I decided to blog about this because I’ve been researching about this for sometime now. I suppose one of the reasons to justify the amount of money photographers spend on their gear, would be to get some of that money back either by having someone pay for their photographic skills or…pay for their photos which would otherwise be doing absolutely nothing but taking up space on their harddrives. Which brings me to stock photography.

On looking at some of the stock agencies online, I can’t help but think…”Do people actually enjoy taking such pictures??”. Every single picture is so perfect. Pictures with people in are so posed and immaculate from their perfect blue skies to their shiny perfect white teeth. I couldn’t help but feel a sense of extreme lack of inspiration and creativity that were nonexistent in these shots. But…that’s how photographers make money! Stock Photography. Extremely boring. Stock Photography.

I can’t see myself spending all my time perfecting a shot I didn’t-wanna-take-but-had-to-just-for-the-sake-of-it so I decided to see just how stringent their review/critique process was. I decided to try Shutterstock first. I came home last night and put together 10 images which I felt would meet Shutterstock criteria. Most of my best work is in portraiture so far but due to the whole model release issue surrounding those, I had no choice but to submit any photos which I thought were not too bad and had no recognisable person in it. It’s been 24 hours since I submitted them.

Will update on the result in my next post. Stay tuned!