currently i own my own internet firm, developing hundres of websites en e-commerce sites i am involved in a lot of stock photography on the buyers side, since i am also a professional sports photographer thats going more and more towards studio stuff i think stock is great to make practice shoots worth while in stead of just shooting to shoot.

the clean, models, acting stuff is something i'm annoyed to aswel, more and more web clients ask me to come up with photos of real stuff, real people and such, but why are the Yuri arcurs of this world so successful? i do respect he's work and i realy love it, but for use i think its way TO clean, to white, to plastic.

Is this what you guys see as a trend going more realistic and less stock like

Quote from: lisafx on May 05, 2012, 11:27

...I've always shot realistic models in real life situations, but Yuri, Monkeybusiness, etc. outsell me by a wide margin, so obviously there's a great demand for what they do.

Depending on what your goals and financial needs are, there's nothing wrong with filling niches with solid, but not huge, demand. Yuri & Monkeybusiness may outsell Lisa, but there's still a solid and arguably longer-term demand for the closer to real life work that Lisa does. Trends and fads change pretty quickly, but the work Lisa does will probably stay relevant for much longer.

My stuff is in a lower demand area than Lisa's, but it still sells and it's also for the most part long-lived (no fashion, not much technology, few quirky/fadish processing techniques).