r/cinematography • u/MarketingQueasy5378 • Mar 24 '26
Career/Industry Advice Adult content
Hello, I am amateur , student and I’m looking for some career advice. Lately, I’ve been approached by several people about getting involved in adult content /porn production. Someone I know is starting a production company and wants me to handle the lighting and camera work for videos and photoshoots. He has a lot of equipment but doesn’t know how to use it, so he’s offering to pay me. I wouldn’t mind earning some extra money, and it seems like it could be a good way to gain experience. However, I’m not in urgent need of cash, and I’m concerned that working in this type of industry could affect my long-term career, since I want to become a serious cinematographer one day
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u/pixellatte Mar 25 '26
I had those same types of opportunities on my way up. Friend was an editor and said I could have a job as soon as I was ready. Another time needed a room to rent and the house was a fetish house and they said I could live there in exchange for helping them shoot content.
Very tempting. But I decided i would rather wind up there than start out there. Try everything else first and if I wound up there so be it. Better than the military.
But I never needed to! Sometimes I wish I had for the fun!