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People who sell photos to sites

  • 28-03-2009 5:15pm
    #1
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭


    Well as i've submitted photos to a road racing website,I was afraid to submit photo's which i didn't like,Not sharp enough,slightly out of focus,Dull colours etc etc.(only the ones i was being paid for)

    But after browsing other website of the same type,Rally,motorcross,Motorcycle racing the quaility of some shots is quite scary..I look at them and know that they can't be the photographers best image and then it raises the question why would they do this?

    They're submitting photos to a site which they are getting paid for and the photos are soft,Out of focus and blurry(shutter is too slow for image type)

    It just seems crazy to me cause you're making a bad name for yourself by submitting bad images yet the site still uses them..

    Anybody have any opinion on this


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  • #2
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    Yup, non photographers haven't a fecking clue when it comes to photography. As far as they're concerned, it doesn't matter if you were using a 1DmkIII with 4 grand of lenses, or a 10 quid throw away film camera, so long as they have pictures. Most of them Id say haven't even the first idea of how to know if the image is slightly soft. They will just like the look of it no matter... and use that to represent their site..

    Think of bebo/facebook/etc - all photos on nights out, crappy compacts with flash ruining them(you know what i mean) most of the time. Everyone still loves them. Seems unless you know what you're doing, you wont care all that much.


  • #3
    Paulw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    It would generally depend on what the client wants. Some sites want a particular number of images. So, if you don't have 5 brilliant images, you pick your best to make up the number, even if these are soft.

    Of course, some people just submit anything, just to see their name online, beside a photo. "Isn't it great, my image is being used on X website".

    Quality can go down, while the quantity of images posted on the topic goes up.

    Many of these people are very much hobby photographers, and don't consider it ever being anything more than that.


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