Return-Path: Received: from homiemail-a82.g.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.129] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5441635 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 22 Apr 2014 02:38:07 +0200 Received: from homiemail-a82.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a82.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542D9282065 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:40:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=motoxpress.com; h=from :content-type:message-id:mime-version:subject:date:references:to :in-reply-to; s=motoxpress.com; bh=rVctRYnbQN5S76ztSXcQo4nflpU=; b=a8h8eVugO50GsGxrvjQF8YaED9XuulNFnIcANmvLl/VVLKh9gRKyS42arEckD ZA9fhcFmpkEILpuMWHG8GSa7jg0GDr1tQeq8CVSAm1c7Vh86kUdDjcv3R0RWsKpx itA3MkbhOqUVKW7LtmXnAbbPJdvuuoVVbZKf+oP9z8E4uQ= Received: from [10.0.1.32] (c-76-23-9-224.hsd1.ut.comcast.net [76.23.9.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: george.loch@fgmt.org) by homiemail-a82.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE280282061 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:40:09 -0700 (PDT) From: George Loch Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3690DB46-C91B-418B-86D2-FF9B5451938D" Message-Id: <5FAC0262-0B32-40FD-A6A3-70BA773ED0B3@motoxpress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 $1874$) Subject: Re: [AE] stock photo sites Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:40:02 -0600 References: To: After Effects Mail List In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) --Apple-Mail=_3690DB46-C91B-418B-86D2-FF9B5451938D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Also, 500px.com now offers some stock images. $200 a pop is not cheap = but, less than Getty. -gl On Apr 21, 2014, at 2:14 PM, 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > There may be some middle ground sources that I don't know about. >=20 > 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? >=20 >=20 >=20 > . --Apple-Mail=_3690DB46-C91B-418B-86D2-FF9B5451938D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Also, = 500px.com now offers some stock images. = $200 a pop is not cheap but, less than = Getty.

-gl

On Apr = 21, 2014, at 2:14 PM, 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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