Genesis - Regal (Patreon)

This set was a top tier struggle from a technical perspective, but first let's talk about Genesis. She's rocking the implied look with nothing but a carefully placed sequined sheet. Definitely still loving the energy she's bringing to these looks, and she's getting visibly more and more comfortable as the scenes progress. From a tech perspective, jesusfuckingchrist.

The background were simple curtains, then a chair, a vase with some random color appropriate plants, and I draped another gold'ish colored bikini wrap over a small table to make it blend in with the scene better. I used a giant soft light at like 1% for some fill, an overhead light at very low setting to create a bit of gentle hair highlights, and a giant fresnel light modifier directly above and in front of her at about 45 degrees. So far, so good, old timey classic look using classic methods on a modern diva. WELL I decided to go full method and dug up an old 1950s USSR lens that had practically zero control except for focus, and all the images came out just a smidge soft. The issue that I ran into was, the lens was feeding a false focus positive to my Sony A7iv's focus peaking overlay. So each shot where I thought I was nailing the light reflecting off her eyes, which would indicated that her face would be in focus, was in fact only focusing on this strange helical catch light that even my photographer friends can't explain - and we've written it off as "old lenses do weird shit sometimes"

You can see this by zooming into her eyes in almost any of the pics.

That being said, I actually still kinda like how the set came out? I did a ton of post work, including using a beta old photo restoration filter that actually worked to recover a lot of lost detail?! So, yeah, one for the books.

Genesis - Regal

[Photoset]

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tm9a4td94lm8k95zxrbtc/AEtkreY5652-P7kX2aTw6i4?rlkey=8144jjgg9g22rv4k2h256uxq0&dl=0