Hi all, I recently launched a new Patreon that is dedicated to pretty models with dirty bare feet: https://www.patreon.com/shoelessgirlmedia. Would love to get feedback from this community, and I'm happy to answer questions here.

My focus is on women in shorts or skirts with extremely dirty feet (by the end of the shoots, anyway!) All models are over 18, and there is no nudity. Most of the photo sets were taken in Southern California.

I'll be posting one set of photos per week, and so far I've got two models featured, but more have already been photographed and are in the pipeline.

Here are samples of the first two models, Laney (the blond) and Sarina.





I'll keep posting samples here as more photo sets go up. Please enjoy, let me know what you think, and I hope to see you there!

Zane

Hey Zane,

welcome to the forum :-)

your example pictures look great,

i´m not to used to patroen so cannot comment to much on their architecture

but here are my initial thoughts:
- write the image resolution of the pictures somehwere in the description

- post some example images in full resolution so that potential clients will
know in advance what quality they can expect, to me, cropped and low-resolution pictures are rather a potential turn-off

- price tag for the moment is perhaps a bit high, i rather would start with a lower price (early bird rate) and then gradually increase with the amount of pictures on your patreon

do you also plan to do videos, or just photos?

from past experience, content creators like you, how often will participate here on the board, will get much more respect and perhaps sales, than just the ones who will use this forum as advertising, just like anywhere in social media marketing, the more you put into to, the more you will get out of it

cheers and good luck, glad to have you her
shifter

Welcome! Your site looks it has lots of potential. Like you I also love extremely dirty feet or soles rather. What i also like is a photo story to go with the dirty sole pics. Meaning there are pics of the models walking barefoot in different areas. Like going on a barefoot journey and then finally a pic of the dirty soles. You live in a great area for barefooting. Not sure if you are near Los Angeles but my wife soles got really black from walking on a sidewalk for a few minutes once (it can be smoggy there!) I hope your site will grow.

Thanks for the welcome, shifter and jwdf88, and for the excellent advice. This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I'll be acting on several of these points in the next few days...

I plan to do some videos too. I actually have a couple in the pipeline, but my early photo shoots didn't include them.

Most of my shoots are in Orange County, so not too far from LA. If you know where to look, there are some extremely dirty locations. The lack of rainfall also helps - the soot, oil, etc. doesn't get washed away for months, especially in the summer and early fall.

If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions, I'll respond as quickly as I can!

Zane

Zane, welcome to CF! I really like what I see so far, and the majority of us think that warm weather, skirts and shorts are the best accompaniment to bare feet.

The European members of this board such as myself are certainly interested to see how U.S barefoot girls get on in public, compared to Germany etc. We understand the U.S to be somewhat uptight (NSx3 signs for instance, even though they are thoroughly unconstitutional), but we also realise that probably California is going to be more laid back than say Boston or NJ.

One thing we'd like to see from you is maybe a chat/interview (in a separate video - NOT as part of the shoot) with the model.

Among the things some of us would die to know about the CF girls in Russia are whether they are FT barefooters, what they like/dislike about it etc. On CF, all we see is the model - usually once and once only - turn up, do a bit of a walk around a neighborhood, metro station, shopping mall, the last part is a "foot show" real up close stuff. Then they walk away, the shoot ends, and they are never seen again.

This is in stark contrast to the mid-2000s, when models would typically do multiple shoots and provide a real sense of narrative.

I'd also like to ask you, how long have you known about CF and who is your favourite model? These are mine http://forum.city-feet.com/index.php?showt...indpost&p=24379

Would be interesting to see if we have similar tastes!

Welcome and good luck with your project!

You say that you focus on girls wearing skirts that´s why I´d like to ask you if you could make them look more formal. Frankly, few things are more sexy than a young secretary/ manager walking barefoot in public. And if you managed to shoot a video showing what such a girl is up to during her lunch break, it would be quite a blast!

And what do you make of the weather? Any chance to have a session when it isn´t that hot?

Here are three Russian beauties to illustrate my point.

Alexandra
http://www.city-feet.com/static/galleries/890/sample1.jpg

Lena
http://www.city-feet.com/static/galleries/531/sample0.jpg

Nadya
http://www.city-feet.com/static/galleries/211/sample0.jpg

Cheers!

Aha.. at least one of the new forum members does not post crappy spam.. cool! Hello there, and welcome to CF Forum!

So you are trying to get a slice of our pie, huh? Well.. it's already pretty crowded here, and the pie has been shrinking lately..
Yet I deffo see some strenghts in your project.. if you are smart enough to exploit them fully, you might become a serious threat to us geezers.
I guess that you are not expecting advice from me.. I am not into helping competitors to dig my own grave..
But don't worry.. there are some lads here who will be super-happy to help you drive The Feetosopher and his old-fashioned paysites into the coffin..

Whatever.. I have always respected my competitors, and I will make no exception for you, as long as you play a fair game.

If you are from SoCal.. I guess that you know this tune.. The Eagles - New Kid In Town
Best of luck, and cheers from Italy!

Sorry about this guy Zane. He will make your life a misery on here: http://forum.city-feet.com/index.php?act=ST&f=2&t=7520

Oh sorry Feeto, there I go again posting old material...

wow, my friend feetosopher,
you know how much i like your work, but your reply and choice of wording here really does suprise me.

Why are you surprised, amico? There is a new vendor in the market, to my knowledge he is the only footographer based in the USA
(which are still the biggest market for adult entertainment) who covers female barefooting..
he seems to be a smart dude, and he is new to the Forum.. why should I not greet him and wish him good luck?
I have always believed in free competition, if competitors play a fair game.. free competition promotes an increase in the average quality level of the offer,
and is surely beneficial to consumers!
I have NEVER shown a hostile attitude towards ANY of my competitors.. my hard-nosed S.O.B. side is only for my beloved arch-enemy Duffman847..

Thanks all for the welcomes and suggestions!

@Duffman847,
Barefoot girls are definitely not as common in the US as they seem to be in Europe, at least not anymore. A lot has changed in the past 15 or 20 years. When I was a kid, girls and young women would routinely show up barefoot to house parties, festivals, amusement parks, and so on. When I was in high school, I remember a girl who went barefoot on a class trip into the city. I don’t think she even brought shoes along. By the end of the day, her feet were caked in black filth, but nobody seemed to mind.

Nowadays, many American women will walk around their yards or neighborhoods barefoot, but they won’t ordinarily go anywhere else without shoes. So far, most (but not all!) of my models fit that mold. Sarina, for example, told me that she’d sometimes worked barefoot in a family-owned garage, but she’d never walked around the city barefoot before. I haven’t found any full-time barefooters yet, but I’m still looking.

The good news is that almost all my models so far have been very cool, very open to barefooting, and seemed to genuinely enjoy the shoots. A couple of them took it as a challenge to get their feet dirtier than the previous models – you’ll see them coming up soon.

I’ve been aware of CF for a few years and was a fan of postmodernwomen and barefootfoever before that. Those were the sites that inspired me to start doing this myself. Some of my favorite CF models are:

Natasha http://www.city-feet.com/models/213/view
Margarita http://www.city-feet.com/models/75/view
Maria http://www.city-feet.com/models/239/view
Alisa http://www.city-feet.com/models/152/view
Anna http://www.city-feet.com/models/210/view
Valeria http://www.city-feet.com/models/226/view
Maria http://www.city-feet.com/models/172/view
Alyona http://www.city-feet.com/models/145/view
Julia http://www.city-feet.com/models/32/view
Nastya http://www.city-feet.com/models/218/view

@bfwatcher,
I love the formal attire idea and wish I’d thought of it for the first round of shoots. Will keep it in mind for future photo sets.

The weather in Southern California is almost always hot, though I am sometimes in other states where the weather is cooler. The only time of year when SoCal gets cool (relatively) is during the rainy season, which is not my favorite time to shoot, mainly because the ground gets so clean.

@feetosopher,
I’ve admired your work for a while – thanks for the greeting! My hope is that I can help increase the size of the pie rather than steal market share. Going to Patreon is part of that strategy, but it may or may not pay off. Regardless, should be fun to give it a try.

Zane

You are most welcome, Zane!
Your hope.. is my hope too!
And yes.. the fact that you have opted for Patreon is surely a smart move towards that goal.
Again.. best of luck!

P.S. you can count 100% on a friendly attitude towards you from my side..
contrary to what that launch pad for bullshit, and Geordie pain in the ass called Duffman847 says..

Postmodernwomen was great in the day. Excellent choices there, Alyona is my favourite model of all time, and I'd love to see more of 1st Maria - still hopeful for an encore as she only went live last year.

Julia is an all-time favourite for many, if only for that yellow top/black miniskirt combo.

The first two girls on your list won contests run by myself on the polls section between 2015 and 2018. They don't happen anymore, but there's still plenty of interesting polls in the section which generate some lively debate!

Alisa with the shorts and t-shirt is a real cracker too. Not necessarily looks-wise, but because she's one of just a few select models in the city with NOTHING in their hands, and no visible tan marks. This makes her appear a bit crazed and unpredictable (sorry for nicking your idea michael0218 but you are right about that )

Since you're quite familiar with this site and an avid shooter, which models do you think are genuinely into it and which are just in for the money? It's harder to tell with the ones who debuted from around 2008 onwards.

Are there any CF girls you would say are more often barefoot, judging by their toe spread, arches, callouses etc?

Thanks for your answer, Zane. I´m glad that you are willing to add this feature into your repertoire and at the same time I hope that your models don´t find it too challenging to carry it out. You know to be barefoot in your beach clothes is one thing but to kick off your shoes and peel off your stockings if you are sporting your office attire is quite another.

Speaking of rainy season, as far as I´m concerned no probs whatsoever. Everybody knows that feet don´t get that dirty if the ground is wet. Apart from that girls look damn sexy when it is raining! Check out Vasilisa for instance.

Cheers!

http://www.city-feet.com/static/galleries/913/sample3.jpg

http://www.city-feet.com/static/galleries/910/sample2.jpg

Based on the photos, it's hard to tell who the frequent barefooters might be. I always had Margarita and the most recent Maria figured for possible barefooters, based on the apparent toughness of their soles. Alisa seemed to be enjoying herself on the shoot (it's hard to fake genuine enthusiasm over the course of a whole shoot), but her feet didn't look tough enough for a frequent barefooter.

It's much easier to tell when I'm actually shooting with a model. The women who are comfortable being barefoot will walk on hot or uneven payment without complaining or needing frequent breaks. Some of them might just be badasses, but when I've asked, the ones who seem comfortable usually tell me they go barefoot a lot.

Another thing I've noticed is that for some reason, women with tougher soles seem to get dirty more quickly. I'm not sure why that would be, and maybe I'm wrong, but there could be something to it.

Some models may be averse to it, but I think at least a few will be willing...