{"id":1574,"date":"2011-04-05T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=1574"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:17:38","slug":"603-unusable-stock-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/603-unusable-stock-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"#603 &#8220;Unusable stock photos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/603-unusable-stock-photos\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Brian Goldschmied\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1516244\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2Fuser1516244','Brian+Goldschmied')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian<\/a> sent me a link to some &#8220;<a title=\"unusable stock photos\" href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.com\/2011\/03\/adolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fpdnpulse.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fadolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html','Unusable+stock+photos')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fpdnpulse.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fadolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html','unusable+stock+photos')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unusable stock photos<\/a>&#8221; last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stock photos are photos shot by photographers for the purpose of editorial, commercial or other use and usually marketed through a <a title=\"stock photo agency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.agefotostock.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.agefotostock.com','stock+photo+agency')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stock agency<\/a>. The photographer usually spends a lot of time thinking about metaphors and building a photo around the theme.<\/p>\n<p>Back a few years when stock produced better $sales I spent much of my time creating photos that had potential for sales. Some had good success. Some never made it.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<a title=\"Unusable stock photos\" href=\"http:\/\/pdnpulse.com\/2011\/03\/adolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fpdnpulse.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fadolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html','Unusable+stock+photos')\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fpdnpulse.com%2F2011%2F03%2Fadolfa-peeling-potatoes-and-59-other-unusable-stock-photos.html','unusable+stock+photos')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unusable stock photos<\/a>&#8221; have problems! Technically most are ok. They are exposed ok and are in focus but they lack in other ways &#8211; what do YOU think?!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Brian!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stock photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/biplane3.jpg\" alt=\"Stock photo\" width=\"450\" height=\"317\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Nowell.com Stock photo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Brian sent me a link to some &#8220;unusable stock photos&#8221; last week. &#8220;What?!&#8221; Stock photos are photos shot by photographers for the purpose of editorial, commercial or other use and usually marketed through a stock agency. The photographer usually <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/05\/603-unusable-stock-photos\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2011%2F04%2F05%2F603-unusable-stock-photos%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[90,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}