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Originally Posted by Robbie
Mike I have known you for over 10 years. I remember selling you smoking content back when I owned Pure Candy Images in the late 1990's and early 2000's If ANYBODY understands the Smoking niche it is you.  I feel your frustration.
Quick Edit: I remember making the girls smoke and smoke and smoke so we could get the smoke coming out of their mouths just right and French inhaling, etc. Damn near killed those bitches with smoking to get a few high res shots for you lol So yeah, vidcaps ARE essential for your niche to catch all those nuances of smoking. |
Hi Robbie...yep, it HAS been a long time. Thanks for the nice words...and I appreciated your work at trying to get it just right
And you've nailed the frustration - the sites that have tons of beautiful high-res photos of beautiful women just
holding cigarettes - that get higher scores because the photos are 2000x1500, or whatever.
I hear your remembered pain - you *can* get a perfect high-res smoking shot, but it's largely by accident, happening to hit the button at the right time
When we shoot with a new girl who doesn't know the drill, we try to keep a wastebasket just out of camera range for just the type of situation you mentioned
(Although we did have a girl a few years ago, who despite all of our instructions, took some stackers and then ate the entire menu at a Jack In the Box before showing up for the shoot - on her third cigarette, she shot it all onto her lap, the couch, the floor - and she just sat there, stunned, for about two minutes. Best outtake we ever shot
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