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Question about mixing models and flour
No I didn't misspell. I am planning to coat a model in flour and need advise/tips. Of course she will be nude and hopefully the flour will stay dry. Anyone do this sort of thing before? Rich P.S. Please do not start with the "deep fried model" jokes, ok?  Nov 09 06 03:17 pm Link you may want to Spritz her with a fine mist of water to get it to stick. Enough to get it to stick but not make it look wet. PS.... Everything is good deep fried! Nov 09 06 03:18 pm Link Chris Macan wrote: Then sort of dust the flour on her then? The aim is to get a funky texture that I can do my PS magic on... Nov 09 06 03:20 pm Link I've never done it before, but I woudl suggest you double sift the flour to get more air into it befor you apply it to your model. You might even want to try cake flour as that is apparrently finer particulates. And make sure you use plain, not self-rising (whoch probably eliminates cake flour unless they sell it plain) I'd use a seive to apply the flour. A flour sifter is itself a seive, so you might want to sift a third time driectly on the model. Nov 09 06 03:24 pm Link Rich Mohr wrote: The key is testing until you get the effect that works for you. Nov 09 06 03:27 pm Link Does this have anything to do with rolling her around and looking for the wet spot? RB Sorry old joke that I could not resist. Why don't you give us a context so that there could be some helpful input. You do not want to introduce moisture into this trust me. Nov 09 06 03:29 pm Link Bakers use milk or an egg-wash (egg whites are very sticky) to get flour to stick to a surface.... Also, instead of flour, you may consider powdered sugar, depending on what effect you're going for.... *Edit* other ideas could be warmed corn syrup or honey. Hope you have a shower available, lol..... Nov 09 06 03:41 pm Link Rich Mohr wrote: Spray her with SPRAY olive oil. You can get it at target, walmart, etc. Nov 09 06 03:43 pm Link use potato flour is so fine when your pour it out of your hand it looks like milk.    But beware flour gets into all your equipment. Nov 09 06 03:44 pm Link This is so cool. I was thinking of doing some kind of texture thing also. Lots of great ideas here. Nov 09 06 03:46 pm Link Daniela V wrote: Daniela's right. Oil! Nov 09 06 04:03 pm Link My wife sifted flour on the model for my Skiers on Rump Ridge shot that you can see on my MM96288 site. But since I was using it as snow, the model was both dry and horizontal. The model, incidentally, was totally facinated with the whole process. Nov 09 06 07:09 pm Link Great ideas guys!! Keep em coming!  Nov 10 06 08:40 am Link i love your idea and would like to do it!! i LOVE that last kneeling shot! water and flour make glue - so use something else she ought to be slightly sticky, not wet egg white is ideal but lets hope oil works! look for ideal pose first with model in situ lights etc possibly you could coat oil only where gravity wont do the job better effect but depends how many poses you are after dont bother retoiucghing the oil, only the 'flour' take a bowl or warm water and towels near the shooting space lay down sheeet towels or whatever all the way to the bathroom FIRST! take the camera out of the room do the prep on the set minus anything you dont NEED in shot and/or cover EVERYTHING before dusting her then clean hands and go get camera from a room far from the dusting process take back there before assisting model with adjustments wow i wish i were doing this!!! (and i dont wear contact lenses anymore, so i could) Nov 10 06 03:00 pm Link |
