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Learn to Shoot good porn.
A little about me.
The porn industry is supplied with a very large part of it's content by guys like me. Some are trained photographers and video cameramen, many are guys like me with little to no training. Just a love of porn and the experience and information to make a very good living taking photos and videos of sex. Without guys like us, porn consumers would have a lot less to consume.
I started shooting soft porn in 1977. I was married, with a new born daughter and facing bankruptcy when a friend gave me an idea. Shoot naked photos of my wife and sell them mail order. Sounds quite reasonable today, with all the Amateur Internet porn sites popping up almost daily, but in 1977 and in the UK it was a pretty new idea. So I asked my wife, bought some rolls of film, a P.O. Box and a classified advert in Exchange and Mart. A weekly UK publication of nothing but adverts for everything from a house to naked pictures of someone's wife.
Within a few weeks I was making $300 a week, a few weeks later I was taking photos of another guys wife, sometimes with my wife and sometimes with me. 30 years on I make slightly more than $200 a week.
In the last 30 plus years I've made a good living, made lots of mistakes I learned from and slept with enough girls to make a pop star blush. Today I live and work in the Czech Republic, in a long term relationship with a woman not born when I started shooting. I'm living the life most dream of, but can be achieved by anyone, because I don't have any outstanding skills or talent. Just a lot of experience learned from making all the mistakes. And listening to guys who know more then me.
So why am I writing this and sharing what I know? Well the obvious answer is to make money. some surfers will read it and like what I have to say and join my site, some will want to do what I do and sign up as members to this site and hopefully find it helpful enough in their endeavors to do what I did and some professionals will see it and buy from my content stores.
Why.
Why do you want to shoot porn? Identify your aims and targets.
This is vital as it will allow you to set your targets and check your progress.
Do you want to shoot pornography, erotica or photography?
Where to start.
How to prepare yourself to shoot good porn and make it successful.
You will need a plan of action, this will help you build the right knowledge and experience.
What to shoot.
Deciding what to shoot and why.
What niche or niches, what are your capabilities and limits, how much can you do and most importantly is how to learn what to shoot.
What do you need.
Equipment, props, locations, etc.
Work within a set budget and add to your equipment as the profits mount.
I will also give you some good tips about the equipment I use and what you can get away with, within a budget.
How to use the equipment.
Practice with the equipment so you do not look foolish and get the best from your models.
Technique is everything when shooting, here I will tell you how to be master of the equipment, build your technique using it and find out before you start paying expensive models how to benefit from mistakes.
How to find models.
Best places to find models, what motivates models, what turns them off.
One of the things so many find hard and professionals find it's the easiest part of their job.
Where to find them, how to approach them and most importantly is to establish trust.
Interview and castings.
How to run a professional casting, prepare the ground for the future shoots.
Everything is up for grabs at a casting.
How to establish respect, understanding and trust.
Preparation for a shoot.
Get the groundwork right and the shoot can be a breeze. Get it wrong and it will be hard work.
Knowing what you want before you start.
Planning out the day.
Having the right tools, props and support.
Greeting models on the day and preparing them.
Looking professional, prepared and relaxed is easy. If you know how.
Few models care if the work turns out well, they care about going home early, with as much money as possible and for as little work as possible.
Shooting.
Every scene has a start middle and end. You need to know where you are and what you're doing.
Retouching and editing.
Get the shoot right and this is an easy task.
Selling content.
Great porn makes big money, bad porn makes a hole in your pocket.
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