Pornography

[spiffybeth]

porno - good.

if you look at it and it stimulates you, then why would you be concerned about the lighting?..it's done its job.

and if your concern is that there are photographers making money off this and their lighting (or whatever else) is terrible, then it sounds like jealousy and you should change what you photograph...

chances are, there is always someone getting aroused by a picture that isnt meant to be porn. its about time we got over it.

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Has anyone here actually shot any porn, for pay?

I did once, many years ago. I was fresh out of high school and doing whatever I could to make money with a camera. A friend of mine said his dad wanted me to shoot some photos of the old man's girlfriend in her bathing suit. And the kicker was that he would pay me 350.00 for about two hours work. That was a lot of money back then for a kid to make.

So I show up at the guy's big, fancy house and was led into the back yard. There was a huge pool and the yard was bordered by a 10 foot wood security fence. I was astonished to see about 4 or 5 guys milling about, setting up two movie cameras and lights. This was being shot on film, not videotape. My friend's dad walked over, slapped me on the back and stuffed 400.00 dollars in my pocket and said they were filming a little movie and my job was to shoot stills. He asked me if I brought plenty of film and then told me that when I was done, to just give all the film to one of the assistants.

So, the actors come out and get down to business, and I thought I was going to pass out. I had never even seen a porn movie, much less shoot one. I was scared to death that the cops were going to bust in any minute. But I stayed and shot it.

Was I aroused? You bet. I was 19 years old. A few weeks later, my friend said his dad wanted me to shoot another one. I turned it down. And I really thought long and hard about that. Like I said, that was a lot of money back then. But I was just not comfortable shooting stuff like that. I did not find it disgusting or anything like that- it was just something I did not want to get involved in. I have no idea what the point of this story is, except to say that over the last 30 years I have shot all kinds of things, but that one remains probably one of the strangest things I ever shot.

For what it is worth, I don't see a problem with porn. To each his own. Whatever works for you- whether you be male, female, straight, gay, whatever.....

 

[RubyMagic]

as for me, i think of it kinda like this........
do not do anything that you would not do in front of your mom.

pornography is typically the explicit visual and audio recording of sexual intimacy between people.

It's nasty.
It has denotative connotations.

:thumbdown:

I wouldnt have sex with my wife in front of my mom, but that doesnt stop me...

 

[Roger]

porno - good.

if you look at it and it stimulates you, then why would you be concerned about the lighting?..it's done its job.

and if your concern is that there are photographers making money off this and their lighting (or whatever else) is terrible, then it sounds like jealousy and you should change what you photograph...

chances are, there is always someone getting aroused by a picture that isnt meant to be porn. its about time we got over it.

this is such a common sense post, simple, to the point and balanced...a shame most of the populace is so far away from this approach.