Frustrated With Creating Content
I just got verified on MGF and Streammate, which is awesome! I'm super happy to have those as options for extra income!
But I can't seem to get any time to take photos or videos (I have a four year old son who is homeschooled), and when I do get the time, there isn't good lighting where I live and all I have to create the content with is a crappy built in webcam and an Android sIII phone. Taking sexy photos is hard when you're doing it from a Myspace angle... I've literally taken at least 75 photos and deleted them all because they were too dark, too blurry, not high def enough. I'm about to just throw my hands in the air and give up until I can miraculously afford to buy a better webcam and some kind of lighting set up. This was so much harder than I imagined it would be. :(
After two hours of tweaking poses and trying to get something out of my wasted time, I just gave in. I have a headache now and I'm discouraged.
Should I just find a friend to help me take the photos and video with a camcorder or something?
With how low quality everything I tried to do turned out, I'm really doubting people will be interested in buying anything from me. :((
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Do you have ANY money you can put towards lighting? It makes such a world of difference, I had the worst lighting til I spent $14 ($6.99 each) on two clip on lights from Target and its insane how much better everything looks.....if you can afford a small investment it really will be worth so much to do. Since my lighting has been better Ive increased my earnings on SM from $15-20 an hour to $40-50 an hour! just from that!! its soo worth it
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Wow, I don't have any money atm to spend on any kind of lighting but hopefully later on this week I will. I would cam during the day to take advantage of natural sunlight but I'm a single mom and my son is awake during those hours. I mean not even just lighting though, it's a pain to look nice and still fit in the frame of the webcam. And selfies from a phone just look horrible when I take them.
I'll figure something out in the meantime.... I think its just the stress talking.
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Hmm, just something to try if you haven't already. Look for a self-timer camera app or even a time-lapse photography app for your phone. Lash your phone to a stable surface with rubberbands or something. Try to get the lighting as good as possible- if you can grab table/desk lamps from wherever you have them in the house, that's a good start- I use a couple of goose-necked desk lights along with a clip-on worklight from the hardware store for a basic three-point lighting setup. Set the phone camera to take a shit-tonne of pictures. Then go through them and expect about one out of ten to twenty pics to be a keeper.
I haven't done this per se (i.e. with the phone) but the auto-taking photos every 5 or 10 seconds is how I take decent selfies.
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I can't speak for any of the other camgirls, but I 'cheat'.
I just take videos and use a program to grab stills from it and then just take the best pictures out of that. ;)
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My best photos are done with natural light, so make the best of that. You can also have a friend take non-nude photos of you outside somewhere. I hope you can get lighting for cam soon, it will really make a difference.
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If you have a friend willing to take the pictures, then give it a shot. You can get some really great images in natural lighting.
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I think the other ladies have given some helpful advice about lighting, techniques etc but I also wanted to encourage you to just bite the bullet, work with what you have and go with it. I know personally, I can be kind of a perfectionist, and I can let that stop me from doing ANYTHING because it's not up to my standards. But then, at the end of the day, I've actually accomplished nothing. It's kind of an all or nothing thing with me. So while I try to shoot for 100%, the reality is that 80% or 90% is probably okay for now and I can always change things up later when I know how to or can afford to. Just do the best you can with what you have now, and make it a priority that once you have the money for a better webcam/lighting, to work towards that. But don't let that stop you from getting started! :) Good luck.
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Girl for me when I satrted to toy with the idea to cam and making content I had the same issues. But! For me it turned out to be great so please try i. Simply stand in front of a mirror and turn the phones monitor to the mirror and point the lense at you. This way u can see yourself so there is no way to make bad selfies. You can set your angles and you can find sexy poses this way. It helps a lot. I created this one with the trick I was talking about.
http://i1153.photobucket.com/albums/...ronXOXO/me.png
best of luck you can do this <3<3<3<3
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justanothercamgirl
I can't speak for any of the other camgirls, but I 'cheat'.
I just take videos and use a program to grab stills from it and then just take the best pictures out of that. ;)
You r so right <3 my best ones come from video snapshots <3
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Originally Posted by
justanothercamgirl
I can't speak for any of the other camgirls, but I 'cheat'.
I just take videos and use a program to grab stills from it and then just take the best pictures out of that. ;)
I love doing this because then they're already watermarked also. No bigger PITA then having to watermark a bunch of pics one by one....
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justanothercamgirl
I can't speak for any of the other camgirls, but I 'cheat'.
I just take videos and use a program to grab stills from it and then just take the best pictures out of that. ;)
This is what I have always done for my content aswell. I record it with a webcam or my video camera, and then screenshot the photos, and edit them later if they need to be brightened up etc. It is a slower process to sit and go through the video and edit the photos, but, it's easier then trying to snap photos with a camera by yourself.:O
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I also cheat a little bit when I'm low on time to make videos. I actually film all of my private shows. Now, some of them are crap and not worth editing but a lot of the time I actually get really good content that way. It requires a little bit of time editing but I use headphones and edit while my cam room is slow.
I'm blessed to have a professional photographer boyfriend so that's how I get my photos. He would totally do my videos but I have a hard time doing things like dirty talk videos in front of him lol. I can get on cam and have a filthy slutty mouth but in front of my boyfriend I'm all shy and innocent and shit. He gets so confused by this!