stock photography
Artgrid is a stock footage service offering up to 8K raw videos
Apr 8, 2019
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Following the recent announcement, Artlist has launched a full-featured beta version of its stock footage service Artgrid. It promises to “reinvent stock footage,” offering up…
Artlist plans to reinvent the stock footage game with new Artgrid service offering up to 8K RAW video
Jan 29, 2019
John Aldred
When you can’t shoot it yourself, finding footage to add a little something to your video can be difficult or expensive. Popular royalty-free music subscription…
This photographer uploaded a photo to a royalty-free stock site only to find it on over 500,000 Walmart products
Dec 24, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Canadian photographer and filmmaker Michael Stemm recently sold an image through Shutterstock, earning $1.88. Little did he know that it would end up on Walmart…
Adobe is killing off Fotolia for Adobe Stock
Nov 6, 2018
John Aldred
Stock photography website Fotolia is coming to an end. After Fotolia was acquired by Adobe, Adobe Stock was launched in June 2015, with its core asset…
How a model release turned an author into the poster child for…everything
Aug 4, 2018
Allen Murabayashi
While a university student, author Shubnum Khan signed a model release in exchange for professional portraits as a part of a project by photographer XX…
Starting today, 500px no longer have a Creative Commons license option
Jul 1, 2018
Udi Tirosh
Remember that a month ago image sharing platform 500px announced that they will shut their marketplace down? A closer look at the announcement by Redditor Ricky_Lee_Hasselhoff…
The girl from the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme is always totally shocked
Jun 27, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
There’s hardly anyone who hasn’t seen the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme in some of its variants. Photographer Antonio Guillem captured the same model many times, and…
Photographer creates dreamy and surreal photo manipulations using stock images
Jun 25, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
Photo manipulation lets you create all sorts of imaginary worlds and situations and let your creativity go wild. Justin Peters is a young digital artist…
In Poland, you can buy Shutterstock mixers
Jun 8, 2018
Dunja Đuđić Kalinin
In a Polish discount supermarket Biedronka someone recently noticed this stock photography fail. The store sells a line of hand mixers that come in a…
Do not submit user generated content to brands or marketers – know your rights
Jun 2, 2018
JP Danko
Brands and marketers are increasingly reaching out to social media users for “user generated content” (UGC). Usually, you will receive a friendly request from the…