explico_photography

I asked this question about my work on a popular adult business forum.

"what do you people really sells better I am a photographer I shoot fetish work a great deal in the underground art scene. I am starting to put out content for webmaster for sites but I am asking myself am I spending to much time on style. Do viewers really want that, is there a place for it in the over all business of things.... Please look at my image sample. My work gets pretty hard core along these lines, lots of color and contrast but is it a distraction from the over all idea that a person is really just going to beat off to these pictures and not hand them on their wall.

for some reason I can't link or attach images so please check my website for samples"

a person responded:

"This type of content has a hard time getting monetized, because so many credit card processors will not deal with a Web site that displays blood in connection with a sexual scene, even artificial blood (or simulated sex). So already you have dramatically limited your potential customers if you're looking to sell your content.

Art is art, but if you're trying to make money from it, you've chosen one of the most difficult photographic forms to do it."

I am to porn to be art to art to be porn... The middle, alwasy the middle. In a push to to touch the edge of what is possible I find the middle.

Blood is bad... I know this. I am not into the blood shoot and yet so much of my work has blood or some kind blood like thing. I think it comes from when I was a young man in College. Me and my girlfriend at the time had a bit of a crazy relationship. She was rich, I was a staving student of art... Drugs oh my we were bad kids. She went down hill really bad really fast. Got into a program I member sitting at a bar just out side of the station on 72nd street in New York as she would go to her AA meetings. So as one would think things did not go well. And I remember one day she took a bath, and I got this idea that she had been that tub for to long I knocked on the door all I could hear was her crying. It was an old NY door even if locked you just shoved and it opened. It did and their was lots of blood she had the most pale skin and red blood. I hate the blood shoot and yet I do it.

The funny thing is about this shoot to is that I was not even thinking blood it is red lipstick. I was sex she has lip stick on her hands, and on her mask... It is a big kiss. Not blood. So strange but I can see why one would think that is was blood... Blood makes it scary in terms of the laws. And billing companies that deal in adult sites won't touch stuff that has to with blood. I learned this from another friend.

But I was very happy that this person who wrote this took the time to write me they told me some other details that are very helpful. But I can't stop thinking about the blood.