You won't sell puck all calendars of girls in lingerie. See that shit in a target catalogue these days...

Tap into the market your chasing..
You could sell 1000's if you.
1. Did it right. An actual production, not a lounge room with a white sheet draped from the roof..
2. Had time, money, contacts & a theme..
3. Had a market to sell too.
4. Had contacts with wide marketing appeal.

About 7-8 years ago, some mates put together the 'miss Motorsport' calendar of wa.

Held heats in Perths nightclubs to find 'talent' (girls willing to take there kit off an drape themselves over a race car of some description..) they were bikini clad, not nuddy...
Found blokes with good lookin cars from all walks of Motorsport, booked a shoot.

Boom.
Calendar made... Sold for $20 if I remember. Karl on here was pretty involved. He may chip in..

Now...
Company called crazy sexy cool, have a large talent pool and put together heaps of calendars every year.. Hold bikini contests weekly at various establishments..

Brian white photography is 1 I can think of off top of my head that has the skills and a studio.. ( think he did the calendar I referred to earlier..)

Decide which market..
1. A tasteful Motorsport and sexy ladets, (bikini or implied) to sell to independent servos, auto shops, panel shops, workshops, newsagents, motoring shops... Etc etc..

Or

Tap into the male genius and;
2. Soft core- tits out for the boys
3. Hardcore- self explanatory..

1 sell more at smaller margin. (Wont pay premium for women's day)
2 sell less at average margin (think picture mag)
3. Sell a few at high margin. (Think stick mag..)

Sex (lack there of clothing) and car porn sell in any language..

Is that the help you wanted?

Marketing degree and general interest in Motorsport & wobblers got me where I am today...





Poor...

What I'd pay and guys pay would be different!

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^^ this guy, hit the nail on the head imho

Every man and his dog with an SLR is a photographer. Emjay, you've got a good platform to work on in regards to your lighting, etc. but before you try branching out into printed media you really need to be able to produce something different, and also hone your craft to a commercial level. Shooting two-bit amateur models on a plain white background isn't appealing sorry to say. Bare backgrounds are usually reserved for fashion images/portraits. Glamour portraits usually have a setting. These are just model development/portfolio type shots. Why would anyone buy them when they can trawl Facebook for random girls who call themselves models and just ogle at them on their monitor?

The second model looks as though you've smoothed the hell out of her skin, yet the first model has clearly visible stretch marks on her right breast. No consistency with your post-processing going by that. Also the hardest part of shooting females is the difference is skin tone due to makeup on the face, fake tans, real tans, etc. Unless you know how to (and willing to spend stupid hours doing so) evening out the skin tone on every single limb and face, again the images will just look naff.

What I'm saying is you've got a long way to go before venturing into the commercial world. You can say that about 75% of Perth's self-professed photographers though. You've obviously got some inkling of what you're doing, just take it further with something unique and make it better before trying to part fools with their money.

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Make an app, sell the app, each day there is a new girl being fisted.

Charge 99 cents

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Id pay 1.99 if it was Burke - in a different pose every day

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