowed digital camera.

Version 2
Version 2 was still hosted at Tripod but it moved to a monthly format. So there would be a "main site", with links to each month's issue. This happened because the space at Tripod was very limited and i just wasn't enough anymore.
The "main site" is still online at http://dressing4pleasure.tripod.com.
In versions 1 and 2 the focus was a bit on the quantity of photos. Everything that looked fun would be published. No big concerns about backgrounds, lighting, etc.
In the meanwhile I had bought a Mustek GSmart LCD2. Made a lot of photos with this camera for the website.

This was obviously very limited so I decided to invest in a better camera: Canon PowerShot A60. Very nice camera indeed!

You'll see several albums with photos taken with this camera.

Version 3
This was in 2006 I think. Dressing4Pleasure got a subdomain at an online shop and started using a different format: the current galleries format using Coppermine Gallery.
Bigger focus on quality over quantity. Started concerning more about the backgrounds, the sets, the overall "photographic quality".

Version 4
This is the current version. I've registered Dressing4Pleasure.net and I'm still using the Coppermine format. And the focus on quality remains. The idea is to keep evolving.
I also got a new camera: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W50.

This is still not the best camera for the job. I actually like the Canon best because it has a full manual mode, but the Sony will be good to make some videos.

Got a new camera and a couple filters (Aug.2008).
Canon PowerShot G3. The most relevant filter is the polarizer.

After almost an year offline (more than an year???) Dressing4Pleasure is back online!

For those new to Dressing4Pleasure here's the short version: Dressing4Pleasure is a "fetish photography" project born in 2003. This is it's 4th version and it's been hosted in several different places.
The philosophy behind it is still the same: focus on fetish. Clothing. So you won't see explicit nudity here, although you may see something implicit.
I'll be posting a long version of the "Dressing4Pleasure history" later.

So what's new?

First or all, Dressing4Pleasure's own domain! You'll notice it's a .net domain and not a .com domain. The reason is simple: this website is not commercial.

News #2: I've decided I won't be blurring faces anymore. Let's see how I manage to keep that up but hoods, crazy angles, shadows, long hair and whatever are all accepted solutions. Or, models that do not need to cover their face. (Dressing4Pleasure keeps a strong emphasis on it's models privacy.)

Last for the moment: I've created an auctions website. But I will talk about this later.

There's still a lot of tweaking to be done regarding the layout, images, broken links, etc. I'll be doing that daily so expect to notice diferent stuff when you come back.

For now, enjoy the albums that are already online in the Galleries!