Comments on: When to Say No to Stock Photos http://www.marketinginprogress.com/2009/10/26/when-to-say-no-to-stock-photos/ Marketing Ideas, Marketing Tips Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:50:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brett http://www.marketinginprogress.com/2009/10/26/when-to-say-no-to-stock-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-1857 Brett Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:56:56 +0000 http://www.marketinginprogress.com/?p=1234#comment-1857 So true on the cost of photography. It can be outrageous. And I completely agree on stock photos being great when people aren't involved. I always think it's funny some of the conversation that takes place when selecting images for a home page, etc. (when execs get involved). You get perfect, multi-cultural, young models pitching a product to, the execs hope, everyone. So true on the cost of photography. It can be outrageous. And I completely agree on stock photos being great when people aren’t involved.

I always think it’s funny some of the conversation that takes place when selecting images for a home page, etc. (when execs get involved). You get perfect, multi-cultural, young models pitching a product to, the execs hope, everyone.

]]> By: Chris http://www.marketinginprogress.com/2009/10/26/when-to-say-no-to-stock-photos/comment-page-1/#comment-1856 Chris Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:24:20 +0000 http://www.marketinginprogress.com/?p=1234#comment-1856 Good points. It is comical how utterly obvious Stock photos are, especially if they are of people. The smiling, happy people huddling around a laptop - blech! Stock photos are better, I think, for more conceptual or abstract shots - pictures of factories or airplanes or congested highways - or for specific images like Christmas trees. The people shots are almost always too posed. That said, the low cost of stock photography is often too much to pass up. Being a good steward of my clients' budgets, I often can't in good conscience order up a $5000 to $10,000 photo shoot when such a cheap and "good enough" alternative exists. Good points. It is comical how utterly obvious Stock photos are, especially if they are of people. The smiling, happy people huddling around a laptop – blech! Stock photos are better, I think, for more conceptual or abstract shots – pictures of factories or airplanes or congested highways – or for specific images like Christmas trees. The people shots are almost always too posed.

That said, the low cost of stock photography is often too much to pass up. Being a good steward of my clients’ budgets, I often can’t in good conscience order up a $5000 to $10,000 photo shoot when such a cheap and “good enough” alternative exists.

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