Ok, I'm accepting it. Lightblooms has been in MR over 30 days now and has not been bought, so most likely it never will be. That's ok. I am really happy with the response (97% loved it!), but at the same time I see areas in which I could have done better.
I'll admit that when I first got the idea to try and become a Suicide Girl, I thought, easy money! I got the look; get naked, takes pictures, and collect $500? Sure no problem. Ha ha! I have learned so much since submitting my first set about a year ago now.
The photography groups on this site have changed my life. I have learned more from them than I did in a year of photography courses at a well-respected, private liberal arts college. Cherry's Photoshop tutorials popped my brain and opened up new worlds for me in photo editing, and the photography, self-portraiture, and sg photographer hopefuls groups are so full of amazingly talented people who are supportive and willing to share their knowledge. I've never been a part of such a community before, and I'm so grateful!
And I must have learned something useful, because I don't think anybody told me on my last set "work with a staff photographer." Lightblooms is the first set I've completed entirely on my own, and that's how I want to accomplish this goal--to be able to say every bit of it is my own work. I'm way more of a photographer than a model, so it's just the way I want it to be. For me.
A lot of my friends IRL don't get what I'm doing here, that it's more than just an exhibitionistic hobby. Becoming an SG has become a personal challenge that is really an aggregate of skills I want to master, ranging from technical knowledge to creative vision to self confidence and physical poise. Well, hopefully those are ever-evolving elements to life, but this happens to be a milestone I've chosen for this meandering path I'm on...a vehicle, language, or exercise for synthesizing those qualities.
So yeah. I feel like I'm getting there (where exactly there is, I'm not sure; the important part to me is the going), and if the last one did this well and yet I can still see lots of ways to make the next one better, well watch out! Mwah ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
I'll admit that when I first got the idea to try and become a Suicide Girl, I thought, easy money! I got the look; get naked, takes pictures, and collect $500? Sure no problem. Ha ha! I have learned so much since submitting my first set about a year ago now.
The photography groups on this site have changed my life. I have learned more from them than I did in a year of photography courses at a well-respected, private liberal arts college. Cherry's Photoshop tutorials popped my brain and opened up new worlds for me in photo editing, and the photography, self-portraiture, and sg photographer hopefuls groups are so full of amazingly talented people who are supportive and willing to share their knowledge. I've never been a part of such a community before, and I'm so grateful!
And I must have learned something useful, because I don't think anybody told me on my last set "work with a staff photographer." Lightblooms is the first set I've completed entirely on my own, and that's how I want to accomplish this goal--to be able to say every bit of it is my own work. I'm way more of a photographer than a model, so it's just the way I want it to be. For me.
A lot of my friends IRL don't get what I'm doing here, that it's more than just an exhibitionistic hobby. Becoming an SG has become a personal challenge that is really an aggregate of skills I want to master, ranging from technical knowledge to creative vision to self confidence and physical poise. Well, hopefully those are ever-evolving elements to life, but this happens to be a milestone I've chosen for this meandering path I'm on...a vehicle, language, or exercise for synthesizing those qualities.
So yeah. I feel like I'm getting there (where exactly there is, I'm not sure; the important part to me is the going), and if the last one did this well and yet I can still see lots of ways to make the next one better, well watch out! Mwah ha ha ha ha!!!!!!
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joliette:
Your set was/IS stunning. Really. But then so are you - as a person - set, or no set(s). 
joliette:
<3 <3 LOVE you. Thanks for being here. Really. This community, for me, just wouldn't be the same without you - you remind me of that constantly.