Biggest Problem With Shooting Your Own Content???
 

Hey gang, what's the biggest "photographic" problem that you encounter when shooting your own material?


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Getting caught by the police while I'm in the bushes outside the dorm room windows.

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Well, that's not a "photographic" problem :1orglaugh

Nope...But my cock getting in the way of the lens is.

video or stills?

video.....i cant hold my camera still enough...i need to start working out my arms i guess :)

stills....i never want to bust out the umbrellas, and sometimes the shots would look better. It is often a pain in the ass on location to have cumbersome studio lights.

oh, and i also need new glasses real soon:(

Getting my huge penis in focus!

Get a macro lens.

Making up fake IDs for the girls...




ok j/k

use a wide angle lens and set it on infinity - problem solved.
Oh - and it'll make your penis look bigger than it really is :1orglaugh

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Dayummm - that was a good one.

+1 for Aaron -

Answering the phone and being nice... everyone "THINKS" they could be a porn star as long $$ is involved... in mid-michigan at least.

ok my fault i missed the "photographic" part...


myself it would be lighting

WHEN SHE GOES ON THE RAG the way she did yesterday when we was shooting and had four days of shooting lined up for her fucking girls and there rag time GRRRRRRRRRR:mad:

prostock: Allways ask your models when there time is...that way you dont try to schedule durring that time...

Or only get models on depro then you dont need to worry about it :)

1) lighting, lighting, lighting...it can make or break a shoot.

2) make-up sponges!!! it's the oldest porn-girl trick in the book...you silly fuckers must not be in LA...I had a porn girl in the middle of her rag get gang-banged by 4 large cocks and no one could tell a thing...AND it was fun watching her fish them out of her snatch after the shoot.

3) buy a real camera (GL-2 rules) and turn the anti-shake feature ON. unless you're a palsy, you'll be fine.

4) watch commerical lights! I've had lights from regular bulbs in lamps turn a shoot yellow. Ugh...yea, drag your pro lights to the shoot...or your content suffers...

5) when you're getting ready for the cum shot...well, i can't give it all away....

good luck...nothing more fun than shooting your own content!

fluffing

Dealing with their fucking attitudes.

Some of you fucking PIMPS can't read....I asked: "what's the biggest "<B>photographic</B>" problem that you encounter when shooting your own material?

Half of your answers have nothing to do with a PHOTOGRAPHIC problem. I can't help it if your model is on the rag. I can't help it if your too fugg'n lazy to break out the umbrellas. I was offering to help if you had a "photographic" problem - most of you guys have a reading problem though - not much I can do about that :1orglaugh

lighting

I forgot to monitor the audio on one of my early shoots. The battery in my mic was dead. I had to lay music over the whole shoot like a music video. Hate that shit. I got into porn to make porn with out that annoying background music.

lol

Okay, thats so gross!

they make a product called "instead" http://www.softcup.com/ that would be much more sanitary.

Of course "red content" is an unexplored niche :-)

Well Laura, I learned its always best to travel when you can with studio flashes. I couldnt get shots like these without them...
Not that Im the best, but it helps
http://www.amacontent.com/pics/morgan4.jpg
http://www.amacontent.com/pics/morgan5.jpg

I'd say my biggest "photographic" issue is this: When shooting in manual mode, I set the lights and the camera to be the closest match to perfect exposure. When the model moves further away, I have to stop it down... but sometimes it's overexposed slightly. Sometimes I take the most perfect picture, and it's underexposed because it's impossible to get 100% correct exposure 100% of the time when you're moving the model all over the place.

I haven't found the perfect technique to get it perfect yet.

Getting a hard on :1orglaugh

Tring to find where to put the batteries on a solar powered camera. :1orglaugh

No where in your first post where you offering help or assistance...you were just asking a question. Please get off your high horse.

Dean... Dean.... Dean.....what, are you on the rag ?:1orglaugh This is turning into a nice discussion let it go at that :thumbsup

Laura.... Laura.....Your Mother told you would go blind if you didnt stop it, didnt she ?:1orglaugh

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My biggest problem is when I cant get 300 pics in an hour session. That really pisses me off! haha! My little Nikon 5700 is a working mofo! haha

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If I wasn't interested in helping out, I wouldn't have asked the question cowboy!

Biggest problem is not having a model to shoot with yer purty camera cause the model flaked.

xenigo, one thing that will help you out is to not move your model "all over the place" as you have mentioned. It's very difficult to get consistant exposures if your having to chase your model around with your lights and exposure meter.

The idea is to setup a "range" in your set that the model can move around in and still keep the same exposure. The closer your lights are to your model, the harder this will be to do. Try backing your main and fill lights farther from the model on your next shoot. The farther you have them back, the more forgiving your expsoure will be. The closer you have the lights to your subject, the less forgiving your exposure will be and the harder it will be to keep correct exposures if your model is moving around.

Don't be afraid to move those lights back 10-12-15 feet from your model (if you have the room to do this). Once you've done this, set up a range within the scene and meter it. Once you've got the lights setup so that you have a consistant exposure within this "range", be sure to let the model know where the boundries are. As long as your model stays within the boundries, you should be good to go. Experiment with moving the lights closer and farther from the model and take meter readings and you will see what I mean....

good luck -

Dean*

Hey Laura, not much I can do if your too lazy to pull out the umbrellas my dear. That's the difference between photographers who strive to perfect their skills and have pride in their work and photographers who are just out to make a quick buck :(

Specifically, what kind of lighting problem are you having?

That seems to happen a lot huh?

Lighting is the other biggest maybe?

craziest one i experienced was a girl who actually made it to the offices but fell and cracked her head walking up the stairs. she didn't really flake but still never made it to the shoot. :BangBang:

lighting in most cases only affect professional shoots, not really amateur ones. i've worked with as little as a garden variety halogen lamp and no flash, still came out decent and very amateur in it's look.

good advice.

you can also shoot "tethered" if you have the right hardware, using firewire and a big screen laptop---much easier to see than your LCD or histogram, then you can tweak you f/stop as you move around.

another way is use infinitely variable monolights with radio controls so you tweak the lights instead of the f/stop---this allows you to keep the desired DOF.

shooting manual exposure with strobes is probably the single greatest technical challenge---getting consistently acceptable exposure as you move around---because if you do not get consistent exposure you will have lots of post-processing work in photoshop.

there are a few newer camera that help solve these issues after the fact (saving shots that are over-exposed by shooting in raw mode) like kodak 14n.

easiest and best method, tweak the exposures as you work by taking a quick look at each shot and re-shooting the bad ones.

I always do a stills shoot first then make a video of it .. Then I explain my sign language to the model for what I want her to do.. Whether it's turn on her side or to start making some moans etc.. The pain.. When a model forgets the signs.. Or

I forget I have a cd on or the tv in the background until 8 mins in to a vid and I won't start again so.. In comes the crap music over dub.. So where can I get some free music to use as I'm fed up to the teeth with Pinnacles and I'm a tight wad :)

Finally.. I'm lucky that my place faces west and so as I do all my shoots in the afternoon, unless it's raining, I get some great natural light..

keeping the lens clean can be quite a challenge

I think the worst part of all is waiting for WalMart to develope the pics
I hate to wait

trying not to shake the camera when fucking the bajesus outta the chick.