Without Prejudice

[Rob C]

Stock photography IS being ruined by amateurs, for sure. It's over as a money-making business, since the number of people willing to spend $100s of dollars to make a picture they will sell for pennies appears to be infinite.

This doesn't mean they're doing bad work. There's stuff you can buy for a dollar on any microstock site that is truly excellent work.

Capitalism is hard at work here, stock photography shouldn't cost anything.

It's a confused world. Capitalists have taken over the agencies all right, but they also seem determined to chase one another to the death by making less and less for each picture they shift.

I agree that pro/am isn't any dependable distinction for marking out quality in all photo genres.

Rob C

[Rob C]

Still walking every day after lunch, even if it tempts indigestion. Anyway, instead of indigestion I might have caught one of 2042's classics today, which is a neat trick if you think about it.

As it isn't a current classic, and as the new classic section of LuLa's best left classic, I include it here instead.

So much work and so little reward; it must be love.

;-)

Rob C

[StevenB]

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Still walking every day after lunch, even if it tempts indigestion. Anyway, instead of indigestion I might have caught one of 2042's classics today, which is a neat trick if you think about it.

As it isn't a current classic, and as the new classic section of LuLa's best left classic, I include it here instead.

So much work and so little reward; it must be love.

;-)

Rob C

OK, Rob, let's you and I check back in thirty years to see if Chris or Mark or Michael (or their grandchildren) have moved this image over to the "Classics" forum.

It may not be a classic yet, but most Porsches are still pretty classy, even without tail fins.

[Rob C]

Eric, I know that you probably don't subscribe to a common fishy heritage, but fins maketh the 50s classic. Even with sports cars: the Jag D-Type had a huge one right in the middle of it's rear end. (I had to rewrite that last sentence twice.)

I'm not sure I'd want to be back here in thirty years; I'm finding the current world isn't as good as the old one, so heaven knows how I'd feel in an even newer one. I sympathise with My Rip Van W. I'm sure if I did return, and even mentioned Kodachrome, that I'd be instantly locked away as a reactionary subversive or something as out of character as that.

Imagine arriving to discover rap being considered the new musical classic... enough to drive you back whence you came at top speed.

However, I could enjoy an endless belt system that ran from 1954 to 1984 over and over and over... not a musical one, a life one.

Rob C

[WalterEG]

stock photography shouldn't cost anything.

How outrageously preposterous.

[armand]

In Miami

[WalterEG]

Out into the world to test a Nikkor-T *ED 500mm on the Linhof MT V.

[Rob C]

Walter, this is obviously part of a survey to evaluate the number of deaths from snake and spider venom?

Always found a paradox at the heart of still and life.

;-)

Rob C

[amolitor]

How outrageously preposterous.

It's just supply and demand! When the supply is infinite, the cost goes to zero. Unless yer some kind of COMMUNIST!

[WalterEG]

Unless yer some kind of COMMUNIST!

It is rude to shout.

W

[WalterEG]

Always found a paradox at the heart of still and life.

;-)

Rob C

Of course, Roland Barthes maintained that a corpse is a living representation of a dead thing.

Still life it is.  Still!

[amolitor]

It is rude to shout.

I apologize, that was in jest. I hope that was obvious, but perhaps it was not.

[Dahlmann]

Took this one today early in the morning.
a cup of coffee and tethered capture..=)




/Dahlmann

[RobbieV]

How outrageously preposterous.

www.sxc.hu

Some people want to contribute to the free-ness of the Internet.

Yes, there are people willing to work for pennies, but I think some points are being missed. The Internet has created a movement where open-source technology and information is flowing and vibrant. It is in a similar manner that some of these stock photography sites are created. Some people just want to contribute, to share (for free) and to give.

I don't think it's a bad thing, necessarily. SXC.hu is but one of the free stock photography websites that features user-submitted work. You can instantly tell by the quality of the work, especially compared to the advertisements featuring paid work.

[Rob C]

Daniel, that's one bad tempered little mother; look at his eyes!

Rob C

[amolitor]

Always remember: Birds are basically small dinosaurs.

[32BT]

Daniel, that's one bad tempered little mother; look at his eyes!

Angry Bird, straight from the game

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Took this one today early in the morning.
a cup of coffee and tethered capture..=)




/Dahlmann

Love it!

[AWeil]

Dahlmann, did you get her to sign the model release form? One proud bird!
Angela