It may be time to revisit porn.
A friend, JesseColtSoCal, asked us to shoot some of the video for OnlyFans and JustForFans content he was going to be in.
JesseColtSoCal came over to my home early to prepare. He turned down an offer of gear and equipment, relying the simplicity of nude bodies on a bed.
JesseColtSoCal started unpacking his gear bag, and set up stand lights around the bed. He mostly kept to direct lighting.
The other performer BigCoach8x8 arrived and was ready to begin.
BigCoach8x8 had a clearer vision of what he was looking for in the scene. He gave a practiced set of instructions in how he would like the scene photographed.
It wasn’t until I much later, when I read BigCoach8x8’s profile on OnlyFans, that I actually understood that his stage name was not about sports roleplay, but about giving constructive feedback (plus a not-subtle brag about penis size).
His instructions about photography were very much performed as coaching, both educating and trying to assure that he’d get what he needed.
The performers got ready. Action began.
I don’t have much experience taking video. I have a lot of experience taking still photographs. I did a lot of dungeon photography a while back. More recently, my pictures have been mostly long lens photographs, primarily of adorable animals in the wild.
So taking video was a challenge. As always in a tight space, everything and everyone is in the way of everything and everyone else. The two A-camera operators struggled to keep out of each others’ shots, and out of the view of the B-cameras. Moving around the stand lamps was complicated by the legs of the stand lamps, and the cords of the lights.
For my dungeon still photographs, I was normally photographing boys in bondage. These are an easy subject because they don’t move much. Long-lens photography is also somewhat simple, because moving the cameraman (mostly) doesn’t affect the shot (modulo obstructions between the cameraman and subject).
I should have done a little bit more homework, understanding the shots that were desired. While I had seen video from the performer’s previous encounter, that was a simple fixed camera shoot. I didn’t understand the tradeoffs that BigCoach8x8 was willing to make around known good shots versus potentially risky shots with a larger potential payoffs.
There was fucking and cum.
I did have to be guided once by BigCoach8x8 into a shot that would fully obscure one of the B-cameras and into the sight lines of the other A-camera.
I have seen the A-camera video and I am pleased with the attempt. I have not seen the B-camera video. So I haven’t seen how the angles will interact with each other. But I am content with my work.
There are decisions I wish I could change. A white pillow on the black sheets got in the way and was visually distracting. I should have wrapped the cord around the shaft of the lamp to keep it out of the way. I should have used gaffers tape to control the cords to the floor.
I should have set up a fixed position for the mirror-less Canon. The color on the Canon is beautiful. This would have given particularly good video of the tightening of the top’s buttocks during a deep thrust.
I suspect that indirect lighting would have been better for this scene, which would have made the flesh appear richer and more supple.
It was a fun learning experience. It reminded me how much I missed this sexually charged world. There will be more.
