Return-Path: Received: from mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk ([95.142.156.3] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5441501 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:33:11 +0200 Received: from [82.69.32.195] (helo=[192.168.0.102]) by mail2.eqx.gridhost.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1WcKvK-000081-BI for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:34:42 +0100 From: Mike Abbott To: After Effects Mail List Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 21:34:41 +0100 Message-ID: <14585ff6ee8.2768.8e350b80a7dd32caadd9e18830c18b9b@vantagegraphics.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 AquaMail/1.3.8 (build: 2100414) Subject: Re: [AE] stock photo sites MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------14585ff716910a6276842877860" X-Gridhost-Auth2: mda@vantagegraphics.co.uk This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------------14585ff716910a6276842877860 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Alamy.com ...and the fact that I have a few shots on offer there has absolutely nothing to do with it : ) Mike A On 21 April 2014 21:14:48 Jim Curtis wrote: > This is only tangentially related to Ae, as I'm doing some TV spots, and > need stock photos to bring in and do some animations to - the pseudo 3D effect. > > I have a beef with the low-budget stock houses like Pond5, Shutterstock, > BigStock, iStockPhoto, etc.: Most of what they have is pure crap. Their > search engines suck; returning hundreds of irrelevant results, and numerous > duplicates, wasting my valuable time. > > I know that you get what you pay for and if you want quality, you have to > go to Getty, but my client doesn't have the budget to spend $1000 for each > shot. > > There may be some middle ground sources that I don't know about. > > Can anybody recommend other sites, with useful photos that look like they > came from real life or photojournalism, and not a bunch of hokey staged > garbage with bad actors? > > > > . ------------14585ff716910a6276842877860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Alamy.com

...and the fact that I have a few shots on offer there has absolutely nothing to do with it : )

Mike A

On 21 April 2014 21:14:48 Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:

This is only tangentially related to Ae, as I'm doing some TV spots, and need stock photos to bring in and do some animations to - the pseudo 3D effect.

I have a beef with the low-budget stock houses like Pond5, Shutterstock, BigStock, iStockPhoto, etc.:  Most of what they have is pure crap. Their search engines suck; returning hundreds of irrelevant results, and numerous duplicates, wasting my valuable time.

I know that you get what you pay for and if you want quality, you have to go to Getty, but my client doesn't have the budget to spend $1000 for each shot.

There may be some middle ground sources that I don't know about.

Can anybody recommend other sites, with useful photos that look like they came from real life or photojournalism, and not a bunch of hokey staged garbage with bad actors?



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