Just wondering what everyone does for a studio? I want to start photographing people in studio and out, outside the studio is a whole other question but for in studio once you start setting up a scene to photograph you need a pretty big space so just wondering if people are renting a space or working out of their garage or using a facility at a college or something? If you rent any tips on where to find large spaces for cheap?

My plan at the moment is to convert the garage but then I am not sure if that would come across as professional if you hire models or if it would be large enough?

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I live in Charlotte and lived in Florida for many years. I would recommend Florida long before Charlotte. Simply put, Charlotte is crime ridden and there is so little work here that the crime just keeps going up. It WAS a beautiful old southern city. Now it is a crime infested, gangland. I am not kidding. There are parts of this city the cops won't even go into because of the gangs here.

Go to Florida and enjoy the sun, surf, and seafood. I personally am leaving this cesspool as soon as I can. If you drive through Charlotte, don't stop... If you do, lock your doors. Seriously, I am not just being a jerk, I live here and the city is really gone to hell.

As for Florida, I lived in Cocoa Beach for awhile and got to watch the rockets launch from the beach... The bank industry here in Charlotte is only helpful if you have a degree and want to work in that industry (which is a very small part of the population). And the tornados, yeah. Do worry about them as they are on the rise. Season after season they have been getting more and more common.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

What about surrounding towns 20 min to an hour out? Like Kings Mountain?

I think it will mean lower pay for contributors, on the one hand it can mean more downloads of contributors images but that means more pay out from SS to contributors even though they are collecting the same amount of money by consumers so the only advantage would be trying to take costumers from iStock to compensate for everything. In the end when profits drop for SS and their Stock Holders the contributors will end up with lower compensation.

At some point there is a bottom before the entire thing comes apart and the industry falls apart. I personally think we are getting close to that bottom before veteran photographers and even new photographers say "it's not worth my time, effort and capital to produce images for these agencies anymore."

When that happens is the time photographers will have the opportunity to step in with their own sites, so start making yours now and join forces with other photographers.

If its like Netflix then its sure to Suck! Netflix online never has anything new even Redbox is better! And I think every contributor here would agree that they would get paid nothing for their photos so my guess is that 123rf or Getty or whoever is behind this new startup will be pulling content from other sites as a partner of some sort since no one will want to contribute!

Take some photos upload and see what happens.

Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has done photography in Florida or North Carolina and how humidity effects your Camera. Do things get really fogged up, do you have to take it in more often for cleaning, and what are some of the challenges of working in humidity besides sweating?

Also if you do live in these states I am thinking about moving to either Orlando FL or Charlotte NC what are some good neighborhoods or surrounding towns to live in?

In Florida is it safe to live near Cape Canaveral coastal areas, especially for hurricanes?

In Charlotte are there tornados?

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What would be a sensitive use?

Dreamstime and 123rf offer a TIFF as well - same as SS, created from a JPEG we upload.

I think the idea when they introduced this was to give the old-school macro agency customers what they were used to getting (upsized TIFFs) rather than arguing with them that the JPEG from the camera at native size was just as good.

Getting a 16 bit TIFF created from the RAW or PSD file would have some real value, but probably not enough and for too few customers to make it worth the hassle of dealing with other formats.

Pond 5 has just announced they're accepting PSDs; I sell a few PSDs at Creative Market. There perhaps will emerge more places where files other than JPEG can be sold.

At DT and 123rf  I've sold TIFF files; always amazes me, but the sales do happen

What is an upsized tiff exactly? is it any better quality than the jpeg they make it from or are you uploading tiff files to places like SS, DT etc?

When a buyer purchases a Enhanced License from SS are they getting a jpg or tiff file? If its not a tiff, does SS ever offer tiff size files for purchase?


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I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing a drop in sales everyday for the last week? Are there mass uploads to ShutterStock? I am not understanding the sudden drop off in sales, I'm a full time stock photographer so the kind of drop I am seeing matters quite a bit.

Here are the on Demand Prices but what I want to know is if they buy an Enhanced License Professional Access Subscription will they be getting an EL for .33 Cent? As there does not seem to be any other purchase plans listed.

Images on Demand All sizes
2 pics - 29$
5 Pics - 49$
25 Pics 229$

Enhanced License
2 Pics - 199$
5 Pics - 499$
25 Pics - 1699$

Or is this Enhanced License pricing listed above for both Subscription Buyers and On Demand Buyers?

Who are the 123rf partner sites and whats your take on allowing your images on the partner sites, good or bad and why?

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