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When the first part was ready, some things grabbed my attention, and I dug deeper. As I promised in the original thread, this is the second part - and it is much less optimistic.

I'm an exclusive iStock/Getty contributor, so the report is a bit overly focused on Getty but I believe this is an universal trend.

Part 1 is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/stockphotography/s/zlsGLwBm2Q
The document is here: When Photography Becomes Raw Material

Hello colleagues.

I'm in the industry for a long time, and always trying to understand what's going on in our business. I'm an exclusive on iStock/Getty since 2007, so Getty is my first interest.

The recent state of things are disturbing, as we all know.

So, when Getty published an alarming Q2 report, I dug into the report - and then went deeper. I used the OpenAI 5.6 Sol model for research. The summary document attached is not a common "tell me ..." bullshit but a result of deep research and multi-days discussion, when we checked different theories, pulled financial reports of multiple agencies from 2023, economic data, and more.

Let's discuss. Is it something you observe, too?

Is it something you can agree with? What are your contr-hipothetises?

Long read, the text is as a docx on the Google drive: The Report

Hello community.
I'm a stock photographer on my own, iStock/Getty exclusive since 2007 (and for the last 10 years, it has been my only income). And I've been into photography for a much, much longer time.

But today I want to invite you to test my app, which is not intended exclusively for STOCK photography - but for any photo or video workflow.

I created it initially for myself — and it came out so good that I decided to make it public and commercial.

It does only one thing, but it does it properly: it ingests media cards (or existing messy archives) and makes order out of chaos.

Sounds trivial — it is not. You may say "Lightroom does it for free," or "why not Photo Mechanic," or "come on, we have OffShoot." And you'd be right... and wrong.

I created this app because when I needed it, I found NOTHING that did what I needed. I'm a Windows person; I've used Breeze's Downloader for decades — can't say I'm very happy with it, but it's good, flexible enough, and it works (for Windows, I still recommend it without hesitation). On Mac, nothing with that kind of flexibility exists. The importers built into Lightroom, Capture One, and the other RAW processors are a joke; the established ingest apps are too rigid — and at their prices, simply not viable. So I did what I did.

Welcome to test ShotPorter. It's at the pre-launch stage — you can't purchase it yet, but it's fully functional and ready for real work. All details are on the site, so I will not repeat them here.

Free trial: 30 days, no limitations, no credit card — just an email. And I'll grant a full license for bug reports with logs and/or screenshots. I'm confident it has fewer bugs than any Adobe product 

The prototype has been in my everyday workflow for about a year now and has proved safe and reliable. And it is a HUGE time saver. Believe me :)

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