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Stock Photography Sucks

informationrain.com — Corporate morons, please don't use crappy stock photography to advertise your products. That is all.

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  • CPops, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1"If there's a stock image ready to be used, why re-invent the wheel?"

    Those images are almost always incredibly corny.


    "And for a random employee with digital camera technique, 99% time it'd fail"

    From a technical perspective, it's definitely not going to be as good. But from the perspective of showing that there are real people behind some product, those less than perfect images are much better.

    If using people is deemed necessary, as mentioned, I would prefer hiring a professional photographer and making suitable unique imagery. If that's not an option, I'd prefer real photos over stock images of guys in business suits and women holding phones.
  • notouch, on 04/14/2008, -0/+1"If photos of people are deemed absolutely necessary to market a product, why not hire a professional photographer for a few hours? ...If that expense is somehow deemed excessive, a random employee with a cheap digital camera can produce images that are unique and provide a dose of humanity."
    Wrong and wrong. If there's a stock image ready to be used, why re-invent the wheel? Photographers would cost more, especially with the royalty of the final product, than purchasing royalty of a stock image.
    And for a random employee with digital camera technique, 99% time it'd fail, unless you have employees who has a good sense of design. Photography is not a simple point and shoot. Even with aid of photoshop, you still need to know basics on color, contrast, composition, to save a image. And not all photos can be magically transformed to great ad pieces, no matter how much it's been photoshopped.
    Stock photo do not suck, it's people doesn't know how to use them suck. Especially the ones use free stock photo only.

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