Webcam modelling

All posts tagged Webcam modelling

To get the best picture, one needs more than a high-quality webcam. Lighting is important.

A bad webcam with great lighting is better than a great webcam with bad lighting.

TL;DR

  • Two light sources.
  • Positioned behind the camera, to the left and right.
  • As far back as possible, at about 45 degrees, pointed right at the subject.
  • As bright as possible, but "softened", using a good light bulb, a light box, a filter, or reflecting.

Two desk lamps and your ceiling light is a basic start. Those and another two lamps pointed at the wall behind the camera would be a great start.

Continue Reading

Many streaming websites allow one to sell clips, and that should be good enough for most. Keeping ones modelling job simple lets one focus on being a better performer and not be overwhelmed.

However, at some point, a successful webcam model may want to branch out from their streaming website(s) and sell goods and videos themselves. Perhaps there is more profit in it, or they are packaging a whole-website experience.

Continue Reading

I have more notes which I will eventually get around to retiring into these pages.

hands_pulse_heart_dust-wide.jpg

Entertainment >

(on Wikipedia)

This was a project to understand why live streaming is so popular.

There is also very little information out there which targets males, so I decided to do some digging to learn more. I ended up needing to adapt female-centric writings to extract things which are gender-neutral, rewrite things so they are more presentable to a male or just write my own stuff.

While interesting, this was a side-project I lightly researched ending in August 2015, but never pursued.



Continue Reading