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‹ Photo Notes · 3 dubna, 2020
After many years I recently revived my account on Patreon, which I had never used before. What led me to it, and what will you find there?
Patreon probably doesn’t need much of an introduction, in recent years the models have taken care of that. Still, let me present the service briefly and in simple terms.
Since I have mentioned the models, let them serve as an example. The typical tool for a model’s portfolio is Instagram. There, however, you cannot publish nudity or anything erotic. That is possible on servers like Patreon, OnlyFans and the like. At the same time there is the option of charging for access to such uncensored material.
But it is not only about photographs without censorship. These services also let you share other content, such as video, text or various documents.
I set up my Patreon years ago, but until now I did nothing with it and had no plans to. We all know what happened recently (the quarantine) and what impact it has on business. Overnight, work stopped, and so did the income from it. The expenses did not. I had to think about various alternatives, which I already wrote about in a separate article. One of the alternatives, one of the few activities I can do right now, is services like Patreon.
What will you find there?
Normally I pick the minimum of photographs from a shoot and publish those. Often it is one from the whole set. The choice is hard, because around that one chosen photo there are usually plenty of others, not necessarily worse, but I only need that one. Nobody ever sees the rest. Thanks to Patreon you can see whole unpublished series, or look at the options I chose that one single photo from, the one you have known so far.
Behind-the-scenes photos and even videos, a look backstage, are often created too. I don’t have much room for this content elsewhere either.
- Series of photographs not published anywhere else
- Videos not published anywhere else
- Alternative versions of photographs or videos
- Backstage photos and videos
- Descriptions and stories of individual series (in Czech), including how they were lit
- More or less erotic content, within the provider’s rules
At the moment my Patreon has dozens of supporters and hundreds of photographs plus a few videos, and I keep adding new ones.
It is not a scam or a free lunch. Selecting and editing that amount of material takes many hours. So if you are interested in exclusive (and often more erotic) content, I will be especially grateful for every contribution of yours in these times. I set the prices reasonably, so that a monthly contribution can be compared to, say, one bottle of cheap or better wine.
https://patreon.com/jiriruzek
Thank you for your interest and support, and hopefully see you soon in person.