Originally Posted by JimmyStephans

Just a funny sidebar to this story.

Back about 2010-2012 I was contacting all sorts of photographers trying to find guys to shoot for me. I'm talking about many of the same guys that shot for ATK, TeenFlood, Karupspc and others along those lines.

Big difference is that my site is very softcore. No toys, no G-G, no B-G, etc. Very soft (easy).

The original offer was 6 photo sets (only 60 images each) and 3 HD videos (just ten minutes each), I pay $1500 (half up front). No big name models needed. No takers. None, and guys would tell me how much they made by shooting for this site or that site, etc.

I raised the offer to $2000, but changed requirements to 5 photo sets and 5 videos. No takers.

For a time I went back to doing it myself before retiring.

Now, many of those same guys (not Fred the OP) are whining about not getting paid from this guy that offered more, or that guy that offered more, or that other company that was bigger (more famous / gonna make them famous), etc. Now, I continue to get emails from those guys looking for work now. My site went to archive status 9 months back.

Just funny how times change. I was flush with cash, closing all my NN stuff, ready to dive full time into TrueBabes and trying to make it more popular, couldn't find any shooters to take the reasonable money I had to offer. Now that I'm older, semi-retired, and more worried about how much Tequila to put in my new blender, there are lots of shooters looking for work.

Ebb and flow of the business I guess.