Do you think shooting porn is the road to riches?

i've always wondered how you find models. seems like waiting months to ask them after you've become friends with them would be really inefficient and you wouldn't get many that way. if you're looking for 10 new models that could take years going that route. do you hand them business cards at clubs or what? i'm a web developer, a good photographer, and pretty decent looking so i could do everything myself if i could just find willing girls.

i don't know anything about this really, but why does it matter what the girls think of your equipment? why not just tell them to pose like you want or they're not getting paid?

also, doesn't the lens make the camera? if you're shooting w/ a $1,000 lens and good lighting (reflectors, umbrellas etc), the photos from a D40 should be about the same as those from a D5.

yea, i can see how it would be much harder to find a girl who could do ir right than it would be to just find a willing girl.

as far as finding models, i'm thinking it might be easier to just move to moldova for 3 months and set up a studio in an apartment. they're probably more intuitive and less inhibited anyways.

btw nice models on your site

It's funny that if I said I was going to jump in at the level of Topbucks or Adult.com I would be flamed and called an idiot. But shooting content it seems anyone can jump in at any level and be a threat.

Don't worry Paul, you will always be an idiot to some of us.

Thanks to whomever bumped this. Nice read.

Then maybe you would like to give us your budget to the road to riches for shooting porn.

Like so many flamers there is nothing behind your statement. Give us the list of what you think a guy needs to buy to be successful shooting porn. Yes he can start with a $500 stills camera and a $1,000 video camera and maybe buy them second hand. But will it lead to riches? And do it with prices at the time I wrote the post and not todays prices.

If you think so tell us how it works. Barefootsies can also do it.

Peace is right, the future will belong to those who are more creative. The pity is in todays market few will be. But that will be good for the few who are.

xenigo $5,000 does not buy high end equipment. But what you call high end I might not.

Yes you can cut the budgets and be like 1,000s of others cutting the budgets. But when the girl or couple walk onto a set and see you with your bottom end kit they will start to think you're not a pro. A pornographers job has little to do with photography or the equipment. It's the ability to think up a scene, convey it to the models and make them perform that scene. Having good equipment is one step towards impressing them you have a clue.

Even if it's all switched off and you're using amateur kit they still know you're a professional. I'm shooting more and more content with me mobile phone for the mobile phone market. But the models know I'm a pro because they see the pro kit.

My site with a cheap vid cam and a point and shoot camera:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ginafinder.com

Your site with high end equipment
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...rkhamteens.com

Therefore, I know what I'm talking about and I DEFINITELY know how to sell porn....And the consumers don't give a rats ass about high end cameras...they want to jack off.

My site with a cheap vid cam and a point and shoot camera:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...ginafinder.com

Your site with high end equipment
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...rkhamteens.com

Therefore, I know what I'm talking about and I DEFINITELY know how to sell porn....And the consumers don't give a rats ass about high end cameras...they want to jack off.

My measuring stick is sales!

I don't have high end equipment content on my site. Maybe you think it's high end.

So Alexa now is now the guide mark for how to shoot porn. Thanks for the education.

If you're thinking shooting porn is the road to riches or even to making a living read this, it might save you some money and time.

I would like to state this is to help those who are determined to become porn producers and deter those who think it's easy.

Firstly, porn is a saturated market. The last figures I heard for the US was 16,000 videos released in a year, that's over 44 a day. An average magazine every month receives 10 times the amount of content they need.

The Internet is probably the least saturated section but look around at some of the prices people are working for. People are offering content to us at prices we cannot produce it for, we don't buy it because we know we can't sell it. Because the bottom of the market is flooded.

So if you're still determined to follow read on.

First decide what niche to shoot, you need to know something about the niche as those buying it, the surfer, will definitely have a clue, there is no niche called "Crap Pornography". Research, research and research again. Then learn about what you researched.

Buy decent equipment, otherwise you will look like an amateur to the models and your work will suffer. The better your cameras and lights the better your work will turn out. Crisper, cleaner, better lit, better color balanced, in focus images or video will sell. Content shot on cheap equipment is everywhere and being practically given away most of the time.

If you don't have a budget of $5,000 minimum for equipment forget about it. Even that budget is pushing it.

Now learn how to use the equipment. The new digital photography age makes life so easy. There is absolutely no excuse for out of focus, poorly lit and bad color pictures. Calling it amateur is not an excuse.

So now you know your niche and equipment. Next is your market. Take some time to research it look at what people at the top are publishing. You will never enter the market at this level, this is where you're aiming for. Be very careful what you post or email, because people will start to ask to see samples.

Next stop is models and this is the tough part. Where are they going to come from, what kind of models can you find, what will they do, what will they want to earn? All these factors need to be resolved where you are, not asking me about how I do it. Models in Czech will do more, do it better and be more plentiful than models in Afghanistan or even New York, they also tend to be better looking. Your models situation will need to be resolved by you locally.

Learning how to make a model who is only there for the money and with no intentions of fucking anyone, look like she would fuck for a pizza is the real gift of a pornographer. Each model is different, needs a different approach, different direction and different motivating. If I have to explain how to do this I seriously suggest you go practise for a year until you get this right.

This is the tough part. Learning how to get the maximum out of a model when they intend doing the minimum is the hardest part of my job. Any pornographer will tell you they are part photographer, part pornographer, part psychologist and part wet nurse, with a little bit of favourite uncle or lover thrown in. And if you think this is an easy way to get laid, forget about it.

Remember the bottom of the ladder is crowded and saturated. If you think it's going to be easy with 100 other people producing content no better or no different from what you can do then think again. If you think you can compete and make the money we make, then look at www.paulmarkham.com. This is what you need to equal to earn what we earn.

Learning how to make a model who is only there for the money and with no intentions of fucking anyone, look like she would fuck for a pizza is the real gift of a pornographer. Each model is different, needs a different approach, different direction and different motivating. If I have to explain how to do this I seriously suggest you go practise for a year until you get this right.

This is the tough part. Learning how to get the maximum out of a model when they intend doing the minimum is the hardest part of my job. Any pornographer will tell you they are part photographer, part pornographer, part psychologist and part wet nurse, with a little bit of favourite uncle or lover thrown in. And if you think this is an easy way to get laid, forget about it.

www.paulmarkham.com. This is what you need to equal to earn what we earn.

Excellent point as always.

These threads with Markham always make me laugh...

Listen toots, you shoot good material. There are others out there on the high end of the content production equation. But this is not a photography board.

In this economy with big programs cutting their new content budgets, or amount they are going to spend. Unable to convert your HIGH END material into sales, and tubes giving away 30 min videos for free. People want what converts, and shot decent.

Knowing your niches is what makes or breaks you. Not pretty lighting, and cameras, and so forth. You can make a decent production on the back end in post production as long as you have lighted well enough.

Not a single time in 5+ years have I heard, or read, and e-mail with a member or buyer complimenting my camera equipment used, or how the lighting was so magical that they blew their nut before the girl even came on screen..

Knowing WHAT you are shooting, and HOW to shoot for that market or niche, and making your stuff stand out from the competition is what keeps SOME of us profitable.

Period.

Shooting porn is much more about fantasy than F-Stop

Quality content does not always mean high end productions.
www.CrackWhoreConfessions.com is shot with a $300 video camera.

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My measuring stick is sales!