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RickP
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Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/5/2007 3:12:43
Apart from MS Design Gallery Live and iStockphoto where else do people currently go for free or low-cost photos to use on web projects?
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/5/2007 4:52:02
Same as Jaybee.
I get most of mine from istock too - there are other sites but they've proved problematical for several of the people on that Sitepoint thread Jaybee has mentioned. $1 and $2 a photo can't really be argued with.
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/5/2007 15:35:34
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ORIGINAL: jaybee
If I can't get what I want from iStock then I grab the camera and go take my own.
Same here. Sometimes I use Stock.xchng and Stock.xpert as well, or otherwise I head off out with one of my cameras. I've got an old Olympus and a Minolta that I use for "serious" photographic excursions, along with various filters and stuff I got on eBay, and a little cute, cheap Vivitar that lives in my bag for those times when I see something I just gotta snap.
Can be interesting though because I have problems focusing (my eyes that is, not the camera), so I usually end up with a nice collection of "artistic" out of focus ones!  Probably the best pic I took recently was with the Vivitar of a local landmark for a site. I'd only had it a couple of days, hadn't read the instructions, and couldn't see the screen because the sun was too bright. It was literally a case of point and shoot and hope for the best, and I didn't know if I'd got anything decent until I got home.
Slight tweaking to the contrast in PSP, rotate it a bit to make it a bit more "interesting" (it was a church spire), and it's probably the best pic on the site. I amazed myself!
It's surprising the results you can get with relatively cheap kit. The Vivitar was under £40, and I use Paint Shop Pro 8 - picked it up a couple of years ago on Amazon for around £30. A few tweaks in PSP, and what was an okay photo into something you couldn't tell had been taken with a < £40 camera.
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/5/2007 17:58:07
Some nice tips there Rick. I also find my PSP for Dummies book invaluable.
You like the Fuji FinePix? I looked at those, but in the end went for a Minolta Dimage 7i - looks more like an SLR, but it's very light, and for the coolness/"I know what I'm doing" (even though I don't) factor, the zoom on it's on the lens, so you look like you're doing highly technical things with focus and stuff even when you're on fully automatic.
I love my old Olympus Camedia, but it takes Smart Media cards, which were always expensive, but now they're discontinued are extortionate. The biggest I've got is 128mb, and various SM cards are unreadable now. The Minolta takes CF cards, and I've got a 2gig card for that - plenty of room for many pics.  Fortunately both the Olympus and Minolta take 49mm filters, and I can also use the Cokin 'A' filters with them as well. Some things I do in PSP, but for gradients and stuff I still like using filters.
The Vivitar (Vivitar 3105S) is a great little camera, especially for the price, and for general stuff it's okay, but it's fixed focus, so it's not so good for close-up stuff.
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/6/2007 10:38:40
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Can't wait for gail to get here and read this.
Who's Gail? Does she know much about these things? That site site looks okay for beginners I suppose but no references to the kind of stuff Womble and I are familiar with.
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/7/2007 1:15:24
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Some of the provider sites are/ have been sued. Template providers have dropped associations and the Magazines I contacted to ask about the voracity of their free images have been conspicuous by their silence.
What's the likelihood of the webmaster getting sued for "innocently" using a photo that turned out to be copyrighted?
Would the owner issue a warning and that would be the end of it unless the webmaster refused to remove the photo... or would they sue right off the bat?
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RE: Stock Photography - where do you go? - 2/7/2007 14:14:00
That's scary stuff!
Thanks for the warnings.
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