Alex Ramsay Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 In case nobody has seen this - look and learn! #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 They almost deserve to be infringed. Only kidding. Bad IP is still IP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 1 minute ago, funkyworm said: Ha! One of them is mine! Ow. Sorry. Sue immediately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Should we be encouraging people to post unlicenced watermarked stock images on Twitter (even if only by increasing the number of views)? Isn't it the kind of thing we rail against and are told there is nothing Alamy can do about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 1 hour ago, funkyworm said: Ha! I am not sure I should admit it, but one of them is mine! Does it sell? wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Which are cliche for a reason. However some people love cliches more than others. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Let's check if some images from this list of shame are selling. google Small fry. But google thinks it's the San Francisco skyline, that doesn't help. These are selling way better: google google 1 google 2 google 1 google 2 google 1 google 2 google 1 google 2 google 1 google 2 Maybe I should produce more bad stock photos. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Myford Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 2 hours ago, funkyworm said: Ha! I am not sure I should admit it, but one of them is mine! Just as long as it isn't the one showing someone holding what would be the (very) hot end of a soldering iron (if it were plugged in): that's bordering on criminal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nacke Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Alex, Nice and I am embarrassed to say that I have shot many like this for clients and they used them......... Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, Chuck Nacke said: Alex, Nice and I am embarrassed to say that I have shot many like this for clients and they used them......... Chuck Chuck, now I'm embarrassed for making fun of them.....Serves me right. No reason to be embarrassed about work that's bought and paid for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 7 hours ago, funkyworm said: Ha! I am not sure I should admit it, but one of them is mine! Come on, don't leave us hanging - which one, which one?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Actually, that site filled a 40 minute train ride and the subsequent 20 min bus ride with me having tears running down my face. Thanks, Alex. @Joseph: whether we like it or not, it's parody, so "fair use". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariaJ Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 8 hours ago, wiskerke said: Does it sell? wim I looked up one of the more bizarre ones (gyno eating a sandwich during an exam) and found it being used on several sites! That was surprising. Maria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptoprocta Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 9 minutes ago, MariaJ said: I looked up one of the more bizarre ones (gyno eating a sandwich during an exam) and found it being used on several sites! That was surprising. Maria That stuff - typical micro of about ten years ago - was, apparently what the buyers wanted then. Who says the buyer is always right? Some of the pics, to be fair, were set up in such a way that a designer could add their own copy, or fit them into a composite. Others really speak of the restrictions of shooting commercially-available images without releases for the most commonly used equipment, and the workarounds which an expert in the field would spot immediately, but maybe not a designer. But most of them ... <rolls eyes> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Clemson Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Cryptoprocta said: Actually, that site filled a 40 minute train ride and the subsequent 20 min bus ride with me having tears running down my face. Thanks, Alex. @Joseph: whether we like it or not, it's parody, so "fair use". Hmm, it may be technically fair use (though I thought the source of each image ought to be credited in such cases). However, what I'm getting at it that such fine distinction as 'fair use' is probably lost on most non-photogs, and seeing watermarked images freely used on a Twitter feed simply goes to reinforce the widely held notion that anything (image, text, music) found on the internet is free and fair game for whatever use people want to make of it. I know I'm preaching to the converted here, but it does jar with me somewhat when I see such usages and even those with a vested interest (the photographers) turn a blind eye to possible infringement. I know we are swimming against the impossibly strong tide of the idea 'the internet is free' but I like to think we are still trying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 The one of the woman holding the soldering iron brought a wry smile. I started my working life as an apprentice TV engineer and can still remember dropping my soldering iron and instinctively grabbing for it. You only do it once.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 3 minutes ago, Vincent Lowe said: The one of the woman holding the soldering iron brought a wry smile. I started my working life as an apprentice TV engineer and can still remember dropping my soldering iron and instinctively grabbing for it. You only do it once.... Exhaust pipe of a motorbike: same thing, just bigger. Thank heaven for gloves. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 It may be a cliche... but it sold today km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 More fun (?) here. You do have to click on view a lot because of sensitive material. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Ashmore Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 i think sometimes people like cheesy stock photos. Some of these images, I could well imagine being in the tabloid press. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDoug Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 33 minutes ago, Matt Ashmore said: i think sometimes people like cheesy stock photos. Some of these images, I could well imagine being in the tabloid press. Here's a stock photo I took. Not sure if it's cheesy, but it was shot in Holland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Johnson Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Just shoot cheesy stock until you can shoot nicer. I keeps you in practice and who knows, might sell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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