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    Default Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    What do you girls do when getting ready to cam? I drive myself insane (I do have some anxiety as well) getting the lighting perfect, cam position perfect, my position perfect, settings on web cam settings (contrast, brightness, ect) perfect. I spend 30 minutes each time I am ready to cam getting all this situated then once I am on cam I am constantly ending free chat because I need to readjust it again, and again and again! I put so much energy into this it takes away from my focus on the customers in the room or I am just frusterated once I finally get on cam I'm in a crappy mood - does anyone else deal with this or am I just nuts?

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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    I do it too, really brings out my OCD so ur def not alone. I try to keep my set up the same after I log off for the night so im not spending so much time readjusting the next day.

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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    Ha! Yeah, this is me all the way too. As I was tweaking and setting up last night...and during, I was thinking I should ask the ladies here if that was normal. I guess it is. I feel better.


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    Its alot easy to take sometime that your not going to be working and set up your cam. then if your lights I put tape on the floor to know where to position them for next time. so that way each time I log on I am not wondering which one is the right position.
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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    I do it too, even if my lights are in the same position always..
    its becoming easier now but I still obsess over it..
    Hey, we gotta obsess over something!

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    It takes me about ten minutes, honestly.

    But I am lucky enough to have a separate cam room, so I just leave my cam and lights in position and turn them off. When it's cam time, then I turn on the lights and spend a couple seconds adjusting for daylight coming in the window, and off I go!!
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    I have never been big into the whole lighting thing....most off the type I just cam with my over head lights on....I did just buy a light at target and placed it because I need so more lighting....I just make sure I buy nice light bubs and many different types of light bubs.... My cam also has right color and I just use that....If they can see you clearly and you are not yellow or red or green.... your lighting is fine......

    all the type you spend changing your light on cam is less time spent camming making money.... I thing us girls notice the light more then the guys.....

    Hell my room went from white to red and gray and the guys did not even notice

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    I am crazy about lighting in my room, its because im desperately trying to "hide" my stretch marks on my stomach ....waaatevaaa! some days it seems my lighting is behaving better then other days...its wierd. If i didnt have anything to hide on my body..i dont think i would really give a rats ass to be honest lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by CinnimonKiss View Post
    I am crazy about lighting in my room, its because im desperately trying to "hide" my stretch marks on my stomach ....waaatevaaa! some days it seems my lighting is behaving better then other days...its wierd. If i didnt have anything to hide on my body..i dont think i would really give a rats ass to be honest lol
    Ooh, I do that too! I get psoriasis quite badly sometimes, and I just bump the exposure on the cam up waaaaay high, and hey presto - its gone! LOL
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    I used to be that way but I don't stress too much anymore. I just keep telling myself "Time is money!"
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    When you start getting stressed out about it, do what I do. Remind yourself, "It's just porn." These guys aren't expecting a masterpiece of cinema. As long as they can see you and hear you well enough to jack off, they don't care.


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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    thanks girls for your responses - atleast I know I'm not alone. The past few nights I've made next to nothing because I'm too busy making sure everything is perfect becoming frustrated and then spend an hour on cam and call it a night which can't be an every night occurrence because as of right now this is the only income coming in. Do any of you find that if you are dreading getting on cam or just outright exhausted from your day that you make less than the nights when you are actually more enthusiastic about it? I'm starting to see a trend that if I'm not into it I might as well just take the night off because I'm not going to make much $ of course if the night starts out good my attitude changes real fast haha.

    I think I just need to discipline myself as of right now I am staying on until 2am and by the time I wind down, respond to email, record earnings, check of SW , and get myself ready for bed it is between 4-5 am and then I am sleeping past noon. My daughter just started school so I can work during the day now but I worry that the evenings is where the $ is....

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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    Hi, u should not stress urself that much, most guys are not that picky, they barely notice changes not to talk about light or other fine things.
    They have no real perception of fine adjustments, men can do/see one thing at a time, so if he is horny he cant think of anything else, make sure he sees you and ur hotness, if light and colors are looking decent it's enough for the horny guy looking to wank over you.

    On a side note i am always amazed how these guys manage to show their cams, they have no idea how to set things up and to use a desk lamp or something in order to be seen, if it's nite when they cam2cam with us u'll mostly see them in dark or just a little light from bad lighting sources, i sometimes ask them to set more light or just ignore everything, give them compliments even i barely see something and go on with my show.
    The most amusing situation was when a black guy opened his cam and it was dark in there and could not see him at all hahaaaa, i was like wtf, where r u??!! cant see u??!! HAAHAA!! I was playing "blind"!!

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    Mine is re-doing my eyeliner, smudging the 'flicks' off and putting them back on until they are both even. takes me like 10 minutes sometimes. and another is making my wig straight, i take that off and on again about 10 times. i dont really care about lighting and cam settings, they are always the same and never move so i never have to bothered with them.

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    Here is what I do I put my laptop on the chair, I hang the bright light ($20 one from home depot) right behind the cam and turn on my built in cam on my laptop... Never adjust any settings or anything... I am making more money now then what I made when I still had and used my $100 logitech... Funny how it works... ye I know, quality is not the best, but I get away with it with the bright light. I actually kind of like how even and soft my skin looks with this build in cam I am not rushing to get a new cam. I will, eventually, when I figure out how to do my new set up...

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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    I bought those daylight lightbulbs; one for the over head light and I grab the lamp from my bedside table (Every time I cam! Pain in the ass to constantly move lol) and I put it on my desk behind my laptop. Im not an expert on lighting but I think the lighting is perfect (enough for me) after I do this.

    As for camera settings, I'm still experimenting. Lately I've been turning down the contrast (to hide my scars and eczema) and turning up the color intensity (I wear alot of bright colors on cam and the bright lighting from my lamp washes me out). The camera settings save after I change them, but I usually reset them and start over everytime I log in lol

    Oh! And as for those little ocd habits Im CONSTANTLY reapplying lip gloss and brushing my weave/wigs. I have HUGE lips and Im obsessed with my hair. I used to have yarn braids (they look like dread locks) when I first started camming, but as soon as I started wearing my hair straight my earnings increased drastically. So I have this theory that if my hair is fucked up I wont make money. Stupid I know lol
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    Default Re: Lighting, tuning camera, setting up - driving me insane!

    thats why I set up my own cam room. I don't have to set up, clean up, anything. All I do is move my laptop around with me. And really, all it is, is a room built off the garage with a twin size bed and pink sheets graffiti'd on the walls. BAM

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