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Originally Posted by DeanCapture
Well, we all need money to survive man and sometimes you are forced to shoot things that you may not want to in order to get the utility bill paid. I have huge respect for people in this situation as I was there myself not long ago.
The year that I spent as an exclusive shooter for Twistys was amazing in a sense that here I had a company that believed in my vision and gave me pretty much unlimited funding in order to pursue that vision. I was given almost complete artistic freedom to create whatever I wanted and experiment with locations & lighting and anything else I wanted to. This is about the best situation that you could ever have.
A company that pays you a salary, gives you big budgets, gives you total creative control and let's you experiment, practice and do whatever else you need to do to get your work to a higher level. The work that I produce now... looks different than it did a year ago - it's better, tighter and I have more control over it. This is in part thanks to Twistys and in part because I took that opportunity to grow and ran with it. Every shoot I did for them was an experiement and I learned something new every day that we shot for them. That is simply an experience that you can't put a price on. Shoot a few days a week for a year adds up to a hell of a lot of practice and a hell of a lot of opportunities to fine tune your skills  |
I cant help but think of a guy i met a few years back, he was in the same erotic photographers yahoo group as i was. You could tell on his post that he had never been on an adult set but was very very interested, and a solid photographer, he was a local guy so i invited him to come shoot with me, i had hired a model for a day shoot and could freely invite whomever I wanted. He came with some really nice gear, he had the canon d1 mark 2 with ul lenses and really nice strobes..much nicer equipment than mine. We did the photo shoot, I preferred to take turns shooting, rather than "double team" her, i like to be the only one giving my models instructions when i shoot. When it was his turn, he had some trouble positioning the model and getting any angles. But with my assistance and guidance he got some nice sexy photos.
i introduced him to some of the people in the business, and before I knew it he was shooting daily for a mutual friend he met that first day. i thought it was great. One day, the friend pulls me aside and says..he does good work, but he wont listen to what we want, he only wants to shoot it the way he thinks is good..
Shotly after, the guy was back out of the adult content production, simply because he was not able to mix the two. He was not at the level as Dean, where he could demand this creative freedom. last I heard he was looking to sell his canon mark d's etc...