This is a lot of the reason my bondage pictures look different than others.
It has led me to really focus on dressing knots and getting the tightness of wraps even.
It changes the equipment that I consider necessary. The third major piece of equipment that I owned was a wall-to-wall mirror in the playroom. I got it after I had purchased and felt comfortable with a sling/stand and a workout bench with attached chains.
The four carefully measured pre-cut sections were installed by a crew of 3 workmen. A piece of trim at the top disguises the fact that the walls are never quite square in a century old building.
During the installation I set up my laptop against the far wall and was telecommuting, but available to answer any questions from the workmen.
Part of topping and service topping is watching closely. I watch the things that catch people's attention. But I also watch for what people avoid looking at.
The workmen were fairly obvious in avoiding looking at the two pieces of large bondage furniture in the room.
Their attempts to avoid looking at the sling and bondage bench were made impotent by the fact that they were working on a wall-to-wall mirror. The reflections were a bit harder to ignore.
When the dungeon was installed the workers were called back to install the replacement mirror.
Visuals were an important design element of the dungeon. The choice of non-black walls is about creating a visual difference between floor and walls.
Lighting the dungeon is difficult. The dungeon needs to be bright enough for me to get excited, but dim enough that others identify the space as a dungeon. With narrow 40 watt spot lamps in the cans, and the halogen sconces turned off, the dungeon has classic dungeon lighting.
For dominance scenes, I will sometimes take the lighting one step dimmer, bringing the sub into the room lit with a single downlight, a blindfold set out in the middle of the narrow pool of light.
I have made a number of attempts to increase the brightest illumination of the room. My first attempt involved replacing the spots with photographic modeling lights. I didn't realize how much extra heat photographic lights generate with the same wattage, and the plastic back of the cans heated until it started out-gassing. The unamused bottom was at the time chained to the floor and ceiling.
My next attempt involved LED spots. After a full set of sizing difficulties I found a non-par solution. Photographs gained a further sparkling clarity. But the color has tended towards a room filling bluish white. This tends to make the room feel like more of an operating room, less of a dungeon, and the theatrics of a single spotlight don't work as well.
I understand that my visual fetish also explains much of the difference between what I like done to me and what I like to do to others.
The suspension sleepsack is a perfect example. After I was put into it at MisterS, I knew that I needed to find a way to have that in my home. But it isn't as exciting for me to top these scenes.
When I was tied to a chain fence at the dungeon of MasterZ, I didn't relax and just enjoy the bondage until I was hooded.
Despite this, my visual fetish sometimes makes it difficult for me to blindfold others. I sometimes focus on the visuals, not realizing that others might also have a need to not see.
Most people that come into my dungeon will indulge my visual fetish, allowing me to take photos (whether or not I am allowed to post them).
Seeing boys in bondage makes me happy.
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