Author Topic: Hot Shot Joke? (Read 22039 times)

Dreamframer · « **Reply #25 on:** July 07, 2010, 06:34 »

I completely agree with you Eyedesign, but there are much better images with emotions on microstock than these we see in hot shots collection. Not everyone is taking pictures of business people and apples over white.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #26 on:** July 07, 2010, 06:40 »

For example, for me this image is real life, and radiates emotions 10 times more than frog on the swing

Or this one. It's not "real life image" but emotions are obvious and very strong

Eyedesign · « **Reply #27 on:** July 07, 2010, 06:52 »

Quote from: Dreamframer on July 07, 2010, 06:34

I completely agree with you Eyedesign, but there are much better images with emotions on microstock than these we see in hot shots collection. Not everyone is taking pictures of business people and apples over white.

Agree Dreamframer that not everyone is shooting businesspeople or Apples on white, but to many people still are shooting these subjects. I like the first image from the above post but the other one looks way to fake and microstock like. Compare that one to the shot of the kid in Hot Shot and for me the hot shot image feels more real.

Dreamframer · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2010, 07:23 »

Of course the image of a boy from the hot shots collection looks less like a stock image because it looks more like an ordinary images that we all have at home.
In my opinion, the picture of a boy from hot shots collection is just a snapshot of a cute boy who was about to say something, so he opened his mouth. My mom has tons of images like this with my son and my nephew as models... with very similar lighting and composition.
Maybe I could tell her to send her application to Getty.
The frog on the swing is not even funny (not to mention blue color cast that was obviously not intentional).
The dog is cute, because he made that funny confused face, but I've seen much better images of dogs dressed in a funny way....so, nothing special. Plus, it's not real life like image. The dog is in the studio over textured brownish background.

lagereek · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2010, 07:34 »

Quote from: Eyedesign on July 07, 2010, 06:52

Quote from: Dreamframer on July 07, 2010, 06:34
I completely agree with you Eyedesign, but there are much better images with emotions on microstock than these we see in hot shots collection. Not everyone is taking pictures of business people and apples over white.

Agree Dreamframer that not everyone is shooting businesspeople or Apples on white, but to many people still are shooting these subjects. I like the first image from the above post but the other one looks way to fake and microstock like. Compare that one to the shot of the kid in Hot Shot and for me the hot shot image feels more real.

Yeah I agree with you Thomas, buyers dont want crap and they want images with emotions, images that convey some message, etc, I also know several buyers whos left Micro in favour of RM and RF simply because lack of creative stuff, one being an Art-buyer in one of Europes biggest AD-agencies.

To the other poster: No the bar isnt set too high at all, in fact the bar for acceptance into the files should be set even higher, getting rid of the riff-raff, etc, this easy way into the micro world is begining to give us all a bad name.

Gimmerton · « **Reply #30 on:** July 07, 2010, 09:09 »

Thanks to this post I can understand many things.

SIFD · « **Reply #31 on:** July 07, 2010, 09:30 »

another thought, if a point and shoot snap can get sold for a couple hundred dollars (guessing), why should we be selling our carefully planned, styled and executed photos for $1 or less? we must be nuts!

lagereek · « **Reply #32 on:** July 07, 2010, 10:03 »

Quote from: SIFD on July 07, 2010, 09:30

another thought, if a point and shoot snap can get sold for a couple hundred dollars (guessing), why should we be selling our carefully planned, styled and executed photos for $1 or less? we must be nuts!

Lets face it, for somebody who knows his stuff, can get great commercial images, the right equipment, etc, Micro is easy and good cash. This is why we sell our pics through micro, isnt it? I mean many of us easlily cash in 5K plus and much more per month. That aint too bad is it?
The problems creep in when the agencies cant handle it properly, when reviewing, keywording, etc, starts faulting and at the moment in my opinion they just accept anybody and everything as long as its generic, even dogs, cats and flowers seem to be a safer bet then a creative shot conveying a message.
Were back on the chocholate-box pics. Thats it. Its just far too much of just everything.
Only the other day I sent a client who was looking for a shot of a proper Engineer, what happens? first pages full of a guy in front of a computer and then with a silly hard-hat plonked on the head.i.e. a typical stereo model-shot which ofcourse was exactly what he didnt want, Civil-engineers do get dirty but these model guys are spotlessly clean as in a surgical theatre.

alias · « **Reply #33 on:** July 07, 2010, 13:36 »

There are buyers for all different sorts of styles of pictures including informal snapshots. A buyer looking for a released snapshot style image wants that style.

Odd thing about the toad is that the copyright tag says 'creative commons'. I wonder whether that is a bit of legacy metadata.

ap · « **Reply #34 on:** July 07, 2010, 15:00 »

Quote from: FD-regular on July 06, 2010, 17:59

The real dogs specialist on this forum is Artemis. Check his IS port! Far superior to this Getty snapshot.

i just saw his dog's photo on one of the email newsletters i subscribe to. come to think of it, he's actually everywhere!

Artemis · « **Reply #35 on:** July 07, 2010, 17:46 »

Quote from: ap on July 07, 2010, 15:00

Quote from: FD-regular on July 06, 2010, 17:59
The real dogs specialist on this forum is Artemis. Check his IS port! Far superior to this Getty snapshot.

i just saw his dog's photo on one of the email newsletters i subscribe to. come to think of it, he's actually everywhere!

*her*

My dog? That's neat!
I've found him back on 4 sites, but that's it.

ap · « **Reply #36 on:** July 07, 2010, 17:49 »

he's on petplace.com's dr. jon's Dog Crazy Newsletter, advertising dr. jon's favorite pet products.

so, the dog's him and artemis is her?

Artemis · « **Reply #37 on:** July 07, 2010, 18:11 »

Spot on

Thanks for letting me know (:

FD · « **Reply #38 on:** July 07, 2010, 18:12 »

Quote from: Eyedesign on July 07, 2010, 06:21

Images with real impact are hard to find on the microstock sites.

iStock actively promotes those kind of shots lately. I just love the Smoked Salmon on the IS front page now... http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=13499189
If I would open a fish restaurant, this is definitively the type image I would put up framed at the entry. The impact is classy and original.

FD · « **Reply #39 on:** July 07, 2010, 18:16 »

Quote from: ap on July 07, 2010, 17:49

so, the dog's him and artemis is her?

Artemis is a French perfume and a musketeer, one of the 3. I didn't know the stock Artemis was a she.

Artemis · « **Reply #40 on:** July 07, 2010, 19:20 »

Artemis is the greek godess of the moon and the hunt...
i think you're confused with "Aramis" from the 3 musketeers

Dreamframer · « **Reply #41 on:** July 08, 2010, 03:49 »

Yes, it's Actually Aρτεμις . She was a sister of Apollo, and a goddess of hunt, wilderness, virginity...etc.. Only later, she was recognized as "Selene", a Titaness and a goddess of Moon. In Rome she was called Diana. In other places she had different names.
There are some nice pictures of her holding a crescent moon as a bow.

click_click · « **Reply #42 on:** July 08, 2010, 07:11 »

This thread has been officially hijacked

Dreamframer · « **Reply #43 on:** July 08, 2010, 07:19 »

Quote from: click_click on July 08, 2010, 07:11

This thread has been officially hijacked

But in a nice and cute way, you have to admit

Artemis · « **Reply #44 on:** July 08, 2010, 09:19 »

Eep, sorry about that mister click_click

Back to bullfrogs on swings!

I really wonder what got into them with that one...i mean, the idea is there, but really...

click_click · « **Reply #45 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:51 »

Quote from: Artemis on July 08, 2010, 09:19

Eep, sorry about that mister click_click ...

No worries, it's ok

At least the conversation keeps going in an educational and friendly way which is rare to see in many forums these days.

Keep talking about Aramis, Artemis or Alamy if you like.

donding · « **Reply #46 on:** July 08, 2010, 11:57 »

Honestly what would a giant frog sitting on a swing with part of his legs cut off possibly be used for? Bad composition as well as commercial value. Hmmmm...maybe I need to be a reviewer..

FD · « **Reply #47 on:** July 08, 2010, 12:03 »

Quote from: Artemis on July 07, 2010, 19:20

i think you're confused with "Aramis" from the 3 musketeers

With old age, mind is the second thing to go. $:-\$

Kone · « **Reply #48 on:** July 08, 2010, 22:32 »

Hi all. I don’t want to be White Raven here but I don’t have problem with those images. Maybe boy is bit extreme.

@SIFD
Yes, we are nuts.

Suljo · « **Reply #49 on:** July 08, 2010, 23:12 »

iStock seams to be iStock anyhow.
I just waiting moment when Idiotic Lady Gaga lenses must be wannabee in iStock's vetta coljection.
Eh with they slow down rew process maybe they loose trendy crappy images like that

I think they have very very basic problems how to maintance basic site...

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