Problem is that it's hard to distinguish non-thieving folks and the ones who'll try and resell your images as their own. There have been quite a number of those lately especially on Flickr and other sites.
So, better safe than sorry. I figure if one of my friends wants a small jpg version, they can ask, and I'm more than happy to provide them one.
I've been wondering...karisu_samaFebruary 10 2008, 10:26:09 UTC
From photos I've seen online at various sites, it seems as if the large majority of Maschera people use the same basic "generic attractive bland featureless femmy-doll-face" mask mold (as pictured here) and just paint/embellish it differently. From your own observations, does this seem to be true, or have most photographers I've seen perhaps be searching out a "type" of masked persona to photograph?
Re: I've been wondering...jadecat9February 10 2008, 18:25:44 UTC
For the most part, "yes". The models themselves tend to favor the "volto" which completely hides their faces. This isn't the completely historical accurate Venetian mask, as it doesn't allow you to eat or drink without taking the mask off. But, as I mentioned, the models tend to favor this type of mask for aesthetic reasons. Some of the mask makers have really taken this type of mask to an art form with tribal patterns, pagan, and art-museum images, which you see in some shops. However, the vast majority are similar in vein.
In terms of other masks, there are the different traditional types: "bauta", the Venetial "plague doctor" (or anything with a very long ibis-like nose), "moretta" (an all black velvet mask for women held in place by their teeth), half-mask, etc. The bauta you see quite a bit of, but the moretta and beaked masks are a bit more rarer
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Re: I've been wondering...kilah_hurtzFebruary 10 2008, 19:48:29 UTC
One way that you look at the use of the [i]volto[/i] by the models is that they all start off from the same base and it is their or the mask makers skill which brings out the rest. This is the same concept as the cows in Chicago or the pigs in Seattle
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In terms of other masks, there are the different traditional types: "bauta", the Venetial "plague doctor" (or anything with a very long ibis-like nose), "moretta" (an all black velvet mask for women held in place by their teeth), half-mask, etc. The bauta you see quite a bit of, but the moretta and beaked masks are a bit more rarer ( ... )
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