D. There was the same - ruin the market - argument against royalty free CD's with ten different rubber duckies and generic calendar scenics back in the 80's . I went to some micro stock pages I found in Shutter Bug and they didn't function well and had rotten pictures. The purpose-made illustrations are uniformly tacky. Might as well go to Google Images. I still haven't found a suitable office cubical picture! The search engines are all kind of psycho. I entered " ethnic wall murals" in Corbis or Getty one time and got my wife's university web page! AZ Build a 120/35mm Lookaround! The Lookaround E-Book 5ed. NOW SHIPPING http://www.panoramacamera.us > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Free-almost free pictures? > From: David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b@xxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, August 07, 2009 1:59 pm > To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students > <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Fri, August 7, 2009 12:33, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I disagree that stock can't keep up though. In fact unless you are > > looking at something particularly unique its probably already out there. > > I recently read a story on strobist about a guy, Danish I think, had a > > studio of 10 or so employees and tens if not hundreds of thousands of > > dollars in equipment to sell images at a dollar a piece. The guy doesn't > > seem to realize he will be the victim of his own success. He is > > destroying the market which is paying his bills and fostering a mindset > > that images have little or no value and that includes his. > Why do you think he'll do his own business model in? So far as I can see, > his business model is selling a high-quality product at current > micro-stock prices. He's built it up at current prices; he's not > dependent on old-style high stock prices (which most of my web clients > laugh at and reject out of hand), he should be excellently positioned to > thrive in the current market. > -- > David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ > Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ > Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ > Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
