Fetish Firsthand: Fetish Photography

The Task
Look at yourself in a new way and create a self-portrait in photographs, using this article and the ABCs of fetish photography as guidelines/inspiration if you do not normally shoot in this genre. Try to look for ways to go outside your comfort zone in a way you can feel proud of. Throw in a little surreality or anonymity if you like. Due to the very short nature of the contest, I have decided to theme it around the most readily available model there is: yourself! You can be subtle or campy, anything goes as long as it's fetish portrait-focused. It does NEED to have a person in it, as this is a central element of portraiture.

The Timeline
Luckily, photography these days can be a pretty instant art. So in celebration of Fetish Portrait Photography week during Project Educate, Fetish Firsthand will only run for a week!
So get going and pull out that inspiration.
Start: Today
End: **CONTEST EXTENDED Midnight EST Saturday June 28th**

How to enter
Photographs must be submitted June 16th or later, and shot specifically for the contest. Sorry, this contest is only open to photography submissions. Submit your entry to deviantART in Photography - People & Portraits - Fetish portraits and note me, ^opioid, with a link to your entry. You may submit multiple entries.

Due to the nature of this contest (being both mature content and self portraits), you must be 18 or older to enter.

Please title submission notes "Fetish week contest" or something similar that makes it easily identifiable to me as being for this contest

Judging
The poll didn't work out last time, so I'm flying solo with some surprise guest judges.
I'll slowly announce the guest judges over the coming days.
They include *ronni and =S-U-B-L-I-M-E


and last but not least...
Prizes!
1st place - 6 month subscription, devWEAR t-shirt (of winner's choice) and a large size print donated by the always awesome =S-U-B-L-I-M-E (from his gallery, very tasty fetish artwork), 8x12 print from *ronni donated by *ronni
2nd place - 3 month subscription, dA keychain
3rd place - 1 month subscription, dA keychain

All winners will also receive journal features of the winning entries.

An additional winner will receive a print of their choice from =S-U-B-L-I-M-E's gallery for his favorite entry in the contest. The prizes and generosity just keep on coming.



Short contest, even with the extension, so get shooting!
If you need inspiration in the meantime, come on over to #thevaginamafia on dAmn to chat live with other photographers sweet on fetish-related photography.

Still have questions? Just comment here, and I will do my best to answer ASAP!