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Originally Posted by Cherry7
The question of quality is one of cost...
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Yes, I think you said it all there. From the very start very few companies could afford to employ decent shooters. There was more money to be earned selling porn elsewhere. They simply couldn't offer enough money to tempt the good shooters.
I'm not by any means a great porn shooter, but no site could afford to employ me. Maybe now Manwin can. Then the question is will they. Not just me there are lots of other good porn shooters who chose not to shoot for online, unless it's their own site.
Out of 1,000 members @ $30 a month deduct. 50% for traffic, 10% processing, 5% hosting, 10% content, 10% other costs. Leaves $4,500 for profit. And that's with content at a monthly bill of $3,000.
We were shooting single sets that made more. Add all the profit and the content bill and it's $7,500 and what does that buy you? And that's the whole point. It's like a Whale sending traffic to a site that doesn't convert or retain and getting 50% Rev share. He doesn't do it and good shooters are not working for the money custom paid. There was far greener pastures.
Yes I know there were sites with 10,000 members, there were also a ton of sites with 500.
Some sites could do a lot better for the same money. Updates that are just the same as what's on the site get boring after a while and the members are off to new pastures.
There are no books to teach how to shoot porn, there are books on photography but as you point out that's a small part of shooting porn. The large part is about models and knowing the niche.