no prob. I can tell you guys what we have done. Kush, we run dormangels.com - - so I'm particularly interested in working out an arrangement with you. Hopefully we could get 1 new Texas sweet heart a month. =)
For the stills we bought a Olympus C - 3000. It runs between $550 and 600. It can also work for short videos - up to 60 seconds.
When you want longer videos. We also bought the CanonDV. It's a good little camera. 800 bones. I'm convinced that there are better sony's out there...but it gets the job done.
Candidly...you'll only need the olympus for the first few months.
That's it. We have our cameras and our laptops. (If you don't have a laptop...i would recommend getting one. When you do shoots away from home...it's nice to be able to download the pictures to the laptop during the shoot...so you don't run out of space on your memory cards. (we have a 64 mb card, it can hold 80ish images at higher quality resolutions). Otherwise you can just buy more memory cards.
My laptop recommendation - a dell(1600-2000) - I have a toshiba($1200-1500). Have had lots of problems with the network card and USB ports. The dell that my biz partner has ...has worked great. And the Dell's sound card is out of this word.
Getting models... starts out a slow process. Make yourself some flyers to post around college campus'. Post them every couple of days - - because the feminazi's/religious doogooders will take them down almost as soon as you post them.
Once the word gets out that you do these shoots... that you're not a freak...and you pay really well... people will start coming to you.
I pay a referral fee to anybody that recommneds a girl that we use. 50 bucks. Now my buddies that are hard up for cash - go out and try to recruit girls for me. It's great.
for softcore .66 - 75. cents an image. (about 100$ an hour). If we know we are going to buy a toy or bras/panties we pay her .66 - - it still works out to 100$ an hour - - cuz she gets to take home the toys/clothes.
for lesbian - we are paying 1$ to each girl per image. We haven't done a hardcore - but it would be in that area. Don't rachet up the price unless you think you have to.
if both girls are lesbians...they are going to do the shoot for the same price another girl will do the softcore. If they are kinky freaks...they will do the hardcore for about the same money.
YES - because these are first timers they will do the shoots for less money. Because these are college girls you get paid $6.75 - 8 an hour... they are going to be blown away by the cash they can make.
But we try to be fair. we could probably get away with paying a little less... but we pay about 75-100 an hour. have food and drinks at the shoot and sometimes underwear and toys for them. We're just nice guys. But it's also good business... hot girls have hot friends. If they liked the work enviroment...they'll send them your way.
JUICY links... legal info. You want to get age verification. copy of drivers license with a signed statement verifying that is her...and that she is over 18.
And you want to get a model release form...saying that you can use the images that you are taking of her. Both can be found on the internet. I would suggest having a lawyer at least look them over. But I realize that can be expensive.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Stay in touch... I'd like to hear how things are comin' along.
~BrettJ
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