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Originally posted by charly
Here are my figures, they are rough and kept to a minimum.
Stills Camera. $1,300
Video Camera $1,000
Studio Flash lights. $500
Flash metre. $300
Props, $20 a week, $1,000 a year.
Photography books. $100
Total $4,200
Location. $80 a time time 25 = $2,000
Models $300 to $500 a day for solo girl.
One a week $20,000 a year.
Total $24,200
Shooting six sets or videos a day = 300 a year @ $80 each
Correcting/editing 2 days a week + 1 day shooting = 3 days.
3 days at $200 a day = $600 a week another $100 per video.
Total cost $180 per set or video.
This is a minimum budget that would be hard to keep within, but I did it to show bare minmum, so $360 for a solo girl image set and video. That with the best will in the world will be poor. No one can get into a car and drive it shoting porn is harder than driving a car.
How well that will convert your members or sell to other paysites is anyones guess. The first year most people are learning how to cope with the shooting and do not develope a style or technique, so the content will look like every other newbie shooter on a limited budget and experience.
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Is this a pitch for let me shoot your content for you ? lol When my wife and I started our site 4 yrs ago , I had a cheap shit hp home use digital camera and two paint lights. We were free for the first year so it was school time . The first year we went pay we didnt touch that money and just put it back into the business upgrading equiptment and skills (classes, books) We are one of the more expensive in our niche and softcore, we do pretty good because our images our very very exclusive. The only place you can see them is on our site. Exclusive is what makes the surfer buy not some bought content that everyone and his brother has no matter how more cost effective it is . OH and by the way the first five g/g scenes we did we paid the models from $75 to nothing , they wanted the opportunity to sleep with my wife.