April Fool, eh?!

Nope, It's the real McCoy.

There is a lot missing from the timeline.

It's hard to discuss anything over a dollar here.

The site is missing a lot of letters and replacing some of them with weird symbols. I guess someone didn't pay the rent.

I occasionally photograph my daughter when she is at the dentist and once when she was really young being weighed on a scale at the doctors. I found you could get half decent results if you crank the ISO a bit, use a IS lens, and watch for the action to stop a bit. Usually there is some problems with conflicting light sources but you can usually find a color temp that works alright. Adding a direct on camera flash doesn't do much in this situation except Pi** off the subjects. Cameras clicking are bad enough. My experience has always been that, although friends will often help out, they often wish they hadn't. The process has to be seamless, as if you weren't there. I still use friends occasionally, but you get so much more milage and so many more usable images with models and actors. Even if it's just a TFP deal. Basic lighting isn't all that much money, even as people suggested getting the flash off camera and up at an angle but does require more set up time which is difficult to do in a working office. In my opinion what you are trying to do is pretty hard.

Ideally you wouldn't even use a doctor, maybe his office, but even they are problematic with tons of visible logos etc. It's very hard to compete using documentary style images. I had a chance to use a dentist's office for a shoot, my friend the dentist, didn't appear in a single image, it was all models with nice new clean uniforms. Patients were models. Lots of lights. Lots of money up front with no guarantee of a return. Makes you want to stay in a day job.

Under the proposal of an NDA I think it fitting that no one show up. Just politely decline.

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� a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, esp. for reasons of expediency.

Someone should forward the URL of this thread to the folks at SS.

I totally agree. I too just finished uploading a batch of clips there and found it an easy go. The only thing I would like to see is choice of higher prices. I like  the user set price scheme though, which seems to be more of a standard away from the regular micro sites. What will make these sites a chance to work is giving them first upload of the images. Even if they only get them for a week or so before others it's still something.

Needing the deciphering skills of code breaker seems a bit much to me too. I +1 hate the log in procedure.

Not quite a nightmare really, certainly not on a world scale. Try not to submit soft images in the future and all should be well.

Technically it should be RGB but some sites don't convert to sRGB for displaying thumbs, which look a lot better. So I would go with sRGB from all. Or if you have lots of time and no life you could figure out what each site excels at and submit accordingly.