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Agency Based Discussion => Adobe Stock => Topic started by: Hildegarde on February 22, 2016, 15:58

Title: Similars
Post by: Hildegarde on February 22, 2016, 15:58
Now that I see some accounts have been blocked on Fotolia for too many similars, I guess I have questions about what is too similar?

If you photograph food, must the plates/glasses etc be different all the time even if the food is different?
If you photograph particular animals a lot?  As a photographer this is what interests me..  so some are different seasons, usually different because I get bored if I feel I am just doing the same image. 
If you photograph sports (animals), is it enough to have different dogs or if the same animal, different sports/equipment?
Etc etc.... 

I wish I could look at my entire portfolio there with a putting that had bigger images-- I am getting near-sighted as well as horribly near-sighted and it is almost impossible for me to see what is already there by looking at these tiny images under my files.

I generally use my own boredom as a rule but like this site because I feel like the images that get accepted and that sell there are closer to what I want to do as an artist than some of the other websites where I feel like I have to fit into their look....so want to avoid trouble while continuing to photograph what I really love to photograph.  Don't want to mess that up. 
Title: Re: Similars
Post by: Dumc on February 22, 2016, 17:01
Not for similars, but identical images.
Title: Re: Similars
Post by: HalfFull on March 01, 2016, 09:09
Not for similars, but identical images.

+1
They also recommend keeping images that are the same but processed differently (so look different) to approx 3 I think.