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01/11/2005 05:37:21 PM · #1 |
were do stock photos go? who buys them and what do they do with them?
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01/11/2005 05:41:59 PM · #2 |
advertising companies. It depends what you shoot where they'll end up. Sometimes magazines in advertisements, sometimes on a big sign at the mall. Maybe even on the side of a bus.
I'd venture to say that if you shoot for shutterstock or istock mostly all the images will just end up somewhere on the web. If you're shooting for a 'real' stock agency they'll be more likely to be on the magazines or big signs at the malls and such.
Also, look at brochures for companies. I saw a shot from istock that was used on a brochure for a bank.
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01/11/2005 05:54:47 PM · #3 |
I just saw two from iStock on the back of Digital Photography magazine. Kind of made me wonder about the current state of stock photography that someone can have a back cover ad on national magazine with art that cost a total of 60 cents.
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01/11/2005 05:58:01 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by PhilipDyer:
Kind of made me wonder about the current state of stock photography that someone can have a back cover ad on national magazine with art that cost a total of 60 cents. |
I hear you. And chances are the photog got absolutely no credit for the images either. As much as I like the idea of collecting and building up money from stock shots...I think I'm done submitting as it's really killing the industry if I do hope to ever get anywhere in photography anyway.
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01/11/2005 08:20:28 PM · #5 |
Magazines (lower-end especially, not the big ones; trade journals, travel quickies, and the like) and graphic designers consume a lot of stock photos. As do textbooks.
The graphic designers (I used to be one, and I know what goes on) especially bug me. Why? Because they CHARGE THEIR CLIENTS for the images, as if they had paid a good price for them, and pocket allt he money; photog gets none.
But it's an old argument on this site, the "new-style stock" sites. I guess they're here to stay.
Robt.
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