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I know you posted this three months ago, and may not ever see this. But when I'm doing my daytime/afternoon cam times on Stripchat...if there's natural sunlight coming in through that window, and it's looking great on me, I absolutely will use that instead of my painfully bright Inkeltech softbox lighting. Then when it's beginning to get cloudy outside...or starts to go into evening time, and the natural sunlight is looking less lovely, that's when the party's over (Lol) and I've gotta plug in and turn on my softbox lighting.

True, natural light can look absolutely amazing 🥰 plus so much easier on the eyes IMO. I love it myself but I sometimes struggle with how variable it is where I need to change my settings around when clouds are out or the sun is hitting the window straight on etc. Or it goes behind a tree etc. Which can be a bit bothersome at times.

Original comment really has a point too. It really depends on what type of vibe/stream you want to do what kind of lighting fits that best. Full on amateur with shitty lighting (while still adequately visible) and quality can definitely be a strategy that pays off. But the vibe needs to match the stream content. It's always good to figure out who you're catering to and how you're catering to them & make those 2 things match.

I think lighting can be a very powerful tool to set a mood or make a statement about what kind of model you are/want to portray yourself as. Pretty fun to experiment with 😊
 
I come into this forum very late. I wish I saw this before. I always tell models that what they are doing is theater and they are the producer, director, writer, lighting coordinator. It is very hard to get all these factors to work together. And, if you work in a studio, Jesus, you are so limited. Some models even have to be the janitor and cleaning lady. But, as far as lighting goes, I believe it to be the single most important thing to set the mood. That is why all productions have a lighting specialist. There are so many factors to think about. The room decor, the skin tone of the model, the direction of the lighting. I don't envy the things the models have to consider. Just wanted to share these thoughts.
 
I was pretty happy with my lightning situation (I use a ring light), but this thread gave me so much information that in the future I will def work on improving it.
 
Free alternative to adding better lighting to your broadcast... I use an old cell phone as my streaming 1080 hd cam on a simple cellphone holder along with the free app Iriun which uses the back camera and optionally the cellphone flash to improve lighting. Depending upon your cell phone you may have a back camera option that zooms in. I use this camera as my camera source in obs. Then I pull obs into the lovenese camera. In Stripchat, I choose the lovenese cam as my 1080 HD source. A bit complicated setup, but free and cam quality is excellent! You can use the cellphone wireless as long as on the same network as your pc or connected which keeps it charged and allows automatic debugging. I hope this helps!
 
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I've tried the paid version of Droid cam but it was buggy. Iriun works very well and is 1080 quality.
 
I've tried the paid version of Droid cam but it was buggy. Iriun works very well and is 1080 quality.
Whatever works for you, I just tested it with USB cable and phone, WiFi part I believe was only issue I had, but didn't actually live stream with it.
Webcams worked easier for me.
Just thought droidcam would work better as rating in app store is better, but can also be phone specific with issues 🤷🏼🤷🏼🤷🏼
 
Whatever works for you, I just tested it with USB cable and phone, WiFi part I believe was only issue I had, but didn't actually live stream with it.
Webcams worked easier for me.
Just thought droidcam would work better as rating in app store is better, but can also be phone specific with issu
I've tried the paid version of Droid cam but it was buggy. Iriun works very well and is 1080 quality.
Iriun was also buggy for me. I find that Droidcam currently works better for me. But when either starts getting buggy, I temporarily switch to the other.
 
I have been browsing thrift stores and you wouldn't believe the amount of good lighting options they have. If you have a smart charger and rechargables, even some battery powered lights are strong enough. I picked one up but have yet to use it. It's fun to test with slowmo to see if there is any flicker. I saw a new cammer who couldn't afford lighting, but the options are plentiful if you know where to look. Philips hue bulbs went on sale for twelve bucks a two pack and I really like them.
 
This is an old thread but a very important aspect of any camgirls stream quality which its not to be underestimated - video streaming or video requires good lighting! I know of a girl on CB that has poor lighting. Its actually dark and I would not go private with her for that reason. Its hurting her potential profit.

Good quality lighting can be very expensive, and lighting is a very important aspect of movies. I like the look of what they refer to as "film noir". lighting is like painting a canvas. The quality of the light and the temperature of the light is important in a movie as it is in video. drawing with light can be beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

All models need to understand lighting 101 ! Ideally you want the three light setup a KEY light, and fill light and a backlight. The height and the angle is important. you don't want "racoon eyes" and you do need that "glint" in your eyes.

Also the reason lights are placed at certain angles is to create what they call "tonal variation". the video subject in this case is you the model. You're a two-dimensional image on the screen of my laptop. A model with the light in front of her is call "flat lighting". by placing lights at the correct angle you create depth cues or the illusion of DEPTH. Its more 3 dimensional which creates more realism which is ideally what you want to create.

Be aware of color temperature which I think is kelvin. On LED bulbs is printed its color temperature in kelvins. I like 2700K ~ 3200K. Warm white. It accentuates skin tones. I bought 4600 ~ 6500K which to me this is an ugly bluish light which in hindsight was a mistake.
 
This is an old thread but a very important aspect of any camgirls stream quality which its not to be underestimated - video streaming or video requires good lighting! I know of a girl on CB that has poor lighting. Its actually dark and I would not go private with her for that reason. Its hurting her potential profit.
Not necessarily, there are a lot of people that like and specifically search out the amateur look of non professional lighting and lower quality camera's, it adds into the whole, horny and just logged in for fun fantasy opposed to someone who quite clearly has a lot of money invested into cam.
 
Not necessarily, there are a lot of people that like and specifically search out the amateur look of non professional lighting and lower quality camera's, it adds into the whole, horny and just logged in for fun fantasy opposed to someone who quite clearly has a lot of money invested into cam.
hmm yeah I think I know what you mean still me personally I like to see the model clearly. My eyes are not like they used to be. I like that there is so much potential in camming. I like film noir and tech noir which is a sub-genre of science fiction and film noir. I especially liked the film "Bladerunner 1982."
 
Good quality lighting can be very expensive, and lighting is a very important aspect of movies.
Hi Trent. How long have you been trying to make money on cam? It's a very, VERY different space from hollywood filmmaking or moviegoing. I try to provide the best 3 point lighting possible + fills and accents most of the time but if honest? That doesn't matter much to most of the people who pay regularly, generally is a waste of my time to stress over.

Curious: how much has this specifically affected your personal income as an online webcam performer, for how long, and to what % according to your attempts? You implied what you've tried to set up hasn't worked and referred us to a emulate a billion dollar hollywood genre and the Bladerunner movie? Do you have data as a creator, or is this your personal preference as a consumer? Inquiring cam PERFORMERS (not girls) want to know.
 
Hi Trent. How long have you been trying to make money on cam? It's a very, VERY different space from hollywood filmmaking or moviegoing. I try to provide the best 3 point lighting possible + fills and accents most of the time but if honest? That doesn't matter much to most of the people who pay regularly, generally is a waste of my time to stress over.

Curious: how much has this specifically affected your personal income as an online webcam performer, for how long, and to what % according to your attempts? You implied what you've tried to set up hasn't worked and referred us to a emulate a billion dollar hollywood genre and the Bladerunner movie? Do you have data as a creator, or is this your personal preference as a consumer? Inquiring cam PERFORMERS (not girls) want to know.

Answer to first question. Never ! I'm not a performer although privately yeah I'm a stud apparently. he he he just joking. "Hollywood filmmaking" Yes it is. I bought a camera or two and I created a youtube channel which was kinda interesting initially but now I've kinda lost interest in it. I had to learn about lighting to light my projects which initially weren't lit very well and that's how I started studying light which is a science. The older version of Bladerunner 1982 used film noir lighting which I found interesting. My father used to take a lot of photos with his film camera. The old film cameras had really great bokeh. I like how film renders light. Sometimes I think how wonderful it would be to use these elements on camming. Some girls have good cameras and nice lens that render their bodies in a beautiful way. I guess maybe cam models never think of the artistic elements of being a cam girl but I think there is a lot of potential to make it a lot more erotic. Fills and accent lighting, I had to look the last one up. I know that the purpose of a key light is to create depth or to give the model or object or subject a 3 dimensional look. Fill light is on the right side and that shines light into the shadows that the key light creates. Accent light is I guess artistic lighting to create mood I guess. If you remember the Bladerunner movie (1982) it had the most beautiful lighting. Stress over. Yes I guess you are right maybe people just don't appreciate the effort you put into lighting your shows. I do because of my cognitive bias. for example if you have a red car you notice red cars. If your a builder you notice houses and how they are built. its the same with me I notice many things aside from the model but i guess not everybody is like that. This is my personal preference as a consumer. I think everything is important although some things are more important than others. I think there is more to this than just her age, her looks, and her body. I had to think about it for awhile what are the elements that are the most important? what are cam girls actually selling ? what makes a good show ?

It's eroticism.

I've lightly studied what women like in men.

I've also studied what men like in women.

To some degree its her age, its her facial beauty, its having what a man considers a hot body but to me its more than that.

I guess there are similarities with what women like.

I've read that women like tall men.

I read that young women like a man to be clean shaven.

As women get older the don't mind some stubble but NO goatess please!

Women are very fussy about things like clean finger nails or dirty hands. You do not want to have dirty hands.

Now back to women.

posture for example - arching your back and pushing your breasts out is more erotic than being slumped over.

On all fours and lowering your upper body to the floor is an erotic pose there is something very primordial about that pose.

Laying back with your body slightly raised and your legs spread, or your legs spread eagled directly in front of the camera - this is erotic I guess because its how men enter a women. its a very erotic pose.

It looks very vulnerable and inviting.

Also other ways that women move and pose for the camera are either erotic or they aren't.

how a women hold themselves, their gait and how they walk and move.

if you've studied body language there is a silent language of communication that we unconsciously or consciously use to communicate with. Me because I've studied it. Women instinctively understand body language much more than men do unless they've like me (men) studied it themselves like me.

I pick up on these subtle cues that women do.

I can tell if a girl is anxious because she bites her bottom lip.

She's defensive maybe she folds her arms or places her hand over her vulnerable parts.

These things either enhance her show or deduct from it.

It's the same for men.

One wrong look one wrong touch, too fast, too slow, too rough, not enough pressure we are both put off very quickly and easily.

In that way its a challenge to turn a man on.

There are some things that you cannot hide.

Older women are better at this than maybe than younger women because they've learnt these skills over time.

I don't know why but some women have a flair at doing things that are erotic they know how to press your buttons.

I guess there is a lot of information here probably way too much to process.

I'll try to summarise some important things based on importance.

A young 18 year old model thats beautiful and has a hot body has a distinct advantage just like a 6 foot man that has a lot of wealth and is very good looking is going to have an unfair advantage.

I quarterback thats 18 to 25 thats very very good looking is going to attract a lot of pretty young girls. unfortunatly us men cant do much about it and its a fact most of the alpha males are getting 90% of the women.

in this way pretty girls have a very unfair advantage to.

still in some ways that is a disadvantage also because maybe she is much too reliant on her looks and her body. she doesn't learn how to attract a man with her charm and other skills...

Some women have other advantages aside from a beautiful face and a great body.

Maybe you have a great pair of breasts or a nice vulva or a nice buttocks.

A wispy voice can be a very attractive. Maybe you have nice eyes and nice mouth.

see this can give you an advantage that maybe you are not aware of. You never want to assume anything. You may be wrong.

There is a lot to be said about the saying : its not the dog in the fight its the fight in the dog! some women maybe are not 9s or 10s but they learnt the art of seduction better than of the pretty girls.

okay im rambling on way too much.

I think you need the best webcam that you can afford. a good webcam makes a huge difference without that I can't see anything.

audio I wish I could hear a girls voice or her BREATHING its her breathing that is erotic and indicates she's aroused. its not the vocalizations.

Silence is more erotic than moaning or saying things that that are just not erotic.

A women breathing faster sends chills up my spine.

Okay here's a treat for you that not even a Harvard educated professional with multiple degrees and a PhD knows.

real orgasm is surprisingly quiet aside from the heart beating.

so don't vocalize anything during a show. breath like you're aroused :)


Okay now the technical stuff:

Resolution is absolutely important and can not be underestimated . if your hot and your cam is poor quality your potential is stopped or very difficult to gain traction. I've seen so many camgirls that had poor quality cams that hurt their income.

640 x 480 you might as well not bother trying. its just not good enough.

1080p is mandatory really although 720 with good optical quality from a really good quality camera might actually be good enough still the more resolution then the higher the image quality.

Image quality make you look more realistic the more realistic you appear the more erotic the show is.

Another very important aspect of the camera is its FOCUSSING and minimum focal length. A camera has a minimum focus distance. If you move your camera too close to you or your vulva :) then image becomes blurry. you have to move back until the camera is "in focus".

good cameras also have the ability to focus on the object very quickly without HUNTING or moving in and out trying to find what you want it to focus on. I bought another camera for that reason. My main camera would continuously hunt for focus which would drive me nutts !

On my SONY ZV-1 it has a mode called showcase mode which makes it very easy to focus on my subject and lock onto it easily.

That can be very annoying if you are watching a girl and her camera breaks lock and starts to hunt for her vulva then her face then her vulva then her face. if guys are watching her vulva then it loses focus - yeah its so annoying.

I know this girl and thats what happens. she stops the show and puts her hand up to the screen trying to get it to focus on something.

okay more technical stuff:

What's also important is frame rate 60 might be better than 30.

as you pan up and down and left and right the higher frame rate is better and smoother.

Bitrate, the more the better, but then you need "processing power". you need a powerful processor to stream to a server for streaming to multiple websites. Intel Core 9 ?? or Core 7 Maybe yeah.

Memory they say 4 GB is enough but is that with plugins ? I think most computers would have 16GB these days 32 would probably be over kill.

Fast internet connection especially the "upload speed" download is good but UPLOAD SPEED is very important.

Now the problems with better quality is that it requires as you know a lot of processing power. A fast processor with a powerful video card and lots of memory especially if you have lots of tabs open and plugins hogging resources.

Also you need storage and best storage is probably Samsungs 970 1TB SSDs.

I guess all this info is useless unless you have the funds to buy it.

I saw a Russian girl buy all the equipment straight away. She bought I guess a Sony A7S ii ? something like that and yeah her image quality was incredible.

Again lets go over lighting. Light is so important. I know this girl and she has a hot body but she just doesn't have enough light. its just too dark.

Another aspect of lighting is the temperature of it in kelvin. I would stick to 2700K to 3200K its stamped on LED bulbs. Warm white to me is warm and makes your skin look better.

Cold blue LEDs NO !

You know the basic 3 light setup with the right angles and the right height. Yes height is important. you want a glint in your eyes otherwise eyes look dead.

there is a light setup just for women portraiture. It has to be the right height and the correct angles and it may not be suitable for models that are moving around.

accents are nice and yeah I would add them but if you constrained by money then like you said maybe its not that important.

okay now erotica again.

I guess what is erotic for one man may not be erotic for me.

I don't think toys are that erotic its not the main thing that gets me aroused.

in fact they kinda kill my vibe.

what a girl does with her fingers is what I find erotic the speed that she does it at her breathing.

Masturbation is very erotic especially if she does it slowly. Just watching a girl masturbate is such a turn on.

I guess everybody has gone home by now and or gone to sleep. lol Ive been typing this for hours.
 
Answer to first question. Never ! I'm not a performer although privately yeah I'm a stud apparently. he he he just joking. "Hollywood filmmaking" Yes it is. I bought a camera or two and I created a youtube channel which was kinda interesting initially but now I've kinda lost interest in it. I had to learn about lighting to light my projects which initially weren't lit very well and that's how I started studying light which is a science. The older version of Bladerunner 1982 used film noir lighting which I found interesting. My father used to take a lot of photos with his film camera. The old film cameras had really great bokeh. I like how film renders light. Sometimes I think how wonderful it would be to use these elements on camming. Some girls have good cameras and nice lens that render their bodies in a beautiful way. I guess maybe cam models never think of the artistic elements of being a cam girl but I think there is a lot of potential to make it a lot more erotic. Fills and accent lighting, I had to look the last one up. I know that the purpose of a key light is to create depth or to give the model or object or subject a 3 dimensional look. Fill light is on the right side and that shines light into the shadows that the key light creates. Accent light is I guess artistic lighting to create mood I guess. If you remember the Bladerunner movie (1982) it had the most beautiful lighting. Stress over. Yes I guess you are right maybe people just don't appreciate the effort you put into lighting your shows. I do because of my cognitive bias. for example if you have a red car you notice red cars. If your a builder you notice houses and how they are built. its the same with me I notice many things aside from the model but i guess not everybody is like that. This is my personal preference as a consumer. I think everything is important although some things are more important than others. I think there is more to this than just her age, her looks, and her body. I had to think about it for awhile what are the elements that are the most important? what are cam girls actually selling ? what makes a good show ?

It's eroticism.

I've lightly studied what women like in men.

I've also studied what men like in women.

To some degree its her age, its her facial beauty, its having what a man considers a hot body but to me its more than that.

I guess there are similarities with what women like.

I've read that women like tall men.

I read that young women like a man to be clean shaven.

As women get older the don't mind some stubble but NO goatess please!

Women are very fussy about things like clean finger nails or dirty hands. You do not want to have dirty hands.

Now back to women.

posture for example - arching your back and pushing your breasts out is more erotic than being slumped over.

On all fours and lowering your upper body to the floor is an erotic pose there is something very primordial about that pose.

Laying back with your body slightly raised and your legs spread, or your legs spread eagled directly in front of the camera - this is erotic I guess because its how men enter a women. its a very erotic pose.

It looks very vulnerable and inviting.

Also other ways that women move and pose for the camera are either erotic or they aren't.

how a women hold themselves, their gait and how they walk and move.

if you've studied body language there is a silent language of communication that we unconsciously or consciously use to communicate with. Me because I've studied it. Women instinctively understand body language much more than men do unless they've like me (men) studied it themselves like me.

I pick up on these subtle cues that women do.

I can tell if a girl is anxious because she bites her bottom lip.

She's defensive maybe she folds her arms or places her hand over her vulnerable parts.

These things either enhance her show or deduct from it.

It's the same for men.

One wrong look one wrong touch, too fast, too slow, too rough, not enough pressure we are both put off very quickly and easily.

In that way its a challenge to turn a man on.

There are some things that you cannot hide.

Older women are better at this than maybe than younger women because they've learnt these skills over time.

I don't know why but some women have a flair at doing things that are erotic they know how to press your buttons.

I guess there is a lot of information here probably way too much to process.

I'll try to summarise some important things based on importance.

A young 18 year old model thats beautiful and has a hot body has a distinct advantage just like a 6 foot man that has a lot of wealth and is very good looking is going to have an unfair advantage.

I quarterback thats 18 to 25 thats very very good looking is going to attract a lot of pretty young girls. unfortunatly us men cant do much about it and its a fact most of the alpha males are getting 90% of the women.

in this way pretty girls have a very unfair advantage to.

still in some ways that is a disadvantage also because maybe she is much too reliant on her looks and her body. she doesn't learn how to attract a man with her charm and other skills...

Some women have other advantages aside from a beautiful face and a great body.

Maybe you have a great pair of breasts or a nice vulva or a nice buttocks.

A wispy voice can be a very attractive. Maybe you have nice eyes and nice mouth.

see this can give you an advantage that maybe you are not aware of. You never want to assume anything. You may be wrong.

There is a lot to be said about the saying : its not the dog in the fight its the fight in the dog! some women maybe are not 9s or 10s but they learnt the art of seduction better than of the pretty girls.

okay im rambling on way too much.

I think you need the best webcam that you can afford. a good webcam makes a huge difference without that I can't see anything.

audio I wish I could hear a girls voice or her BREATHING its her breathing that is erotic and indicates she's aroused. its not the vocalizations.

Silence is more erotic than moaning or saying things that that are just not erotic.

A women breathing faster sends chills up my spine.

Okay here's a treat for you that not even a Harvard educated professional with multiple degrees and a PhD knows.

real orgasm is surprisingly quiet aside from the heart beating.

so don't vocalize anything during a show. breath like you're aroused :)


Okay now the technical stuff:

Resolution is absolutely important and can not be underestimated . if your hot and your cam is poor quality your potential is stopped or very difficult to gain traction. I've seen so many camgirls that had poor quality cams that hurt their income.

640 x 480 you might as well not bother trying. its just not good enough.

1080p is mandatory really although 720 with good optical quality from a really good quality camera might actually be good enough still the more resolution then the higher the image quality.

Image quality make you look more realistic the more realistic you appear the more erotic the show is.

Another very important aspect of the camera is its FOCUSSING and minimum focal length. A camera has a minimum focus distance. If you move your camera too close to you or your vulva :) then image becomes blurry. you have to move back until the camera is "in focus".

good cameras also have the ability to focus on the object very quickly without HUNTING or moving in and out trying to find what you want it to focus on. I bought another camera for that reason. My main camera would continuously hunt for focus which would drive me nutts !

On my SONY ZV-1 it has a mode called showcase mode which makes it very easy to focus on my subject and lock onto it easily.

That can be very annoying if you are watching a girl and her camera breaks lock and starts to hunt for her vulva then her face then her vulva then her face. if guys are watching her vulva then it loses focus - yeah its so annoying.

I know this girl and thats what happens. she stops the show and puts her hand up to the screen trying to get it to focus on something.

okay more technical stuff:

What's also important is frame rate 60 might be better than 30.

as you pan up and down and left and right the higher frame rate is better and smoother.

Bitrate, the more the better, but then you need "processing power". you need a powerful processor to stream to a server for streaming to multiple websites. Intel Core 9 ?? or Core 7 Maybe yeah.

Memory they say 4 GB is enough but is that with plugins ? I think most computers would have 16GB these days 32 would probably be over kill.

Fast internet connection especially the "upload speed" download is good but UPLOAD SPEED is very important.

Now the problems with better quality is that it requires as you know a lot of processing power. A fast processor with a powerful video card and lots of memory especially if you have lots of tabs open and plugins hogging resources.

Also you need storage and best storage is probably Samsungs 970 1TB SSDs.

I guess all this info is useless unless you have the funds to buy it.

I saw a Russian girl buy all the equipment straight away. She bought I guess a Sony A7S ii ? something like that and yeah her image quality was incredible.

Again lets go over lighting. Light is so important. I know this girl and she has a hot body but she just doesn't have enough light. its just too dark.

Another aspect of lighting is the temperature of it in kelvin. I would stick to 2700K to 3200K its stamped on LED bulbs. Warm white to me is warm and makes your skin look better.

Cold blue LEDs NO !

You know the basic 3 light setup with the right angles and the right height. Yes height is important. you want a glint in your eyes otherwise eyes look dead.

there is a light setup just for women portraiture. It has to be the right height and the correct angles and it may not be suitable for models that are moving around.

accents are nice and yeah I would add them but if you constrained by money then like you said maybe its not that important.

okay now erotica again.

I guess what is erotic for one man may not be erotic for me.

I don't think toys are that erotic its not the main thing that gets me aroused.

in fact they kinda kill my vibe.

what a girl does with her fingers is what I find erotic the speed that she does it at her breathing.

Masturbation is very erotic especially if she does it slowly. Just watching a girl masturbate is such a turn on.

I guess everybody has gone home by now and or gone to sleep. lol Ive been typing this for hours.
Sorry to tell you this but you wasted a couple of hours.
A lot of what you have here either dosnt apply or is wrong.

Bitrate for example "The more the better". While higher bitrate = more data, a crazy high bitrate dosnt do anything when videos are posted on the web. Server space is expencive and sites compress the videos during upload. When you compress a video a lot of the storage saving is in lowering the bitrate. So shooting in a high bitrate just uses more storage space than nessisary, if shooting in log it can be helpful since you need to do color correction, but I have a feeling most people just shoot auto which uses the cameras color settings to grade the video as it's being shot, which in reality is good enough.

Looks like you dont know the tech either, an I9 is great if you can keep it cool, but you can stream to multiple sites with an i5 that is a couple of years old and using off system restream services you can even get that down to an i3. Ram requirement depends on how much you plan on doing at the same time, 4gb though? This isnt 2004, windows on it's own can use more than 4gb of ram. Broadcasting to a single site, not planning on doing any video editing the minimum you are looking at is going to be 8gb and if you are buying a system now I wouldnt get anything with under 16gb. OBS, Video Editing Software, Web Browser, They are all extreamly ram heavy applicaions. If planning to do video editing then I would say 32gb should be the lower end people are looking for, 16 will work but as an example I have 40gb in my system and my video editor doing a basic edit will use over 20gb of ram. You can get away with less, these things are designed to use the resocurses avalibule so it's not going to crash if theres not enough, it will just slow things down because it needs to wait for ram space to become free.

Resolution
1080p is your preferance. It is not a requirement.
Some of my best selling videos to this day are ones that were either shot at 480p. Even videos that have an option for 1080p I have some that sell more at 480p. It depends on the customers PREFERANCE and what fits the tone of the video. For example shooting an 80's vhs style video (where you have the scan lines and everything added in to the video) 480p is a more suitable resolution than 1080p because it fits the style of the video. With filmmaking there is no definitive right and wong (well there is one... take the lens cap off before filming is the right thing to do 😂 ) but when it comes down to everything about the shot and the editing its about setting a tone.

A better example of film noir lighting would be an actual film noir movie, double indemnity is one of my favorites in the genre.

"Silence is more erotic than moaning or saying things that that are just not erotic."
Again Preferance.

"Cold blue LEDs NO !"
Not always, it depends on how the light is picking up color off objects in the room.

"A young 18 year old model thats beautiful and has a hot body has a distinct advantage just like a 6 foot man that has a lot of wealth and is very good looking is going to have an unfair advantage."
Someone dosnt understand markets. There are these things called catagories, they help customers find what they are looking for. 18 year olds dont do that well with the Milf guys for example.

Just about the only thing in that I would agree with (although I only skimmed it and having seen how much of what I skimmed was just wrong I wont even bother to read it) is foucs. Being in focus is important, kind of like being in the frame is important, or turning the camera on, didnt really think making sure the subject is in focus (sometimes thats not a whole person but a very specific body parth) is kind of so obvious I dont really think it needed to be mentioned.
 
Resolution is absolutely important and can not be underestimated . if your hot and your cam is poor quality your potential is stopped or very difficult to gain traction. I've seen so many camgirls that had poor quality cams that hurt their income.

640 x 480 you might as well not bother trying. its just not good enough.

1080p is mandatory really although 720 with good optical quality from a really good quality camera might actually be good enough still the more resolution then the higher the image quality.
Having higher resolution is nice, but not mandatory. You have to remember that a lot of people are not watching in full screen in order to have chat open. Also some are watching on their phones where lower resolutions isn't as noticeable.
What's also important is frame rate 60 might be better than 30.

as you pan up and down and left and right the higher frame rate is better and smoother.
It's only better if it translates to more money, and most people aren't panning the camera while they cam.
Bitrate, the more the better, but then you need "processing power". you need a powerful processor to stream to a server for streaming to multiple websites. Intel Core 9 ?? or Core 7 Maybe yeah.
It's better just to stick to the websites recommendations, you get diminishing returns increasing bitrate. You don't need a powerful processor, anything made in the past 5 years should be able to handle streaming easily.
Another aspect of lighting is the temperature of it in kelvin. I would stick to 2700K to 3200K its stamped on LED bulbs. Warm white to me is warm and makes your skin look better.
The colour temp of a light is irrelevant if you don't factor in the white balance of the camera. Warm lights aren't best, it's all just preference.
there is a light setup just for women portraiture. It has to be the right height and the correct angles and it may not be suitable for models that are moving around.
Lighting for stills is not the same as lighting for video where a subject is moving, you acknowledge that but then still bring it up?

There was quite a lot said here, though most of it isn't lighting related so I skipped it