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Let me start by saying that I don’t hate stock photography. Stock photos have their place in marketing and advertising materials, and I’d by lying if I said that I’d never used stock photography in my work. However, I simply don’t understand why stock photography is used so frequently. Licensing and sourcing high quality photography is quick and easy, especially if you know the basics. Here’s how to go about it. How To Find The Photos You Need Flickr and Photobucket can be combined to form what might be the largest collections of photos in the world, and searching for …

Have you ever been to a stock photography site and found that a lot of the photography all looks the same?  Yeah, me too. To be sure, there is a place for the impossibly good looking people, with blindingly white smiles, shot in bright flat light.   They do sell well, but the microstock market is oversaturated with them, and not everybody is looking for the generic “stocky” look.  Many discerning designers are now searching for images that look more realistic.