These guys just popped up on my radar yesterday. I ran a few quick searches that returned results that seemed superior to iStock, and the price is super-cheap.

http://www.dollarphotoclub.com/

Not sure if helpful.

Brian

------ Original Message ------

From: "Warren Heaton" <warrenheaton@me.com>

To: "After Effects Mail List" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

Sent: 4/22/2014 1:44:09 PM

Subject: Re: [AE] stock photo sites

Did these get mentioned yet?

www.artbeats.com

www.footagefirm.com

 

It might be worth doing a web image search with "Creative Commons-licensed content" in the text string.

 

Jim, do you know if you need exclusive use of the stock photos (typically a much higher price)?  Just curious.

 

 

 

-Warren

 

 

 

 

 

From: George Loch <george@motoxpress.com>
Reply-To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Monday, April 21, 2014 5:40 PM
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: Re: [AE] stock photo sites

 

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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