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Originally Posted by SimonScans
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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Jack Harrison, to my knowledge, works for Private. I heard that from Bill Wright. Joanie retired before I came here, she had made enough and just stopped. A few others are around but most got out to better paying photographers jobs or better paying jobs or retired. I expect the remaining few will retire soon. If Deni, Viv, Colby and a few others haven't kept some of the money they made they will be sorry.
I know all about certification and Astral Blue was closed down because of non certification. I also know about the atmosphere back then.
What I did right was raised my game shooting and moved to a country where I could raise my production level. And didn't sell what I produced outright for small money. Right up to 2008.
The thread was maybe badly written or badly perceived. It's far easier to point a camera at a girl and shout action. To get it right and good isn't so easy for the reason I stated.
This part of the porn industry has never valued the product very highly. It made loads of useless excuses why. The truth is most in the beginning couldn't afford to and as the industry became easier, instead of raising the bar and setting higher standards,
to keep out every Ma and Pa operation, they chose to do nothing.
Now it's suffering. Too many programs chasing sales with the same low level content.