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Originally Posted by jact
For the record everyone, 200k a year isn't at all unreasonable shooting content if you have the clients in place.
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200k a year pay for photography, not pay for projects (where you have to subtract the pay for the models, make-up artists, assistants, locations, etc), would be quite good pay for even an established photographer with clients.
Donny didn't always have the clientele he had up until much long before he quit the adult business over religious issues. It appears most of his big name clients came to him/Belinda with any amount of meaningful work in the last year or two.
That is why I questioned his boastful claim of earning "millions of dollars" in adult, which he right away tried to push down to the bare minimum of $2 million. I haven't made millions in adult yet (I have in mainstream - no boast intended), but my mortgage payments are higher that Donny's (which he may even be splitting with Belinda since supposedly her name is above his on the deed).
Just looking at his traffic stats, I can guesstimate what Donny's sales might have been from his former sites.
In any case, if his former sites were doing so well, he could have hired somebody else fulltime to do the marketing, and still made a decent profit (if he was earning what Aaron claims), instead of selling off the sites. I have sites that haven't been updated or marketed in years that still pull in money.
In mainstream, a professional photographer can generally expect to make $750/half day or $1,500 for a full day (I'm not talking about Annie Leibowitz either). Up until this year I have done most of my own shooting, but even since I have started hiring professional photographers, I haven't had to pay mainstream rates.
Photographers also usually don't shoot every day, and most have other responsibilites in addition to shooting. In adult you have the added problem of models that flake. I mostly use agencies, so I have a low flake out rate - plus I always have a list of models that I have worked with previously to call in case of a no show, so that some work can still get accomplished, when I've booked make-up artists, locations, etc.
Still waiting to see if Rev. Donny can answer the simple question posed to him, now that he has gone from Miserable User status to Anti-Porn Crusader status.
An honest Christian could fill in the blanks...
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