Lighting - tips, tricks, links, etc.

[MarieElise]

Yeah Trent likes to write, I believe. You'd have to pay me to read that post since from a quick skim, it seems like customer talk about preferences specific to you.

Which, as others have said, isn't helpful or applicable to anyone but the model you plan on paying for your show. Pay her for reading time too btw. If I got that from a new guy, I wouldn't even bother reading it, unless it came with a substantial tip.

But yeah that post is definitely customer talk which should be on a site, and which we should be paid to have to read.

ETA; In Trent's defense his intro post does say he likes to write. But there's a line between creative writing, and advice that could be taken literally by inexperienced models, and hinder their business. I'm all for creative writing. But context... check out Literotica Trent, I feel you might like that site a lot.

 

[Deleted member 87093]

Dude, are you ok? Hours worth of advice when you've admitted you really don't know what you are talking about but are sharing your personal preference and turn-ons. You don't need to type for hours on here to give us this nonsense advice about how best to please you. It sounds like what you need is a diary?

I knew this was a bad idea. I do apologize I've become a dirty lascivious hound dog ! lol Am I okay ? I dont know, I often wonder maybe I've lost my marbles. lol Yes it did take me hours and to be honest it was a bit of a train wreck. lol a diary yeah maybe your right. sorry love.

 

[LilyLaughing]

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.

I'm here to say I make WAY MORE at age 49 than at age 24. People who have lived long enough to have sustainable income likely understand the reasons, and it's got nothing to do with the advice in this thread.

But thank you @Trent_9000 for rethinking. Genuinely appreciate constructive convo.

 

[Deleted member 87093]

Yeah Trent likes to write, I believe. You'd have to pay me to read that post since from a quick skim, it seems like customer talk about preferences specific to you.

Which, as others have said, isn't helpful or applicable to anyone but the model you plan on paying for your show. Pay her for reading time too btw. If I got that from a new guy, I wouldn't even bother reading it, unless it came with a substantial tip.

But yeah that post is definitely customer talk which should be on a site, and which we should be paid to have to read.

ETA; In Trent's defense his intro post does say he likes to write. But there's a line between creative writing, and advice that could be taken literally by inexperienced models, and hinder their business. I'm all for creative writing. But context... check out Literotica Trent, I feel you might like that site a lot.

Yes its true Marie, I guess I'm telling you something that you already know. Sorry Marie. Okay I'll keep it to myself next time.

"Should be on a site." okay.

Custom talk - okay.

Yes, I do like writing. "Context." okay yeah I guess I really screwed up there.

Litererotica. okay ...

 

[MarieElise]

Yes its true Marie, I guess I'm telling you something that you already know. Sorry Marie. Okay I'll keep it to myself next time.

"Should be on a site." okay.

Custom talk - okay.

Yes, I do like writing. "Context." okay yeah I guess I really screwed up there.

Litererotica. okay ...

You're not telling me a single thing I already know because, like I said, I didn't read it. You're not my client. Why would I?

When you are self employed your most valuable resource is your time. As far as tech stuff goes, not wasting my time reading a non models perspective. There are already several very knowledgeable models here who share in depth and relevant, accurate info. And they've already spoken in this thread, so ...

 

[Deleted member 87093]

You're not telling me a single thing I already know because, like I said, I didn't read it. You're not my client. Why would I?

When you are self employed your most valuable resource is your time.

Yes you're right. Why would you read it? Fair enough. Thats right. Why would you. Self employes yes your right why waste time on anything that you're not getting paid for?

 

[Deleted member 87093]

omg - this nightmare is getting worse ! I can't remove the up & down button which is hiding the help ! sigh.

 

[LilyLaughing]

Sorry, I also don’t have an extra 90 min to have read your post fully. I skimmed and found nonsense followed by entitlement, then re-skimmed cuz I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s okay Trent, keep writing just maybe self edit before sharing with the world?

 

[Deleted member 87093]

Sorry, I also don’t have an extra 90 min to have read your post fully. I skimmed and found nonsense followed by entitlement, then re-skimmed cuz I couldn’t believe my eyes. It’s okay Trent, keep writing just maybe self edit before sharing with the world?

okay Lily.

 

[Olive]

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.

^ this. I always do best when I got extremely sucky amateur quality of anything (except sound) I've been trying to steer away from it cause I have a harder time reusing stream recordings for content when the quality sucks, but the difference in live views is staggering (although I imagine it also depends on websites, this is specifically on CB)

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.

If you're a tease model, being out of focus can be a very good thing at times

Other than that agree 100%

 

[yummybrownfox]

Yeah Trent likes to write, I believe. You'd have to pay me to read that post since from a quick skim, it seems like customer talk about preferences specific to you.

Which, as others have said, isn't helpful or applicable to anyone but the model you plan on paying for your show. Pay her for reading time too btw. If I got that from a new guy, I wouldn't even bother reading it, unless it came with a substantial tip.

But yeah that post is definitely customer talk which should be on a site, and which we should be paid to have to read.

ETA; In Trent's defense his intro post does say he likes to write. But there's a line between creative writing, and advice that could be taken literally by inexperienced models, and hinder their business. I'm all for creative writing. But context... check out Literotica Trent, I feel you might like that site a lot.

I’d rather sit here and watch an episode of MASH …than to read his long-ass post.

 

[LilyLaughing]

I’d rather sit here and watch an episode of MASH …than to read his long-ass post.

LMAO kinda true, and MASH with the mannequin thing gave me repeated nightmares as a kid. Actually, I wouldn't do either of these things.

 

[LilyLaughing]

okay Lily.

try owning your own home indepently for 10+ years after caretaking 3 people with severe medical problems/paralysis and losing your lucrative day career due to "not being a good fit" after 7 years since you took Family Leave Act time (FMLA in the USA) and were too tired to put on eyeliner every morning and the boss accuses you of 'looking tired'. Consider, becoming physically disabled in the process. 2/3 of them DIED, those who died were my "partners" and I'm so grateful and lucky I managed to save my Dad's life. Their deaths were NOT my fault, you don't get the details. I have earned my Bitch Badge and it's not on me to read poorly written selfish whiny posts asking why I don't do this or that. Perhaps there are reasons people are busy that you can not begin to fathom to read all of your complaining words. The expectation and entitlement is beyond the beyond.