NSPART - Milestone Broke 1800 Followers and Erotic Art "Playing in the Shadows, Revisited" 3 of 3 Featuring Model Yuni Kaye both Black & White and Multiple Color Versions (NSFW - Artistic Nudity)

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Hello Fellow Steemians,

I just broke 1800 followers and I'm happy to say my following keeps growing, but my payouts don't really seem to be doing any better in fact they seem to have fallen and I have lost some regular supporters (I don't know why) and now that I'm no longer part of Whaleshares and will run out Whaleshares soon so... Once those are gone it's not looking good as far as payouts are concerned (Since WS is about $20 of my payout)... I'll hang in there the best I can but if at some point you don't see me posting anymore it's because I could not afford to keep doing this without support of the whales or much more support of Dolphins and Minnows... It is what it is.

I have been on here for 10 months and have really put in 100% into all of my work, but I have to make a living and improve my quality of life. I just can't spend the time I have been spending on doing pictures and posts anymore for small payouts hoping to get a lucky whale upvote, or that someday it will payoff. I'm not in my Twenties anymore so I can't just live on hope and promises.

But I want to say thanks for all of the support I have received and I'll do my best to hang in there and keep posting for as long as I can. I'm just really tired, disappointed and getting burned out from working on images for several hours each, every day and making so little very often and the good payouts are just not consistent (without whaleshares or whale support) and I can't pay my bills or improve my life doing that or do better shoots like I want to trading my time for so little of a return on investment.

I either need more support from Whales and Dolphins so I can work like Steemit is my Job or I have to go find a job or get paid for my work elsewhere and occasionally post work on Steemit that I have already been paid to do by someone else and then Steemit will just be extra money. I really wanted to say I made my living from posting on here... But it's just not happening, due to lack of support and it seems that when I was with Whaleshares it cost me support of other Whales and Witnesses for some reason unknown to me. I was approached to do a contest and paid in WS to do so and I stayed out of the politics as none of that interests me.

Anyway on with the show...

This is the third and final image in my revisit of the images from this shoot with Model Yuni Kaye and this time I took the processing and final look in a slightly different direction with more muted tones. But I have also posted some alternates as well.

I really like this image and I did several versions of it below both for the model and my self. This was shot at the Mansion shoot which you can read more about here... https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-photoshoot-at-usd12-000-000-dollar-home-with-5-models-nsfw-some-mild-nudity

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Tamron 24-70 f 2.8
Lighting: Alien Bee AB1600 with Large Rectangular Softbox

Censored Poster Frame Image

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Uncensored Image - Playing in the Shadows Revisited #3

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A few More Versions...

Alternate Color Images #1 (The Previous Processing I had use on the others)

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Alternate Color Images #2

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Alternate Color Images #3

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Black & White Version

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Copyright Notice: All Images on this and any of my post are copyrighted by me Nico Simon Princely and registered with the U.S. Copyright office. All rights reserved. You DO NOT have permission to use or post any of my images without written consent from me. Do to so is copyright infringement and is subject to $150,000 in statutory damages per occurrence under U.S. Copyright Law. You may resteem the post.

Please Upvote, Follow, and Resteem if you view my work and want to see more of it and if you don't want to vote on something NSFW but want to keep viewing my work please go Upvote one of my Non-NSFW images to support my work, thanks.

What Goes In To My Work/Art:

For those that don't know, I spend a lot of time on all of my photos, unlike camera phone pictures, or quick snap shots. For any shoot there is model selection, planning, equipment setup, the shoot which is usually several hours where I shoot several hundred photos, then there is equipment tear down, choosing the best images which takes a couple of hours, color grading/correction, and then I spend sometimes an hour or two on a single image retouching and creating the final look, then resizing and watermarking for the web, even my Polaroids have to be scanned in, cropped, have the dust removed, resized and watermarked, so to the people that think I'm just posting a pic or two they are not seeing all of the work that goes into that picture they are looking at.

With advanced photo-manipulation and composites that can add many more hours of work. And what also makes these images possible is the years I have spent learning my craft, the $10,000+ in equipment + the Studio I was paying for that sadly I no longer have, and the model and Makeup Artist (when I use one) are either paid or get additional pictures which means more work for me, none of this is cheap or free it's a lot of work that I do because I love creating beautiful images.

I added this to my posts because it seems that people no longer value professional photography or understand what goes into it regarding, time, expense, etc... And some feel a camera phone picture of a ham sandwich or a selfie has equal value regardless of the difference in production time and cost. Almost every professional photographer I know has been adversely affected by the devaluation of professional photography due to mass proliferation of camera phones and the perception that all photos are created equally, so I try my best to educate people on what goes into what we do.

If you want to have Beautiful Women & Erotic Photography in your feed everyday then make sure to Follow Me, Upvote, Resteem and tell your friends about me because Your Votes and Support fund my photoshoots.

I'm also available for hire for commissioned work, commercial work and shoots for private collectors.

For those of you that would prefer to anonymously support my work rather than vote on an erotic image you can either send me Steem or SBD to @nspart or Bitcoin to 1EVqgb37LjmVDYQcjvNXTqy2yTCb11X3pB

You can also support my photography and art by buying me items from my wishlist on Amazon at the link below...

Support My Photography/Art - Wish List
Link: http://a.co/h5gRjuM

Thanks,

Nico

Some of my other Recent and Still Active Posts that feature my Digital Photography...

NSPART - One From a Series of hardlight images with the beautiful Kina in Color and Black & White (NSFW - Mild Nudity - Multiple Images) Another Steemit First Post!
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-one-from-a-series-of-hardlight-images-with-the-beautiful-kina-in-color-and-black-and-white-nsfw-mild-nudity-another

NSPART - Second from a Series of hardlight images with the beautiful Kina in Color and Black & White (NSFW - Mild Nudity) Another Steemit First Post!
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-second-from-a-series-of-hardlight-images-with-the-beautiful-kina-in-color-and-black-and-white-nsfw-mild-nudity-another

NSPART - Stand alone Art Piece from the hardlight images with the beautiful Kina in Color and Black & White with Retouching Process Video - Another Steemit First Post!
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-stand-alone-art-piece-from-the-of-hardlight-images-with-the-beautiful-kina-in-color-and-black-and-white-with-retouching

NSPART - Erotic Art with Yuni Kaye in the Shower - Sixth in a series in Color and Black & White (NSFW - Erotic Photography - Nudity - Multiple Images - Another Steemit First Post!)
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-erotic-art-with-yuni-kaye-in-the-shower-sixth-in-a-series-in-color-and-black-and-white-nsfw-erotic-photography-full

NSPART - Stand alone Art Piece from the hardlight images with the beautiful Kina in Color and Black & White - Another Steemit First Post!
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-stand-alone-art-piece-from-the-hardlight-images-with-the-beautiful-kina-in-color-and-black-and-white-another-steemit

NSPART - Implied Nude Art with Porsche Monique in the Pool #2 (Color and Black & White - Implied Nude) and a Video Showing my Composite and Retouching Process for it. - Another Steemit First Post!
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https://steemit.com/photography/@nspart/nspart-implied-nude-art-with-porsche-monique-in-the-pool-2-color-and-black-and-white-implied-nude-and-a-video-showing-my

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Thank you I always put 100% into my work.

Would be sad to see you go. And i understand your discouragement. Just bear in mind that steemit as a pilot platform (and STEEM blockchain itself more so) is still at it's early stages doing it's baby steps and is not scaled anyway near the way it might be in the future. But of course the decision is your to make and i can see your reasoning. As for myself i do not work for steemit i just share some of my work here as i do it anyways as my hobby, so that might be a totally different situation for me.

It's a very tough situation for me. I have to put my time where I get the greatest return and I'm just not seeing enough of one here. If I post here also work that I'm getting paid elsewhere then it's extra money. But doing it just for Steemit is not working sadly.

It's not economically beneficial to work just for steemit it is true. YET. For most of us. At current STEEM price.

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