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Stocksy images for sale at CreativeMarket - Royalties?
Dave:
I came to stock photography from a traditional graphic design background, having had my own business for nearly 25 years, sold a couple of years ago.
In the last couple of years, i was dealing with the NEW breed of Graphic designer, ones that could not actually draw and knew nothing about design, but could "use" computer programs, so they would look at images on their computers that they had got from somewhere or other and create low res pdf's for proofing. Everything thing looked fantastic on the screen, but when one received the final output file "Ready for Press", they would have rgb colours mixed in with cmyk, just about every image that was supplied was 72dpi and the scale in size changed because you can do that in a computer program, No bleeds, etc, etc.
And we wonder why places like Stockys amd Creative market place exist, it is because they are dealing with people that think what they see on a computer screen is how it will look at output. Both of these site promote themselves as hipsters and trendy but that is just an excuse for bad quality.
And in the end the our industries skills, knowledge and quality go down the drain.
You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear!!!!
weymouth:
There are so called hipster agencies, traditional agencies that will simply knock the spots off places like Offset, Stocksy, Getty and so on. These agencies are as closed-doors for the average photographer. These places are used by many of the worlds leading Advertising-agencies and the prices for images normally runs in to a four figure amount.
I would classify places like Offset and Stocksy as shall we say the micro worlds " hipster" agencies, something slightly above all the average material but still way beneath the smaller agencies I am talking about.
Besides, this type of photography certainly isn't anything new, groundbreaking. Many used to achieve these "trendy" looks in the old film days, tweaking trannies, prints in the old dark-rooms. That took some skill actually. :)
hatman12:
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Just look at the eyeem collection on getty:
http://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?family=creative&license=rf&excludenudity=false&collections=EYM&Language=en-US
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That's a very nice collection from eyeem. I can see why Getty has pushed that collection to the front of the search results.
Deyan Georgiev Photography:
--- Quote from: hatman12 on September 25, 2015, 03:29 ---
--- Quote from: cobalt on June 20, 2015, 06:56 ---
Just look at the eyeem collection on getty:
http://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?family=creative&license=rf&excludenudity=false&collections=EYM&Language=en-US
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That's a very nice collection from eyeem. I can see why Getty has pushed that collection to the front of the search results.
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Really nice collection, i already got a sale from Getty thru Eyeem.
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