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  1. So far the most impressive holding feats I've witnessed have been by women. One female friend came with me on a photo safari, looking for migratory wildlife. We met at 7am and headed out to some locations that I knew of from prior visits plus suggestions from other photographers. On the way to the second location we stopped a coffee shop, and I got a coffee and she got a protein shake, which she had guzzled by the time we pulled out of the drive-thru. When we arrived at the next location I used the bushes, and at around 12:45 she said, "I'm hungry and I have to pee really bad, but I can handle it." Due to sighting some short eared owls (which tend to be hard to find) we ended up staying in that area, wandering a bit to look for wildlife, until a bit after 5pm. We stopped at a gas station at around 5:15. Another girl I went hiking with lasted even longer -- a full 11 hours from when she asked me to stop at a bathroom. A couple of models I did photo shoots with were also impressive. One I picked up at around 7am, and we drove around three hours to our location. At around 8:30 or so she asked if we could stop so that she could use a bathroom, and I said there was a portapotty at the location. She said that worked for her, and didn't bring it up again. There wasn't a portapotty where we parked, but she didn't say anything about it. On the way back I stopped at a gas station, which was probably around 6pm. She went inside to use the bathroom (yes, for the first time since I'd picked her up), came back out and told me that they didn't have one but that it was fine. I dropped her off two hours later when we got back to the city. Another girl was meeting me at my place, supposedly at 8am. She was going to drop her husband off at at work (which from where she lived was about an hour without traffic delays) then head to my place. She got there at around 8:30. We went to pick up the makeup artist, and then headed for our location. The makeup artist asked for a stop about an hour and a half out to get a coffee. She went into the gas station to use the bathroom while waiting for the coffee. The model didn't order coffee because it would make her pee and she didn't want to have to pee... but she didn't use the bathroom when she had the chance. We got to the location at around noon, and left a bit after 4. Right when we were starting, I heard her talking with the makeup artist and saying that she should have peed. Even though we stopped for gas on the way back, she didn't use the opportunity to pee (actually, neither did the makeup artist). The two hour drive back turned into three hours because of an unexpected traffic jam, so we didn't get back until after 7pm. The model said she wanted to use the bathroom at the makeup artist's house, and I said we'd be back at my place pretty soon. She responded by saying she was going to explode, so she couldn't wait that long. Unless she stopped to pee when she dropped her husband off at work, she must have gone for 12-13 hours without peeing that day. One model stayed at my place, so I made coffee and breakfast before leaving. We each had a 20oz cup of coffee and then headed out. It was a little over 3 hours to our location. Throughout the day she drank the green tea I'd made (for warmth), in a 1/2 liter bottle, and she also drank as much water as I did. I had to pee when we arrived, and again close to the end of the day before we started heading back, but she didn't pee at all until an hour after we got back to my place -- a total of around 15 hours. Another model brought a makeup artist on the shoot with her. The model peed in the bushes during the shoot, but the makeup artist didn't. We were on location for around six hours, about an hour walk from the car. As we were starting back to the car, the makeup artist said she really had to pee. It was close to four and half hours total until we got back to her place. One model met me in my neighborhood at around 11, went to a nearby convenience store to get some snacks and drinks, and head out. She slept for most of the 2.5 hour drive, and woke up less than 10 minutes before we arrived, and almost immediately commented that she really had to go to the bathroom. As we started walking up the trail to our location, she commented again, "I have to go to the bathroom so bad right now." Due to the heat and steepness of the route it took close to two hours to get to where we were shooting. After around two hours of shooting, she started feeling sick with symptoms of dehydration; I suspect that she'd stopped drinking water when we stopped hiking, and I didn't realize it. But to get her healthy again I had to make her drink quite a bit over the course of the next two hours so she ended up drinking close to two liters of water in that time, plus some salty snacks to help her absorb some of that water. We did one final set and headed back to the car, so we were back at the ar around seven hours after we'd arrived. Just before she got in the car she asked me to stop at a restroom on the way back. The water must have been making it through her system by then, because for the next hour she commented about how badly she had to go, and that she was going to wet her pants any minute. What was most impressive is that until then, she showed no signs of desperation at all.
  2. In Vancouver, a lot of people were stuck in cars and buses for hours. One of the news stories covered a traffic jam where people were stuck on the Alex Fraser bridge for as long as nine hours. I haven't found any first hand accounts of that yet though.
  3. I'm with the theory that women are just more used to holding it than men. I was out chasing bald eagles for film/photography with a female friend who is also into film once. We met at my place at 7am and headed out to the a wilderness are where I'd found baldies before, and after exploring there for a while we followed the eagle route to another spot where I'd found them before. On the way to the 2nd spot we stopped at a coffee shop, and I got a coffee and she got a protein shake (which she guzzled down before we were even back on the road). Shortly after we arrived at the 2nd spot I used the bushes at around noon. By around 12:45 she asked how long we were going to be there, because "I'm hungry and I have to pee really bad. But I can handle it." While we were there though, we saw a short eared owl hunting for something in the grass, which is actually a fairly rare sight, so naturally I was shooting like crazy. We wandered around a bit and chatted for a while between sightings, and ended up not heading out until around 5pm, and got to the first gas station en route back around 5:15 or thereabouts. I don't personally know any guys who'd have held out that long once they were that desperate!
  4. What surprised me the most is that when she commented about really needing to go, she made it sound like she was pretty desperate... yet for the next five hours until I dropped her off at her car, she didn't show any signs of desperation. And then on top of that, even though she said she wanted a rest stop even before we got back to the car, she didn't remind me once we got back on the highway. But yeah, 11 hours is a long time to hold it!
  5. I went hiking with a female friend a couple of years ago. We met at 10 about half way between us -- around a half hour drive. She had a good sized mug of coffee with her that she drank en route. We exited the highway at around noon and she immediately asked me to stop somewhere where she could use the bathroom, but we didn't see any options on the way to the trailhead. I used the bushes before we started, since there weren't any facilities at the trailhead. We spent an hour or so at the high point of the route doing some photography. While I was packing up my drone a bit before 5pm I heard her say that she really had to go to the bathroom. On the way back to the trailhead, at around 5pm, she said she wanted to stop for a restroom before we started the two hour drive back It would have been another hour or so back to the car, but we stopped for more photography on the way so we ended up reaching the car well after 8pm. We drove into the city and stopped at a drive through for some food -- the dining room wasn't an option due to the pandemic. After eating we headed back. Surprisingly, she didn't ask me to stop on the way back so by the time I dropped her off at her car it had been 11 and a half hours since she asked me to stop for a bathroom, and she still had a half hour drive home.
  6. That's quite a chroma key job... that was part of why I though you were right that it wasn't green screened. But then again, he did light it with an overbright rim light, maybe that did the trick, along with a high shutter speed to almost completely eliminate motion blur. I've yet to pull off a key that clean without quite a bit of work.
  7. It looks like a case of mismatched artificial lighting. It tends to turn out that way. The side light is positioned to provide some rim lighting which separates Sosha from the background, but it's too bright which leads to the cutout look. The fill light is pretty much right in front of her, which fills in the shadows on her face a bit too much, so there's not much modeling from the shadows. If it had been a bit higher and tilted down like a classic Hollywood beauty light it would instead of highlighted her cheekbones, which would have looked a lot better. The photographer used a fairly wide lens, from fairly close; the perspective of the street behind matches that look, especially in light of the depth of focus. "Chroma-keying isn't just any automatic process. When doing visual effects for a film, where you need to make the key as clean and as realistic as possible, effects artists spend a lot of time going through and cleaning up the spill. The motion of video can help disguise the spill errors on edges, so they aren't as noticeable. For doing live chroma-keys, like for newscasts, the subjects edges are typically blurred a slight amount to cover up any spill or color fringing. You don't usually notice this slight blur, especially when dealing with a moving subject. However, these pictures don't show any sign of such blurring around the edges or the hair." You also have to light the green screen well in order to key it out, and someone who's experienced will keep the model fairly far from the green screen to minimize spill. Even then, it's a pretty involved process especially with hair strands. I did some chromakey work for a film using Mistika FX, and it was tough even though I lit the green screen evenly and had the talent far enough away to keep the spill pretty minimal... it was the motion blurred hair that tripped me up. So now when I'm shooting talent for chromakey, I use a 90 degree shutter rather than 180 to minimize the motion blur.
  8. I'm up near Seattle, and have film experience... I'd be willing to help, though I'm apparently not yet able to send PMs here.
  9. Finding movies is the point, isn't it? I appreciate the attempt... It's not like I'm blaming you for it being hard to find.
  10. There are several sites that claim to have it "free" but require credit cards... vodlocker seems reasonable, but also doesn't have a, b, c... manhattan (I found a note that it had been remove in one search result there, but mostly it ends up with the Manhatten Project based TV series. :-/
  11. Googling for it was an obvious thing to attempt, but the only places that appear to be hosting it also appear to be blatant scams. Searching for it on vodlocker turns up zilch.
  12. A, B, C... Manhattan sounds like a great art house film on top of that... but where might one find a copy?
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