Kate Upton was sent to Antarctica for a bikini shoot for Sports Illustrated and on coming home her body started shutting down due to reportedly -45 degree's temperature. She started losing her eyesight and her hearing.
The things models will do for the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition!
The Antarctica??? I would never ask a model to wear a bikini in the an environment where she could get frostbite! That is too high a price to pay, and the images could easily be photo shopped to look like those that were shot. That's crazy!!!
HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
Patrick Walberg wrote: The things models will do for the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition!
The Antarctica??? I would never ask a model to wear a bikini in the an environment where she could get frostbite! That is too high a price to pay, and the images could easily be photo shopped to look like those that were shot. That's crazy!!!
I wouldn't ask a model to wear a bikini in such freezing temperature's either. I'd be worried about the model dying of Pneumonia.
Looking at the images you would wonder if they were photo shopped in.
Select Models wrote: HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
Select Models wrote: HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
gl-amour wrote: A load of publicity BS. Kettela's team would have a medic or a qualified first responder to monitor for signs of hypothermia in that environment.
Yeh, I didn't think of that. They would need a full medical team with them and a fully equipped medical unit.
gl-amour wrote: A load of publicity BS. Kettela's team would have a medic or a qualified first responder to monitor for signs of hypothermia in that environment.
Yep, there were so many people on that boat they barely had room for the model and photographer. Sports Illustrated isn't going to just send some dude to the Antarctic in a dingy with one of the top models on the planet.
It's NOT necessary. It hardly makes a difference to most people, and I doubt that the majority of the general public would ever know unless it were leaked. However, it's the publicity that counts. Many stupid things are done for publicity!
As I stated before in one of these threads re: shooting in freezing temperatures - it's shock value and very dangerous even to be out in sub-30 degree weather like this, never mind sub-zero. If they wanted a shot of a model in a bikini in the snow, the shoot could have been done anywhere there is snow, they chose this particular place purely for shock value.
For many, the natural tendency when we feel uncomfortable is to get quiet and shut down, only making things worse. For anyone who is thinking about shooting outside in freezing temperatures (nevermind Antarctica) they need to make sure they're communicating openly and loudly about how they're feeling and if/when they need breaks.
The problem is, you can find similar landscape in areas that aren't Antartica. I know Iceland isn't WARM, but it's certainly warmer than -45. You could certainly get similar shots in parts of Iceland.
Select Models wrote: HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
True..but don't think for a second that it wouldn't get out that she was shot in a comfy studio.. instead of out in the elements.....
It's NOT necessary. It hardly makes a difference to most people, and I doubt that the majority of the general public would ever know unless it were leaked. However, it's the publicity that counts. Many stupid things are done for publicity!
I never said it was necessary did I? But she knew the hazards and could have said no.
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Who knows how her health was actually affected. It could just be part of the publicity for her to claim her 'body was shutting down' which is actually very subjective. Many tourists experience a similar 'shut down' even in warm locations like Mexico (yes they also usually involve too much tequila). Doesn't really sound like the experiences of someone facing death from the elements. And I doubt she really had frostbite where her toes turned black and had to be cut off. She probably just had some wind burn and an active imagination.
Let me assure you. It was not a -45 degree day. On a -45 degree day every breath looks like a cloud and ice builds up on the eyelashes. Exposed skin turns white and blueish in a minute, starting from your hands. Your nose starts running very quickly. You start shivering in 30 seconds if you don't wear stuff. At -45 degree mechanical stuff start breaking up. At -45 degrees life slows down, even in the North.
My guesstimate is for around freezing mark. with sun that gives you fair amount of warmth; wet rocks on the beach, spring looking melt of the snow at the beach etc. and the rest is propaganda.
I cancelled a shoot with well weathered Canadians at -20 C (-10F). What the crew was wearing is irrelevant - that's what you are given as part of Antarctic "cruise" and what you feel like wearing if you just flew from 80,90,100 degree weather.
Raven Photography wrote: Kate Upton was sent to Antarctica for a bikini shoot for Sports Illustrated and on coming home her body started shutting down due to reportedly -45 degree's temperature. She started losing her eyesight and her hearing.
Patrick Walberg wrote: The things models will do for the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition!
The Antarctica??? I would never ask a model to wear a bikini in the an environment where she could get frostbite! That is too high a price to pay, and the images could easily be photo shopped to look like those that were shot. That's crazy!!!
I appreciate that some businesses still see a legitimacy to a location shoot rather than faking it.
now if only they could have gotten some good photos.
I like the cover shot. The last one...I'm wondering if they cropped her feet off because she's wearing boots they didn't like. And I'm wondering if the exposure on her was off because she's got this glow around her legs from the background. I've seen that when I try to preserve background exposure while correcting foreground elements.
I had a shoot with a model in Wrightwood CA, that modeled in a cocktail dress in the snow. Well the sun was out keeping her warm although the air temp was in the 20's. One of these days I'll get to posting it in my portfolio. Antartica is stupid cold.
Christopher Hartman wrote: I like the cover shot. The last one...I'm wondering if they cropped her feet off because she's wearing boots they didn't like. And I'm wondering if the exposure on her was off because she's got this glow around her legs from the background. I've seen that when I try to preserve background exposure while correcting foreground elements.
to me it looks like she was placed in the background. Nothing abut her is interacting, she seems cut and pasted in. The lighting does not match inany way. I have seen better jobs done with the model pasted into the backdrop.
What was the point of going all that way and not getting something like these (but with her in the "swimsuitisssue" style)
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gl-amour wrote: A load of publicity BS. Kettela's team would have a medic or a qualified first responder to monitor for signs of hypothermia in that environment.
Select Models wrote: HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
it feels like the worst possible posing, lighting, god she looks like she is just blank in every way. If this was in ANTM we would be voting her off the show
it feels like the worst possible posing, lighting, god she looks like she is just blank in every way. If this was in ANTM we would be voting her off the show
Agreed, half of them look composited and flat. What a great way to spend money..
The derailment of this year's edition reminds me of the Pirelli 2013 calendar. Both have fundamental flaws that don't adhere to the legacy of their respective brands: wherein SI is pushing the sale of its app and Pirelli is targeting a wider target audience.
-45 and bikini? I don't think so, and I live up here in northern Minnesota USA where just a few weeks ago we had our typical -35F on the thermometer (-50F wind chill), so I know what that feels like and no fricken way can a model in a bikini be in that more than about 60 seconds, not without (and maybe they did this) several portable high BTU heaters blowing on her. At -35F you can toss a cup of hot coffee in the air and it falls as ice crystals, you can use a bananna as a hammer, car seats are like concrete, I live through that type of cold a couple of weeks a year where i live (because we have an air force airbase here, they even used my city to test the Air Force One helicopter to be sure it could function in extreme cold).
Wow that is so fake...theres a penguin hanging out in the second picture. Come on. NO wild penguin is gonna just stand there while theres 5 people talking, moving around, with big scary flashing lights and softboxes and all that. All wildlife would be out of sight. Deffinately photoshopped. And she would be losing consciousness before she lost eyesight and hearing...your body doesnt shut down your senses to keep you warm during hypothermia. All of her limbs would be frozen numb before that happened, and im sure by that time they would be smart enough to start passively warming her...
Randall_Oelerich wrote: -45 and bikini? I don't think so, and I live up here in northern Minnesota USA where just a few weeks ago we had our typical -35F on the thermometer (-50F wind chill), so I know what that feels like and no fricken way can a model in a bikini be in that more than about 60 seconds, not without (and maybe they did this) several portable high BTU heaters blowing on her. At -35F you can toss a cup of hot coffee in the air and it falls as ice crystals, you can use a bananna as a hammer, car seats are like concrete, I live through that type of cold a couple of weeks a year where i live (because we have an air force airbase here, they even used my city to test the Air Force One helicopter to be sure it could function in extreme cold).
Ummm...what?!? -35F is only like -2Celsius....thats BARELY below freezing...no you would not be able to use a banana as a hammer or watch coffee frreze in the air lol. wow. Come to canada sometime where we get -40 CELSIUS...and ive actually thrown a pot of boiling water outside to see it turn into slush before it his the ground... -35f is tshirt weather lol come one!
Ummm...what?!? -35F is only like -2Celsius....thats BARELY below freezing...no you would not be able to use a banana as a hammer or watch coffee frreze in the air lol. wow. Come to canada sometime where we get -40 CELSIUS...and ive actually thrown a pot of boiling water outside to see it turn into slush before it his the ground... -35f is tshirt weather lol come one!
You got numbers wrong. -35F is -37C (easy to remember -40 is -40). Duluth is not any warmer than our corner iof the world.
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