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Originally Posted by Ffred
That's if you think of your images as holiday snaps. When you start making contacts with your photos and they find out that they're also available on stocks for $1 apiece, you lose all your credibility. There are people who have lost real sales because of that.
Taking it from another point of view, are your photos just something you do in passing during your vacation with your cellphone or something you invest time, research and a significant piece of your life in (never mind the money) ? If it's the latter, is your soul worth a few dollars ? Making money on stock sites is like making money with Second Life. Lots of people talk about it but it almost never happens. Mostly it's a full time job for pretty much no return.
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And there's a strong argument to made that really everyone loses, because instead of getting GOOD high quality images that are PERFECT for their situation, the availability of mediocre sorta okay pictures leads people to choose those instead. So instead of having people using the exact right images, they are using generic images dozens of other people have used that kinda fit.
Remember when it was cool and trendy to put clip art into your presentations because it showed you were cutting edge? Notice how now describing something as clip art is an insult? The same thing is already happening with stock photography. A place using stock photography is a place that isn't putting the money into their image that their image deserves. Or rather, I should say, they are getting exactly the quality they feel their image deserves.