andre3000 wrote:hi tommmy...many thx for ur very interesting infos about the "law and order stuff"...
only have one question?
tommmy wrote:
I'm a ex webmaster/photographer for alot of models/model websites.
why "ex"...no money in the biz anymore? or millionaire and no need to work?
Well it was easy when I started, because I had alot of the first "model" non nude/non porn, websites on the net. Then with the market sorta cornered, opening new sites was easy, because i had alot of traffic to direct where i wanted it. My sites where spinning through around 150,000 visitors a day. Alot of that coming from auto ranking top 10 lists that i was one of the first to use. But yeah after closing all sites down for about 2 years, i did try to open up some new ones. And yeah, I found it alot tougher. I think 1/2 because there's not as much money in it any more, and 1/2 from i lost the market/traffic, so had trouble getting people into the sites. Alot of credit card companys closed on me stealing 2-3 months of money each time aswell. Companies like globosale and sitecard.
As for why did i close all me sites. Well thats a long story, no one real reason, but heres examples. Basically 18yo girls are very beautiful to look at, but working with them is a complately different thing.
Examples.
Model payment is always a argument, and the models often steal the website off you.
1st way.. I offer a model a 50%/50% share of a website. with no payment for photos and no expenses. So then for 2-3 months while a photo stock pile is built, they whinge whine and complain every day and every shoot, about how they are working alot, and not getting paid anything, and how you are ripping them off.
And then after the websites open and they are earning shitloads, they work out that they are now earning alot without doing any photoshoots, so they complain about doing shoots, because they are getting paid weekly from the site whether they photo or not.
And they then decide that the sites earning money because of them, and that they think they don't need me (the webdesigner / photographer) taking 50% of site earnings, so they pay there own photographer and webdesigner PH and open there own site.
2nd way... You get sick of the above, so you just pay the models $50 a hour. get alot of photos and then open a site. So then they complain you have a website online for them earning alot of money every week while they earn nothing, and how you didnt pay them that much and ripped them off. So again they start paying a photographer and try to open their own site.
1 site, the model bought the domain name, so after about 12 months they payed a web designer and hoster to make and host a new site, and redirected the domain name off my server. I labeled all the photos copyright www.xxxxxxxmodel.com so, wasnt much i could do about the takeover/stealing.
1 site the model employed their own photographer and webdesigner and opened there own site. And then she even went out and hired models herself.
1 site i payed the model $50 ph up front for photos, then another web-designer contacted the model and offered them 50/50, so they opened another site.
1 site, I payed a photographer who photoed and payed the models, then signed over the releases to me. He decided to take those models to his own sites.
Hmmm list really does go on..
As for the models.
1. One was advertising $150 nude, $75 lingerie $50 swimsuit.
So i arranged fer them to wear and get photoed in very small bikinis. and offered them a higher lingerie rate of $75.. After driving 1000 miles/1500km to the model. They complain the bikinis are too small and refuse to wear most of them, and also complain about going into the sea with any of them, because they would go see through.. Her reasoning being that although she did nude photos, that wasn't in public, the bikini at the beach where.
2. I arrange to pay a model $75ph for nude photos, I drive 1000 miles / 1500 kms to meet a model, pay $500 to hire a studio for a day. Then straight after i pay for the studio, the model goes, sooo about pay? I usually charge $150 ph. Room was booked, so instead of shooting her for a few weeks, just payed her for a couple of hours, and refused to hire her again.
3. I arrange to pay a model for shoots everyday for 2 weeks, I drive 1000 miles / 1500km to the model, book into a hotel for 2 weeks, do a day of shooting. Then ask for id and go to pay over the cash, and i find she lied about her age, shes 17 not 18.
4. One i photoed for about 5-6 shoots. (payed per hour), during those few weeks, she got a boyfriend who didnt like the idea. So she begged for me to not use the photos I payed her for. Which i didnt.
5. One of my photographers I payed for photoing models for me, photoed some russian marfia's daughter. So when he found out, he refunded me, and asked me not to use the photos.
That list goes on aswell..
Also im married, although my mrs was ok with it, photoing models still does cause some tention.
Also the country I live in has very little poverty, most girls are reasonably confotable money wise. So hiring models is pretty hard. Here everyone wants to model in lingerie for the cover of a popular m-a-gazine for free, for fame. But no-one wants to model for a website for $50ph. So I usually flew overseas a couple of a months at a time photoing models in other countries, and then came back and opened websites for them. Travelling all the time got harder when my k-i-d-s started growing up and going to school.
So yeah looking at them's nice, but working with them usually isn't nice lol
I decided to have a less complicated simpler life lol
If a really hot young looking 18yo passed my doorstep, id probably open another site again. But only if they where really really special, and i knew they would make alot, and I cant be bothered looking for models any more.
This forum is one of the best sites I've found on the net. So i'll just stick with visiting here, and stick with the looking. lol