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I have always liked taking photos of cars and isolating them, those photos have always sold pretty well for me to but recently im having a hard time getting them accepted. Fotolia wont take them, and istockphoto sent me to this link http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=413&Page=2 when I asked them about it.

This seems pretty crazy to me. Some cars are pretty obvious what they are even if all the logos are removed, but what about the more generic Hondas, Mazdas, etc?

This is one am having a hard time with that luckily was accepted by Shutterstock.



What drives me crazy too is that there are so many car photos out there already what good is it doing by not taking any new ones? Wouldn't all the old ones be just as much of a copyright risk?

iStock actually removed one of my car shots.
There was a model in the shot & she was the main subject, but
The type of car was still too unique and recognizabe for their comfort.

Thanks for the tips. I think they just dont want the car as the main subject. It seems (in my opinion) that cropping would only lower the value of the photo, but I guess if that is the only way to get them accepted that is the only option.

No bikini... But she was sitting on the car in some frames.

Good point Mr. Done 

I guess you cant really blame these sites for trying to protect themselves and the photographers, it just seems like they are also shooting themselves in the foot by limiting what they accept just because it might get them in trouble down the road.

Ya, that is what gets me. iStock is so crazy about copyright rejects, but just do a search for any given car make and see how many results you get with those names in the keywords.

Mazda = 59 results
Honda = 262
Ford = 870

Something interesting happened at SS... See here

 http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=57357

Ford contacted SS about the uses of their trademark (cars) on the site

Quite a few of those best-selling images are 3D renders. Mark Evans has a bit of a specialty line in 3D sports cars, although I see Mr Locke has a few too. I've heard that most car advertising these days is 3D render anyway, and other products too. Sign of the times...

I was referring to the fact that its just going to get harder to get car photos accepted at SS now too, not that Ford asked them to be more careful about what they accept. I can understand that.

Guess im going to have to fire up 3d Studio Max and start making some cars.

Are u selling anything there. It´s mostly 3d models?

Above site have this kind of user agreement:

 "Licensing of any copyrighted materials or brand names of may still be required and is the responsibility of the Member Buyer to obtain if needed"       

What´s the problem?

The only time I bother with cars anymore is if I'm shooting closeups, or isolated parts.  

Turbo 3.8 v6 and the thing dips.