I am very interested in trying some WAM at home or another place, using the battront at first to setup the scène but was wondering how the "after session" is looking like and organised. Considering the amount of sharing cream, pies, costard.... that is being used in a bath, I can't imagine that it goes smoothly down the pipe. As well, if organising it in a living room with a battront a little far away, how do you manage it? This feels to me a little tricky.
Is there any video like "behind the scene" showing the setup before and after?
From what I've done in the bathtub, as long as you don't go crazy with the substance, just plain water is great to thin things out, but I would recommend taking drain-o or something to the pipe before and after the session, just to help maximize flow potential.
As far as setting up in the living room, I've heard of people getting painter drop cloths, or a tarp of some type, and wrapping everything up in that to move it or toss it out. Never done that myself, just throwing what I've heard out there from similar threads and passing it on.
Shaving foam (and natrasol/methyl gunge powder) is designed to wash away with water so that's 100% fine. Whenever I've done anything at home the amount of custard or cream has been minimal (only a few litres at most) and that's always washed down the drain absolutely fine.
Solid stuff like pie crusts are a problem but as EroticTaster mentioned you'd be fine collecting all that on dust sheets/tarp and throwing it away (I've always done that anyway and the only thing I've had to worry about is whether the bin men have a look inside and wonder what I'm doing).
If in the bath, you can use water to thin out the mess. Most of it will then go down a plughole and any large clumps can be squished down using your hand and shredded by rubbing them down against the grille bit. Basically with a bit of persuasion it will usually go down.
Make sure you know where the water drains out to though. Build ups of mess can appear at any open drain areas.
If you're in a different room, use plastic sheeting, and just wrap up all the mess atthe end and bin the lot. Beware though, it can get really heavy if you've had a big session. I once had to use a spade and wheelbarrow to shift what felt like a ton weight in squished cakes!!!!
Ha ha! I can field this one guys. I've tried everything over the years and here what works best, wherever you are shooting:
X2 transparent plastic ground sheets from Homebase (you can go elsewhere but these are the best ones) if you're shooting on a wipeable surface like tiles or laminate then get two standard ones (about £8 each) if you're shooting on something that will stain like carpet for Gods sake get one standard sheet and one thick one (around £12). Put one down on the ground (thick one if carpeted obviously) and the other one as a backdrop. These things are huge and will protect everything in the room. Secure them to the ground and walls will gaffer tape, masking is too weak and electrical too fiddly. Then get about 6 heavy duty bin liners and put them at the side. As the gunge gets poured the containers can go into one or two of them as you go. At the end strip off and clothes into another binliner. Take this to the shower with you and put the clothes on the ground in the cubical as you wash. Tread on them to squeeze out the mess and then when you're done back into the bin liner for the journey to the washing machine. Then back to the mess room once you're cleaned up. Unstick the backsheet and spread it over the ground sheet. Get a bin liner stretched out ready and then fold the ground sheet in on itself from the corners carefully. Then lift up straight into the waiting bin liner and double or treble bag. Then you can either chuck it in your rubbish or take it to the dump. The mess will be so far inside that it won't seep out and if the bag splits at all it just looks like transparent plastic rubbish inside.
Stick with this method and you won't go wrong. Tiding after my shoots takes about 15 minutes using this method and you'd never know what had been going on, except for the smells but a few scented candles can sort that out!
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