Blades and ladies
@bladesnladies
I organize mostly NSFW photoshoots with mainly historical blades and beautiful women. I also suck at naming projects. If you want to support this endeavor, my Patreon is
I did a kopesh-messer monstrosity once - the previous photographer I worked with had some ideas for it. I'll be sharing a couple of those.
O hey it's my 100th post because I actually managed to not forget posting here! Have a photo of Simonetta being comfortable during the Orientalism shoot.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords... Might not be all that bad actually.
Csilla with sword, buckler, and much less tactical censorship.
Bea with sword and buckler, AKA the shoot where I learned that tactical censorship is much harder to pull odf in reality than on paper.
I'm thinking about making some of the photos into prints, but I'm a bit lost in all the options, so I'd like some feedback - what (if any) kind of interest would be there for it, and what sizes/price ranges would you go for?
Rebeka with spatha and shield, end-phase of a descending cut from the left.
I don't plan on posting much of my craft here, but I spent some time this week making some props - fans of @ironlilyart.com might have a guess what's coming soon-ish.
Maja with a spatha from a fantasy shoot by my previous photographer.
I'm rather reluctant to directly plug the Patreon, but I have one. It has a shop function where some locked sets are available directly without a subscription. I'm using the income from it all to somewhat offset the expenses of these shoots, maybe even make the project self-sufficient in the future.
What makes me quite chuffed is sometimes models go to Aczel's studio with no swordy ideas in mind, spot the weapons and decide that they really want to incorporate those in their shoots. I have zero creative control over them or these shoots, but I'm very happy to enable all the armed shenanigans.
There are some more shoots I had little to do with other than providing weapons for them. I might be posting some content from those, so here's Viktória with some antlers, clay and a spear.
Rebeka with a dussack based on the portrait of Francois l'Olonnais - so pirate booty I guess?
One more from the Orientalism shoot. I kinda feel the need to make multiple photos from this into postcards to increase the late19th-early20th immersion.
Suspension straps look amazing on the female body in my opinion. The models are Csilla, Orsolya and Vivi. (I might have accidentally deleted a post with a similar theme because I can't find it)
For a notably later time period and different aesthetic - Savina with a garter dagger, shot on movie film.
Rebeka is indeed quite impressive. What doesn't quite transfer from that photo is that this session was 3 hours long, going through multiple weapons and she barely needed any rest despite me offering repeatedly.
Vali in some partial armour. Kind of inverted Ebenholz? I reeeeeeally should allocate time to make some legs and arms.
Sasha approximating Dürer's left Eber pretty well. A recurring challenge with these shoots is finding the right amount of nitpicking - where the model still has a good time, and the poses work at least reasonably well.
What if Mary Read lived ~150 years earlier. (Assuming the flashing story was legit, which is unlikely but whatever)
One more of Vali, this time with a Bidenhander, two-handed sword.
Vali really enjoyed being able to take part in dick-waving contests finally. Ballock daggers - helping you reach your dreams.
A montage of Hajni going through some Messer stances, plus a photo of her resting a bit.