Stock Photos

Say you’re an advertiser on a stock-photography site, looking for a shot of a woman to put in your new campaign. “If you search for something like ‘female workplace leader,’ you come up with bunch of images of women in short skirts and high heels Jessica Kirsh was looking for a way to help pay for college six years ago when she submitted her first photos to two microstock agencies. The income didn’t come quickly, and even though today she usually makes at least one sale daily from the 1,500 Vince Vaughn could be in the next PowerPoint presentation you see. To promote the upcoming movie “Unfinished Business,” Twentieth Century Fox and iStock by Getty Images have teamed up to create a series of stock images featuring cast members from the As editor of The Washington Post's leadership section, I've spent many hours editing and writing stories about women in the workplace. I've also spent nearly as much time searching for photographs to accompany those pieces. The stock photos tend to fall Most stock photography is terrible. Death to the Stock Photo is trying to change that. Contrary to their name, Death to the Stock Photo is indeed a fledging stock agency, but what makes them stand out is a fresh visual approach and a new way of thinking When you think stock photos, these days you likely think of crowd content web sites like iStockphoto or stock.xchng, rather than traditional, professionally sourced stock image companies like Getty Images (which actually owns iStockphoto) or Juperiterimages. .

Women featured in stock photos have busy, complicated lives. They're laughing alone with all kinds of salads, both with and without croutons. They're diversely inept at riding bikes. They fly into unpredictable hysterics in the presence of a scale. A truly surprising number of old stock photos feature cars parked next to private planes on runways. Here are some of them. Make sure your browser is prepared to handle a lot of luxury. All photos credit their respective manufacturers and culled by the Any blog too tiny for a photo budget no longer need fret. Getty Images, the world's largest photo provider, is letting people embed its stock images for free. The move is an abrupt change in business model for the photo service. Instead of relying on There are not many occasions when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes with money and red caviar on a white background. But there may well be one occasion when one will find oneself seeking an image of a cat in smart clothes .

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• stock photos Diamond Gem Texture 400 x 400 · 61 kB · jpeg
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stock photos Abstract Tree Designs | File Size: 400 x 400 · 63 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Ribbon Border Clip Art | File Size: 354 x 450 · 26 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Christmas Lights Border | File Size: 350 x 450 · 28 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Royalty Free Stock Photography | File Size: 250 x 207 · 17 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Stock Market Bull and Bear | File Size: 400 x 400 · 54 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos African Elephant | File Size: 400 x 300 · 36 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Cartoon Baby Walking | File Size: 400 x 440 · 47 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Mini Computer | File Size: 360 x 235 · 24 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Diamond Gem Texture | File Size: 400 x 400 · 61 kB · jpeg Download

stock photos Singing Christmas Carols | File Size: 400 x 339 · 59 kB · jpeg Download