For amateur you need speed, you need to catch the moment and keep the models active and "alive".

The problems with some cheaper cameras is they are too slow, they stop to write to the disc. This is frustrating for the photographer and the model. the session starts to slow down and you lose the sponanity of the shoot.

Also remember you can make a good image seem bad easily, but trying to improve a bad image is a lot more dificult.

Fortunately Nikon now have the answer, the new Nikon D100 is affordable and a great camera. If you are on a tight budget get it on lease. Plus with a 500 meg chip you can shoot 400 pics then edit out the bad ones or keep them in. :)

I said in my opening post that some of my answers will be expensive, I believe in doing things right.

Now this guy is a good photographer, put's my work to shame :(

We shoot all three types.

Today we did a casting. Shot prints for our models file, digital for the net and slides with the flash on camera for the "Readers Wives" section of a very well known men's magazine. Or did you think all those pics were sent in by the husbands/boyfriends??

Agreed 101% problem is finding attractive/beautiful girls, they form about 10% of available females 18-25, then getting enough natural light to shoot a set and dreaming up a concept that is dificult.

And to sell a set at $40 perhaps 20 times over a year. Maybe that's why there's so much bad content out there. We can shoot a great set but it costs and there's more money in what we do.

Look at the sets on our site 6000 t0 6012 some are great sets and took a day to shoot. Do they sell better than the teen sets we shoot 3 a day? You create the supply you are willing to pay for.

Well that's it, unless someone can get in quick wiith a question. I'm off to Prague in a couple of hours. Hope some of this has been useful.

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Only from what you have told me bro. :glugglug

good thread.:thumbsup


finding enough pretty models is a bitch. everybody keeps telling me that they do better with 'plain Jane' type girls in the amateur market...............how come nobody wants them then? And i'm running through a lot of webmasters, seems to me 90% of webmasters want the cutest girls.

I do have a few new 'average' looking girls if anybody's interested. Blonde, Latina and a redhead.

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Hmm... my bet is that you don't make bank on marketing :Graucho

As a surfer, the first thing I do on an ugly site is hit the back button and go back to the TGP, LL, SE or TL

Pretty awesome stuff :thumbsup