"Hey, My name is Carmany (name changed to stage name) and i am very interested to hear more information about the shoe modeling job. I used to live in Alaska where i modeled here and there, as i was young and went to school. I am 20 years of age with great feet! Just let me know if i could be of service." With great feet, hmmmm....
The photo she sent me. Yep, she's hired.
Our first photo shoot was kinda awkward, because she was startling beautiful. I get imtimidated easily with good looking woman, especially in this case because she must of thought I was some pro camera guy. Nope I wasn't, I was using a Kodak Z1285. Surprised she didn't bolt out the door thinking I was a GWC.
Matches her.
American girl, blue jeans, white socks, and Sperry Topsiders
We mainly shot vanilla stuff, having her model off some Sperry Topsiders and such. They matched her, she had blue jeans on and it complemented her high class looks.
A video of her changing from Sperrys to sandals. Carmany was very easy to work with. She would be on time, and she was a pleasure to direct with. I would rattle off some directions and she would work it. I find that its easier to work with ladies that have had some modelling experience in the past simply because they know how to follow directions, and how to work it.
How to work it meaning they can follow the directions and act it out in a convincing manner. Anyone can dangle shoes on their feet, but the good models can make you change your pants in a minute.
Work socks and black flats.
One of the best features of Carmany was her legs. She had toned legs that were just nice to look at, esepcially when she wore them with lace stockings.
Shot above was a cheerleading shoot we done at the park. They aren't pencil thin like Brooke's, but they have enough muscle to them where its just nice to look it. Don't get me wrong, I love Brooke's legs, but there's something about Carmany's.
Carmany was a cheerleader in high school, too bad she outgrew her cheerleading shoes. These are Nike Cortez cheerleading shoes, with a colored swoosh. The bad thing is, you can't change color with these, so its school colors forever.
Carmany was the first model that I done WAM with, in case you don't know, it stands for Wet an Messy. In this case, Wet and Muddy.
This was shot at the park again, and I wanted her to let a shoe float downstream, but it was too fast. Always wanted to do a lost shoe in the river shoot, but that would of meant losing her sneakers, which was not an option. These were sun dried, she just took them off and placed them in her SUV, i'm guessing these were her outdoor sneakers. She is an outdoor woman, wished we would of done that fishing shoot.
Another first was Carmany rubbing her itchy feet against a tree. This was totally her idea, to rub her feet up there. Honestly it caught me off guard, cause I think she knew what she was doing, and I didn't wanna say anything to stop her.
Jump to 6:18 to see it. Such a damn tease. We only did 6 shoots with Carmany, and she quit due to real life and real job issues. I totally understand her positions, the nature of her work is sensitive, and having her be a shoe fetish actress wouldn't look well. So hot blonde, sexy legs and easy to work with, Carmany was a pleasure to work with.
"Are you guys still looking for models? I'm almost 19, 5 foot 3 and 133 pounds. Please email me back as soon as possible. Thank you,"
Ok, this shoot started off with the worst possible set up. I waited 45 minutes for her to come, and just as I was about to get into my car, she pulls up and gets out. Turns out they were having car trouble so I let it slide. I was still grumpy, but decided to do more risque shoots to make myself feel better.
So we went to a table and had a meet and greet. Basically talked about what I can offer, what she will be doing, and that theirs free shoes. Every women loves free shoes, and that's one of my main selling points to them. So she agreed to everything, even when explained when this position dealt with shoe fetish. Even told her mom (oh god).
On the pier.
First couple of shots we did on a fishing pier. Standard shoe review, and then showing off the shoes in our unique way. The black sneakers you see are Shoes for Crews resturaunt non-slip. Well hopefully non-slip, a puddle of pasta sauce or dishwashing liquid will still make you fall.
That look when a model flubs her lines, retake.
A funny thing happened during this shoot that unfortunately I wasn't able to capture. The pier that she sat one extends all the way up the forest behind her into a field. As we were shooting, we heard a bike approach and then "BOOOOM", the pier shook, even I felt it. We ran up and saw that one kid had ran his bike into the pier at full speed. Full speed because we heard no brakes, he was about 20 feet from his bike, and the fact we both felt the pier rumble. After some cleaning up, he was able to walk off on his own power. I wished I had the camera rolling to catch the sound and rumble of that accident. It was funny as heck!, when I found out the kid was doing ok.
Smoke break
Smoking kills, call me morbid.
With the light fading fast, we decided to move inside. The above shots are from a smoke break. I got no problems with the models taking a smoke break as long as I could film it. When they are paid by the hour, might as well get my shots in.
Tacos!
The above is a eating shoot. Always wanted to do vore before, women eating, not eating women. So we went to Taco Bell to do a shoot, and get some other shots. I mainly chose this place because it was close, and it had light inside.
Almost got caught.
Stupid me forgot my cell phone at home, so I was forced to do this shot holding a camcorder. I'm sure at least 3 people saw me man handling a camcorder under a table. Star was afraid she was going to get caught for removing her shoes in public, but I told her it was ok as long as it was candid. And we didn't get caught, I managed to get a 8 minute video out of this with people walking around.
Last shots of the day.
Night fast approaching, we moved shoot location in the direction of her home, so we shot this on the way home for her. What you don't see is a police officer in the parking lot behind me. I was scared that he would of came over to see if we were loitering, and then realize we were shooting foot porn. I was lined up to see we were shooting video of the park and had nothing to hide. I should bring a skateboard so it looks like we're doing something legit instead of having some cute girl remove her shoes.
Star showing off the studio pair of Sperry Topsiders. This pair has been used from Penny, Lucy, Brooke, Sky, Sasha, Emily and now Star. These are size 7, and have a blue plaid on the side.
So all in all, a good shoot that started bad. Gingers rock, and hopefully Star gets the support to do more shoots. She's willing, chill with shoe modelling, and easy to work with.
"Hi! So here is some samples of my feet!
age: 19 shoe size: 5-6"
Dawn, one of the most beautiful and easiest to work with models. Not to mention she had superb acting skills, and just knew what to say even if it was menial stuff. I would give her a brief acting lesson on what to do, and she would do the motions and talk.
Most people assume that there's no acting involved in my shoots., that's not true. It takes superb acting and delivery to get people to book shoots with the models. I've had some hot smoking ladies but no one booked them because their performance wasn't there (Bella, Penny, Emily).
Dawn arrived and I got a peek into her car, clothes everywhere in it, and she reached in a pulled out a bag of shoes. I always tell the models to bring their shoes to model with, because who knows, someone else might want them.
Our 1st shoot, was a standard shoeplay shoot, showing off the shoes while looking cute. I always start off slow, don't want to spook them so fast. I've spooked alot of models by doing that, I have to keep them coming back for more.
And Dawn did, for another shoot, then she had to leave. I was crushed, because it was something out of her control, but she had to leave. But before that happen, someone had offered to buy her waitress flats for $250.
Trusting her, I sent her the money and told her to forward the shoes to an address. Long story short, it took 6 months and about 2 veiled angry e-mails to get her to send the shoes. That ended the reason why Dawn never did another shoot. I still feel bad about using threatening language to her, so she would send the waitress flats, but that was $250. That was big money that someone had paid for them, and they had placed faith in me to deliver the product. Business wise, it was a necessary play, morally, I wished it would of turned out better.
"the shoot was a lot of fun :)
take your time on the photographs, i'm not in any rush. yeah? how much are you thinking i'll get for them?"
We'll miss you and hope you can forgive me. You are a true innocent Princess and wish you the best.
A little back story on Claire. We met during college, wayyyy back in 04. It was purely coincidental how we met. She knocked on my open door as I was playing videogames and needed directions. She was in denim shorts, thick white socks, and her holey Nike sneakers that were painted over.
So we talked and before you knew it, we were casual close friends. Meaning that we talked and knew each other, but didn't hang out that much, close but not everyday close. It's been like that for almost a decade now. And I am so fortunate that she has an open mind, and a kind heart that i'm not gonna take advantage of, especially during shoots.
Today's shoot consisted of shoeplay showing off her old flats that she found in her room, and a ballet shoot. Even since I did one with real ballerina Chloey, I wanted to do another one, and the next model I had on my schedule was Claire.
We did some outdoor shots, having her perform on a wooden bench, but unfortunately we ran out of sunlight. Shoot time was suppose to be 2pm, pushed to 3pm, then 3:45, and finally 4:30. It took Claire a little bit longer to get ready, which was ok with me. It gave me time to set up since this was a personal shoot for me, and not for anyone else, muhahahahha.
Shoes in this shoot:
US Polo sneaker flats. Were a birthday present, worn outdoors alot but lost an insole.
Faded Glory from Wal Mart. Used for 3 years as work shoes at a financial institution.
I think these are Mossimo sparkle flats from Target.
"I wear a size 6.5 and don't mind showing my face or voice."
That's what she said to me when I asked if she was ok showing off her entire body to model. Cool I thought, I can always use more full body models. Piper and Penny were full body models, and another, alright. So we talked and booked a shoot.
Once we started shooting though, she said no.
With Lucy, I never got any face shots, the closest I got was a back head shot. It really grinds my gears when models change their minds. Once you commit to terms of a shoot, stick to them since that's what i'm going by. Frankly when I started, I was too nice and let models get away with ite, I mean things. *looks at Lucy, Carmany and Brooke*
First shoot of Lucy. Showing off her white porn flats.
Stuck in a coffe cup, she was trying to crush it.
A shot of her other shoes.
Marty, you got to get into her shoe!
The part that really got to me was that she took advantage of us. One of the perks that I state when working with us that you receive shoes to use and borrow, and maybe keep. In this case, she was asked to borrow a pair of Sperry Topsiders for a couple of shoots later, and then keep them.
Nope, after 1 shoot, she quit. No contact ever since.
The very 1st shot, Chloey slipping off her work Crocs.
POV private shoot.
Letting her feet breathe.
Wasn't suppose to go that far. Retake!
Reviewing her nursing Adidas.
We all got sun burnt that day.
Clouds, break time. Stretch.
Taking a break under the roof, stretching her worn legs out.
Kicking back and relaxing.
Yea, her feet smell after working out. We done a running shoot in the sun, and stretching, so she was drenched.
Like a true Southerner, barefoot.
Autumn, size 6.
I met Autumn online for a job posting I had. Usually the approach I use is a vanilla greeting, and then after much discussion on what we're doing, I will say this is a shoe fetish. Most times when I say this is a fetish shoot, is when i'm ready to drop talking to them.
During my early days, I would shoot about 3/4 vanilla shoos until the model is confident enough to do fetish shoots Brooke took 3 shoots before I did any fetish stuff with her, the early stuff I just got her to do shoots while studying.. There is a difference between vanilla and fetish work.
Anyways, we agreed to meet at the park early morning. First sign of trouble was that I had to wait 45 minutes before she showed up. I'm all for waiting, but not more than 15 minutes. One time, I waited for 90 minutes on a model, never again.
Well Autumn did show up and we proceeded to shoot. She was in blue jeans and a styled ripped shirt, reminded me of fish gills. Then 2nd problem was that she was sleeping and was sick.
mmmmk, yea, at this point I wanted to cancel the shoot. Whenever I work with models, I want that synergy that is created when I know i'm shooting something good, and she's enjoying showing off. None of that here in this case, so this was going to be a grind shoot, grinding my way through it.
So I had her do various random nonsense stuff like dangling, showing of socks, real vanilla boring stuff.
Dangling perched on rails
Cleaning her shoe after hiking in the woods.
All clean
Bridge dangling. I was going to have her drop her shoe in the river, and then have her wade out in the water to get it.
POV money shot.
So the Autumn shoot, lets say unless someone does book a shoot, this will be a one time deal. I wasn't impressed with this shoot, and there are other size 6 models around.
