Spanking View

Some cynical (or uninformed) people are under the assumption that a successful spanking is one that simply yields photos of red and/or marked bottoms. After many years of shooting spanking scenes, I am here to tell you that the amount of red on a model’s bottom in a photo might or might not have any correspondence to how painful her spanking was.

First, while I don’t use Photoshop to alter photos to make model’s bottoms appear to be red (or redder than they are), I know of some companies that do precisely that. Using filters or other tools to add redness or marks.

Second, photos are taken sometimes quite a while after a model has been spanked, especially on my sites, which have a lot of switching in scenes, so the model who was spanked first might lose some or all of her redness by the time she is finished spanking the other model or models in the scene and it comes time to shoot the stills, which are shot after the video is completed.

Thirdly, some models have skin that marks easily, even if she wasn’t spanked very hard, and some you can spank over and over again with everything including the kitchen sink and she barely shows any red. So in this case, of course, it is very difficult to judge how much the spanking hurt just by looking at a photo.

Ashley Rose holds her marks long after a shoot

In the above photo, Ashley Rose was caned, paddled and spanked hard.  Ashley has skin that marks quite easily and holds the marks for days. So she is great for photos taken long after the spanking was  filmed.

It takes A LOT to get marks or even redness to show on Christy Cutie

In the above photo, from a Spanking Sorority Girls scene, Christy Cutie was punished just as hard as Ashley was in her scene, but instead of a cane, she received whacks with a wooden bath brush and large wooden paddle.  In this scene, Christy was filmed being punished by Veronica, who was then punished by Christy. So by the time it came to shooting photos, Christy, who did get red while her punishment was being filmed, had completely lost her redness by the time the still photos were taken. And it’s not like you can give her a few swats before taking the photos to get her red again. So while she had an equal punishment level to Ashley, you can clearly see the two different results – one bottom looks blistered,the other barely touched.

Veronica shows her redness fairly well if spanked hard enough

In the above photo,Veronica was spanked by Christy in this same scene on Spanking Sorority Girls. The photo was taken closer to the time of the actual spanking, but Veronica also holds her redness more than Christy, so her bottom looks more punished, even though it was pretty much a draw (or you could argue that Veronica was spanked less severely than Christy was, but looks like she got it harder).

Sometimes lighting and photo contrast effect the amount of redness you see

In the above photo, taken of Veronica on a different Spanking Sorority Girls shoot, you can see that her bottom looks more marked than the previous photo. It was a similar level punishment, but the one harder paddle whack left a lasting mark on her right butt cheek.  Also, the lighting on this day allowed for more contrast, which shows more punch to the redness.  So sometimes, a fourth factor in how punished a bottom looks in a photo can be how the lighting and contrast can effect images differently.

The “bottom” line is you can’t always judge how hard a bottom was punished by looking at a photo taken (who knows how long) after the actual punishment. Since frame grabs can’t measure up to the quality of a photo taken from a pro still camera, we will continue to take photos after the scene is finished.

And you can use the photos as a guide, but trust what you see in the video!