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It's not harder, it's just different.
Digital cameras make the feedback loop fast and reliable. Take a pic, see it on screen seconds later if you want. Tweak. I know GOOD shooters got film right every time, but how did they get to that point? Expensive, slow trial and error. That's how.
Photoshop, oh how I love thee. Was anyone buying sets of girls with C scars? Oh yes, that's right, we'll use Suspender Belt 1.0 instead. The stuff we do with PS grows daily and gives us choices.
As for models, it's never been easier to find them. Girls now get to look at a lot more porn than ever before, and thanks to the internet we are able to advertise directly or easily connect with an agency 7 time zones away.
Girls have always faked - and faked badly - it's just that when we were young and testosterone fuelled, we fell for it more easily! The older I get the more annoying I find the girls but I'm happy to accept its me that's changing, not them. Yes, they can be lazy and - oh my god - not committed to creating great porn, but that could be because of the party they were at all night. These days the only allnighters I pull are completing tax returns.
Shooting video is now as cheap and easy as you want it to be. Comparing the cost of production now to then is simply impossible - an edit suit could cost the price of a house to buy, now it can be done on a lappy.
And just for one second take off the rose tinted specs and go look at some old content. I for one don't look back at those corner room studio setups and wish I'd shot them. Porn today is better than ever. The rude stuff is ruder, the arty stuff better shot with more variety and high production stuff more perfect than ever. And now there's lots of it.
The only problem with now, is how high the entry standard now is.
Paul - I think you do yourself a disservice with these posts because you don't actually get what made you exceptional. To non brits it's really hard to understand how hard it is to do business here and how anti-porn - and more critical to Paul - anti-video the time was. Videos couldn't be sold with out certification, porn had no chance of being certified in a country where even mags didn't show insertions till a few years ago. And then moving to Czech very shortly after communism ended. No Easyjet and I bet far fewer people speaking english. Dunno what you did right, but you survived and who else from that time is still around? Don't see Jack Harrison or Joanie Allum posting so much.
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