Special Delivery!

Added 23-01-2019

Tags: brunette, stockings, corset, outdoor, rope bondage

Zoe has had herself posted to her owner as a special surprise for his birthday- but oh no! When the delivery guy gets to the farmhouse, there's no-one in! So Zoe has to be left as a special delivery all packaged up ready- not even signed for! That's a bit risky, you know, anyone could come along and steal the parcel. The delivery guy didn't even leave her under cover- what if it rains? You just can't trust these cut-rate couriers!

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In The (Anime) Army Now

Added 21-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, blonde, steampunk, uniform, frogtie, rope bondage, cosplay

Love this cute anime army uniform! Ariel loved it too (so much she tried to pinch it for a modelling tour. I had to be firm.) Once can imagine the stylish but strict Sergeant Major handing out discipline details to the troops, six hours in bondage for back-chat to the Captain!

Hywel's note: the last few shots of this set (before Ariel was untied) are an experiment. I've got a bunch of weird lenses in my kit-room which I don't use for bondage stuff and I wanted to have a play and just see if there were valid and interesting ways of using them. So I decided to shoot a set as normal, but then change over to some weird and wonderful optic just for a few shots at the end and just see if anything worked. For this set I used a 12mm fish-eye lens, which has a very extreme non-linear wide angle rendition of the scene. It's not flattering, exactly, because to get anything much you end up standing right on top of your subject (I had to cut a few shots because the lower 30% of the image consisted of my own legs!) But probably because you end up right in the middle of things, the resulting images do have a certain melodrama to them. The main lesson learned is that it is almost impossible to avoid getting the lights and ceiling into the shot, so one has to actually embrace that at make a feature of it (for example res_10112018_RES00652.jpg). It's also very easy to block the light or cast a shadow on the subject (eg res_10112018_RES00665.jpg), again because one has to be right on top of the subject to get a shot. Conclusion- I'm not going to rush to shoot entire sets with the fish-eye, but I can see some set-ups or ideas where it might convey a threatening mood.

Bound in the Stairwell

Added 20-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, lingerie, redhead, rope bondage

The day before we shot Aerlise, I'd taken delivery of a new portable flash system which worked with the high speed sync and TTL metering on my Sony camera. Steve and I decided to try it out, and we thought we'd trying lighting one of the trickiest areas in the house with it- the stair-well. The stairs in our house are quite nice, but also very tight, and getting any light in there can be really tricky. And since the whole thing is basically a big yellow box, it is really hard to avoid colour casts as well.

What we did to experiment was to poke the light into the scene on the end of a pole, so we could move it around and see how it looked on camera from various positions. We tied poor Aerlise to the stairs (in what was maybe a meaner tie than we'd at first intended- her feet tied through the bannisters actually made it really tricky for her to recover her position if she slid forward as she posed). And then clicked away.

The results are quite unlike our usual style, as you'll see from the first half of the set, where we more or less had the light within the scene rather than projecting in from outside it. We got the light a bit too close to Aerlise and burnt out her skin a bit in some shots, but that's a style all of its own so I've left those shots pretty much as they were rather than trying too hard to recover in post. It's got a kind of Sci-Fi haunted house vibe which I really like.

For the second half of the set we repositioned the light in a more conventional spot down the steps from Aerlise. This is the lighting pattern I've had most luck with in this spot before, and you can see why- it's nicely atmospheric. More horror film haunted house than Sci-Fi. I'm not totally sold on the TTL metering, it seems a bit hit and miss especially if we get the light too close, so I'll probably fall back to manual metering again as is my habit. But being able to flash sync at higher speeds is cool- lets one control the aperture for artistic reasons rather than purely for modulating the amount of light.

The Bondage Biscuit Assault Course Challenge

Added 19-01-2019

Tags: satin, barefoot, jeans, brunette, redhead, rope bondage

Honestly, I go away for an hour and I find cast and crew on the long Restrained Elegance North Wales shoot have come up with... this. The Bondage biscuit assault course challenge! Sophia Smith and Temptress Kate are going to compete in a VERY serious bondage challenge. Both girls are restrained- and have to make their way over an assault course - pausing half-way to devour a biscuit, still in bondage. Then reach the safety scissors on a shelf to claim victory.

Sophia starts by trying to psych out Kate... both girls are frogtied, with wrists together behind their backs. Shuffling on their knees to the first obstacle, a mountain of cushions, doesn't present too many difficulties, but as soon as they try to surmount to pile, both girls are flat on their faces and laughing as they try to regain some measure of control and dignity! Then they have to wriggle forward to get lips on the biscuit and consume then from the plate... which proves FAR more of a challenge than the assault course! Who knew how hard it would be to eat a biscuit (every crumb! that's the rule!) when bound in a frogtie, face-down over a cushion?

Then it is on to part two and the insurmountable obstacle of the SHELF! Much cheating and changing lanes ensures....

But yes. It is a VERY serious bondage challenge. Oh yes.

Ayla Kidnapped

Added 18-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, bedroom, hogtie, blonde, blouse, humiliation, business wear, leg irons, metal bondage, tape gag, pencil skirt

Business girl Ayla Rose is kidnapped on the bed! Hogshackled, with heavy Clejuso cuffs on her slender ankles and wrists, her kidnapped has cruelly silenced her protests with a tape gag while he takes photos of her ready for the ransom note! Then he decides to have some "fun" with her while they are waiting...

Kidnapped in the mists

Added 16-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, blouse, skirt, leg irons, metal bondage, outdoor, topless, ungagged

Beautiful blonde Ariel Anderssen is kidnapped from her car in a remote mountain pass! Handcuffed and leg ironed, her shoes stolen from her, she cannot escape her captors but must await her fate at their hands. And as they undo her top to feast their eyes on her slim, athletic figure, she gets an insight into what the nature of that fate is going to be....

Delta soaked and bound in her Daisy Duke denims

Added 14-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, shorts, brunette, lingerie, denim, rope bondage

When Alexander Lightspear managed to tempt Delta back in front of the camera for Restrained Elegance, he said the main reason he' managed it was because she wanted to play in his studio wet-room. And we get the benefits of that- one of the most stunning models in the world, tied up tight, the cascade of water running over her athletic form and soaking the hemp ropes that confine her. I love the way you can see her trying out poses and putting the tension into her body to make interesting shapes and convey emotions- a master class in how to create and enjoy eroticism in bondage. It's a pleasure and a privilege to have her back!

Just hangin'...

Added 13-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, blonde, strappado, nude, crotch rope, dungeon, ungagged, rope bondage

Gorgeous Chloe is just hangin'... in the dungeon, tied in strappado to the ceiling!

The Discomforts of Home

Added 12-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, blonde, spanking, nipple clamps, sweater, nude, crotch rope, denim, rope bondage

This is a film Ariel and I made with Busby Wilder at a cabin in the woods last year; Busby had kindly allowed us to share it with you!

This is how Busby describes the film:

High-strung hottie Ariel Anderssen loses it when she discovers her absent-minded husband has forgotten to bring the bondage bag along on their getaway weekend. But the clever lad does a quick rummage through their vacation rental and discovers some handy kinky substitutes. So, armed with a clamp clothes hanger, chopsticks, rubber bands, clothespins (or pegs in UK-speak), zip-ties, clothesline, duct tape, plastic wrap and mousetraps, the sadistic spouse macgyvers a BDSM fest that tests and teases and ultimately pleases his subby soulmate. Ariel, ever willing to play, doffs her blouse and skin tight short-shorts for a fetching maid's apron that covers her nether regions just barely and delightfully reveals her pert nipples. Which is a good thing since the clamp hanger is fastened right onto her sensitive breasts. After her wrists and ankles are fastened with zip-ties, the adorable blond dissolves into subspace as she moans and writhes sensually on the couch. Plenty of clamped nipples, curvaceous ass, wrinkled soles and pointed toes are on display. After an intense moment when hubby grabs the hanger to increase her pleasure, Ariel is pleasured even more as the hanger is swapped out for chopstick clamps with rubber bands. While the tit-torture turns the pain slut on, we watch long slow close-ups of her gum-drop areolas suffering and swollen in the stiff little wooden vices. And that's just the beginning.

Next on the program, Ariel, now completely naked, is face-down on the floor with a wooden chair tied onto her back. Her arms are pulled back behind her and her legs are lashed to the legs of the chair. Her long French braid is roped to the back of the chair pulling her head up and back to increase the discomfort. She breathes heavily and softly moans as the camera hungrily caresses every curve of her soft arched body.

But hubby is not through yet as Ariel now finds herself out on the porch with her legs and arms frog-wrapped in cling film. Her long braid is tied back to a crotch rope that pulls her head back increasing the stress of the position. As she wobbles and pants on her elbows and knees, her amazing bottom, legs and feet are on full display. There are even a few glimpses of her sweet, sweet pussy. Suddenly, the wooden spoon comes into play as hubby starts paddling her ass with it. She cries out from the pain so she is forced to clamp her tongue between two sharpened pencils held together with rubber bands. The spoon beating then continues until Ariel, still plastic wrapped and tongue clamped, is brought up on her knees and six clothes pins/pegs are forced onto her already tender, tortured breasts. She drools a bit as the agony of her situation engulfs her.

Ariel's final ordeal finds her duct taped at the ankles, the knees, the wrists and the elbows. When she dares to criticize the position as "not exactly extreme", her bondage boyfriend raises the stakes (and the pain) with mousetraps on her nipples. When she complains loudly that it's now too extreme, he silences her with a tape gag across her mouth. Ariel suffers beautifully, bound with tape and tortured by the devilish devices that rattle creepily as she moans and contorts in the grip of their nipple-crushing force. Who'da thunk you could have this much fetish fun with simple stuff lying all around the house?

(P.S. I wish I were capable of writing such excitingly-salacious prose to describe our videos! I'm quite good at filming this sort of thing, but when it comes to describing it in suitably-titillating, tempting terms to try to persuade people to buy it, I'm totally terrible!

Getting Close

Added 11-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, barefoot, bedroom, shackles, sm factory, brunette, leg irons, chains, metal bondage, collar, nude

This lovely metal bondage set of Natalia is fifty percent experiments with a new lens- a 24 mm macro "probe" lens which lets one get the lens right into the middle of the action, focus super-close on interesting details but still have a wide enough field of view to be able to tell what's going on in the rest of the scene. I thought it would allow for some interesting new perspectives, and so it does! Check out the pics with the more golden tone (and if you want to confirm which are the new lens, they're the ones with nothing listed for lens details in the EXIF for the shots- the lens is manual-only, not even any electrical contacts).

It certainly lets one appreciate up close and personal the perfection that is Natalia Forrest nude in metal bondage- enjoy!

Lauren Louise and the Shoe Thief

Added 09-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, shoes, blouse, skirt, pantyhose, rope bondage, tights

Oh no! The Shoe Thief has committed another outrage! This time it is stunning Lauren Louise who has fallen foul of his wicked intentions, trapped in the cellar of the holiday home where she was enjoying a little get-away-from-it-all time! Now she's tied up and helpless as he makes off with her money and her designer heels!

There's BEARS in them there woods!

Added 07-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, blonde, lingerie, nude, outdoor, topless, ungagged, rope bondage

Ariel's left out to fend for herself with the wildlife, deep in the woods, until she begs for rescue!

Many thanks to Busby Wilder for sponsoring and organising this shoot, and kindly allowing us to use the results on Restrained Elegance!

The Belle, but not the ball

Added 06-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, globe cuffs, barefoot, leg irons, metal bondage, collar

Love this set of stunning fitness-model-turned-bondage-girl Czech Beauty! The first time you work with someone you never really know what they are going to bring to the shoot- partially in terms of clothes and outfits, but mostly in terms of how much they "get it". Can they pull of the combination of righteous indignation and super-sexy pose that really makes for a great bondage photostory? Czech Beauty really can- just look at these photos! I love the way a really good model can sell the whole "I am dressed up in my best party frock like a Princess but you have locked me in a wicked steel globe cuff and gagged me so I can't go to the ball. I'm outraged but also slightly intrigued to have managed to captivate you to such a degree that you take such ungentlemanly action against me! Is your motive lust, jealousy, possessiveness, or is it even for my own good? Is there a cruse of which I know nothing waiting for me at the castle, or perchance has the wicked Duke himself given orders that I be captured and brought to his lair?"

Maximum Metal

Added 05-01-2019

Tags: ballgag, glasses, handcuffs, bedroom, self bondage, blonde, leg irons, lingerie, metal bondage, nude, nude in metal, thumbcuffs, toecuffs

Chloe has heard that you like watching models put on as much metal bondage as they can. And she really enjoys playing with all the metal! So let's go! Start with the legs and work our way up- nice and tight! Let's slip off the dress and get a bit more comfortable. Then the selection of handcuffs and thumb-and toe-cuffs... maybe trapped toes and trapped ankles? Yes! Definitely... but maybe one more pair on the ankles, to really keep them secure and weighted down? How about the hands? Only trouble is, how is she going to get gagged? I'm sure we can work something out... we've got this nice big red ballgag just here....

Tasty as Liquorice

Added 04-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, brunette, cloth gag, nude, rope bondage

Super-sexy Sophia Smith spread and tied to tease in the stairwell! The alternating black and white ropes are a lovely touch, courtesy of Steve- it reminded us of a liquorice allsort. Tasty enough to eat!

Scarves

Guest Galleries

Added 03-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, scarf bondage, blindfold, blonde, cloth gag, nude

Hi everyone! Here is a guest gallery from another RE member who has been inspired to take up bondage photography, Gerhard Grey! He shot with Ariel recently and has kindly agreed to let us share the results with you.

Flame Haired Temptress

Added 02-01-2019

Tags: ballgown, barefoot, leg irons, melodrama, cloth gag, metal bondage, dress, ungagged, yoke

Temptress Kate looking at her stunning best in this lovely metal bondage feature- barefoot, bit gagged and leg ironed, locked in an inescapable metal yoke. When people ask me what I shoot, "ballgowns and bondage" is one of my standard replies- and this is why! Oh, and what it is about yokes and corridors? It always looks so awesomely dramatic. Something about lead-in lines and the way the yoke concentrates attention to the model's face? Whatever it is, Kate certainly hits every high spot about it- she looks awesome!

Amanda's Arrival - Nude in Metal!

Added 01-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, hogtie, leg irons, metal bondage, nude, nude in metal

Please welcome the lovely Amanda to Restrained Elegance, making her debut as a nude-in-metal girl! She loves the way the cold steel encloses her wrists and ankles the restrictive feeling when it is turned into a hog-shackle, the way it still lets her pout and pose and show off but absolutely definitely stops her escaping or getting free... and allows her to show off her modelling skills as she poses very stylishly and sexily for the camera!

Behind the scenes: Ariel, Natalia and the Mob

Bonuses, Behind-The-Scenes & Outtakes

Added 01-01-2019

Tags: barefoot, metal bondage, documentary, uniform

Hywel's note: when shooting our two-part slave training custom video extravaganza with Ariel, Zoe and Natalia, I knew I wanted to cover multiple angles and be able to swap between them. And I wanted some unusual angles which we couldn't usually get, like from on the table in the study which was going to be needed as the laptop's point of view for when Ariel was addressing the mob council by web link.

The best way to do this was to leave a GoPro in place- and because I was going to be more than busy enough with a master wide camera and a closeup camera, I decided to just leave the GoPro running. Which meant we ended up with lots of entertaining behind-the-scenes footage, which I've edited together to give you an idea of what I have to put up with in the way of off-camera chatter on shoot days!

Bondage Summer Camp

Added 31-12-2018

Tags: rope bondage, barefoot, satin, blonde, blouse, silk, jeans, outdoor, topless

We don't have summer camps in Britain, really. Which is possibly why we find the whole idea so fascinating! Ariel is convinced that bondage must happen a lot at proper summer camps in the USA, so when we had chance to visit New England, she wanted to bring her vision of camp to life for you :-)

Many thanks to the fantastic Busby Wilder who organised and sponsored this whole trip- and was then kind enough to say that we could use the sets on Restrained Elegance!

Under Arrest!

Added 30-12-2018

Tags: barefoot, bedroom, handcuffs, blonde, leg irons, metal bondage, dress, ungagged

She's been shimmying her way up and down the coast, conning the credulous out of their city bonuses. Inspector Smith had to admire her, in a way. She never stole from anyone who couldn't afford it or ran a con against anyone who wasn't basically a professional con-man in the city themselves. Nonetheless, it was his job to bring her in, and brought in she would be! He cornered her at the Hotel d'Orleans, confronted her in her room and quickly locked her in speed-cuffs and heavy-weight Clejuso cuffs. She was known to be a slippery customer- a bit of an escape artist, possibly even a contortionist! Of course, she denied all knowledge of the crimes, claiming she was an innocent, a small-town accountant come to the coast on vacation. Neither of them believed a word of it, but it was the game they had to play. Secretly, Inspector Smith hoped she would wriggle her way free as soon as the local flat-foots took over her custody. In a secret part of his heart, he wondered what she did with the money. Romantic Robin Hood notions- or just selfishness, the same as all the rest of them?

Hywel's note: I've saved up editing this set from our first shoot with Lucy Lauren because I knew they were just gorgeous. That winter late afternoon shaft of sunlight has been one of the treats of shooting in our new(ish) house, and adding a little bit of haze with a cine-film hazer, plus a tiny touch of fill from the practical room light and a light panel really lift the mood. You will notice though that some of the shots are a little out of focus or camera-shaky, especially if you zoom in to 100% on the full-sized images. I've subsequently figured out that one needs to keep a shutter speed of 1/200th of a second if one can manage it, in situations like this where the model is struggling and emoting "live in motion" rather than doing very static posed shots. I've left the shots in because I think they add a bit of an edgier feel to the set and it's really only noticeable if you zoom right in to the full-size shots.

DA Captured By The Mob

Added 29-12-2018

Tags: ballgag, girlgirl, barefoot, handcuffs, blonde, shackles, humiliation, slave training, business wear, sm factory, leg irons, cane, lesbian, spanking, chains, metal bondage, collar, corporal punishment, nude, nude in metal, uniform, riding crop

Mobsters Zoe and Hywel have captured and enslaved their erstwhile friend and employer, Natalia, faking her death in order to be able to take possession of her house and her fortune. But there is a loose end- Ariel Anderssen, lawyer and current assistant DA. They didn't want her poking her elegant nose in to the affair or getting suspicious, so the pair decide to strike while the iron is hot- and kidnap Ariel to join her friend as their sex slave!

Of course, this delights their mob connections, many of whom have friends put away by the crusading lawyer! They have strong opinions on what humiliations and punishments Ariel must endure now that she is property of the mob council! Stripped naked, collared and led in on a dog lead, Ariel must face the council and her the fate to which they condemn her!

Then her training begins. She is shocked to find her friend Natalia already seemingly broken and resigned to her new life. Ariel will not give in so easily! But Zoe is implacable and relentless and shows her no mercy- inflicting harsh punishments on the posh lady lawyer's behind with a brutal riding crop and split bamboo cane! Can Ariel learn the skills of a slavegirl from Natalia before Zoe loses patience and condemns her to an even worse fate?

Hywel's note: this is the second instalment of a two-part custom video commissioned by a customer who loved our film "The Underground" (available here) and wanted to see more of specific elements of the slave training!