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Originally Posted by xenigo
Serious reply? I'm straight. I've shot a shit-ton of gay content over the course of many many years and sold thousands of memberships... and maintained a very consistent business shooting content for major gay websites. The differentiating factor is "are you a photographer that gives a shit?" Not "are you a fan of the niche?"
Any photographer who knows anything about lighting and composition can shoot any niche if they know what the niche is about, and be very very successful.
Now, whether they WANT to do it... that's another factor entirely.
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Well, you at least seem to understand gay porn then - which qualifies you to shoot it (although maybe a GAY photographer with the same skills and knowledge COULD shoot better content) and which kind of prooved my point ... as I said you either get off on the stuff yourself OR you understand it ...
Trust me, I've tried out various photographers and producers to produce micro niche content, all over the world, in house, etc. - only a very small % got it right. It's not about lighting or great photography - it's about understanding the niches, focus on the right details, shoot the right angles, noticing when the model isn't doing something right, etc.
To pick up the gay porn example - it's still porn. I don't know anything about it, but I'd assume it's not that MUCH different than straight porn ... now imagine you'd shoot a scene where a model crushes balloons like someone mentioned above - that has nothing to do with porn and only very few people would know how to shoot it - correct? (And that isn't even one of the "weirder" fetishes ...)
I've seen a ton of new producers on our own video sites and on sites like clips4sale that went online and disappeared a few weeks/months later - simply because they didn't earn what they expected to earn. On the other hand I've seen girls shooting their own crappy videos (quality wise), weren't "good" looking but got the niche 100% and earned a lot of cash over the time ...
Again, no pun intended, maybe you're one of the 1% that would be able to do it right
