I'd like to start shooting some of my own pics and vid's. I'm not thinking about jumping into the content business, just looking to produce some halfway decent clips and stills for use on an amateur site. I'm a complete and total novice in this area. I don't have a lick of experience with models, advertizing for models, or photography. That said, I live close to the SF Bay Area, where I figure there should be a good decent model pool, and I can get hold of a decent digicam/video record easily too. I do know a bit about model releases, and I think I can pick up basic photography and lighting fairly quickly.
Does anyone have any tips they'd mind sharing on photo equipment, advertizing for models, interviewing techniques, convincing 'em to fuck on camera, and so forth?
I usually just jump into this sort of shit blind and figure things out for myself, but I figure it'd be wrong to let the decades of cumulative experience on this board go to waste
