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Originally posted by Mutt
Vick who runs Cloud9Cash used to shoot his own content, he told me that is wasn't economical for him any more to create his own content - he figured the cost to him was something like $3 per photo. His time was worth more running his sites.
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I know guys who have gone both ways, but I think the guys who have an overkill camera sitting on the shelf gathering dust are in the majority.
Unless you have the kind of market who is totally indifferent to quality OR unless you actually have the talent to justify opening your own content business, it's not a good idea.
Of those who have tried and quit, the reason I have heard most frequently was a variation on the explanation you gave. More work and less fun than they thought: findng and meeting with models (you can hire models cold if you like, but I think that's nuts if you have the option of doing an in-person interview), finding and hiring locations, hauling equipment around, shuttling the models (who frequently don't have their own transportation), coordinating everything so it all comes together nicely, setting up your equipment, shmoozing the girls (to relax them), directing the ones who need it and knowing which ones don't, taking the photos, prepping them (resizing, rotating, color-correcting, sharpening, retouching, etc.). And I'm not even getting into things you may not be used to dealing with in girls you're not involved with: menstruation, jealous boyfriends, high no-show rate (not so much for shoots, but for interviews it's astronomical). The first time you've hauled your ass and your equipment to a location you're paying a couple hundred bucks or more to rent, and then the model doesn't show up, or shows up with a huge purple rash or dark black and blue mark, or with an ass covered with welts or festering zits, you'll know why you want it all to be someone else's problem. Someone nuts like me or Charly or Aaron or one of the other guys who is dedicated to doing this stuff for a living.