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The stock photo galleries are filling up with some really high-quality, high resolution stock these days - a far cry from the tiny grainy jpegs of a few years ago. Brilliant! However....
... the amount of actually USEFUL stock is still a bit low. So here is my wishlist/plea to stockers (that is, people who take photos specifically for stock, not stock that is a byproduct of something else)
1) Variety: if you take 200 photos in a shoot, don't post all 200 of them! Pick the 3-5 best ones, and just post them.
2) Do Something: pulling Vogue model-poses is ok for the occasional shot, but next-to-useless from an artists point of view. So don't just stand there, hands poised, gazing into the distance with a pout - do something! Grab a broom and start sweeping. Act like you're falling off a bicycle (real or imaginary). Grab a phone and talk on it while making various faces (happy, sad, concerned, disgusted). Grab a hairbrush and do your hair. Clean your teeth. Flip pancakes. Concentrate on your next chess move. Slouch on the couch in front of the tv, remote in hand. You know, NORMAL stuff. Everyday stuff. That is what is most useful to an artist. It fires the artistic imagination. Sure, posing in a floaty gown in a field of flowers is ok for the occasional manip, but there's only so many ways you can depict someone posing in a floaty gown in a field of flowers.
3) Just post the original, out-of-camera jpeg, at the highest rez you can (without being raw). 2000x2000 or similar. Don't pre-cutout, or remove backgrounds, or "neatimage" skin, or any of that other stuff. Let the manipulator do that. (For the sketch artist, it's kind-of hard to make out hairs or muscle tone if the skin has been blurred to blankness).
That's it, simple things. You don't need to travel to exotic locations, buy expensive gowns or suits of armour - the artist can provide those
Just basic shots of people being people, doing people stuff, is what is most useful to learners/sketchers/cartoonists etc. And there are some fantastic stockers doing just that on here, kudos to all of you for the time and effort that goes into providing these for free. They're just... not the majority, let's say. But they can be! With a little thought.Just my 2c. Don't attack me, because it's a waste of yours and my time and energy, when we could be doing better things
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