Posted

Sep 7th 2008

Mood

Annoyed

Okay so I look through sheezy art for some stock faces/eye shots (sorta more face than eye) and nothing decent (barely anything in the search) as expected so I go check DA. I search for over an hour, and anything halfway decent says "don't use outside of DA". What happen to all the good stock? I mean seriously, all you get are people who honestly shouldn't be posing for stock, pictures that are listed as stock that honestly couldn't be plausibly used for anything, and TONS and TONS of blurry pictures. One actually really annoyed me. It would have been PERFECT had it not given the impression of having double vision.

Some notes about stock:
1) USE A FRICKIN TRIPOD! Your hands, no matter what you think, are NOT that steady.

2) Use a decent camera! If all you have are pictures from cheap little disposable cameras, don't bother posting them.

3) While a few blemishes are easy enough to remove, if you are freaking ugly don't bother posting. Seriously, it won't help your self esteem by putting them up when NOBODY WANTS TO USE THEM. Why do you think I don't post my butt ugly face all over?

4) You wearing all sorts of weird shit on your face does not make for good stock. It's one thing for some gems or whatever, but things like black face paint makes no sense. First off it limits the usefulness of the picture to only people who need pictures of people with black pain on their faces, second off anyone worth their salt when it comes to using the stock can add the black paint to your face if they need it there.

5) Just because you don't know what to do with a picture does not make it stock. Honestly, what is somebody going to do with a picture of you wearing a hoody standing outside on a windy day with a corn dog vendor in the background?

6) Post it in a decent resolution! People using stock like a nice big picture to work with so they can edit with high detail.

7) If it's grainy, fuzzy, or blurry don't post it. A bit could be fixable, but in the end I personally am going to pass up your stock if it means that much more work to do.

Look, I know people providing stock are doing a wonderful thing by doing so, and I'm very grateful for all the stock I've used. My point is simply that not every photo makes good stock and there are people cluttering up any decent stock searches with their utterly useless crap.