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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