Are Photographer Shooting What’s In Demand?

Posted on 7/12/2018 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

If the major stock distributors want to sell more pictures it might be a good idea to give photographers more information about the relative demand for certain subjects in terms of number of images licensed and revenue generated by images with certain keywords. If occurred to me that the fastest growing collection on Gettyimages.com is EyeEm. Currently there are 26,024,940 images in the Getty Creative collection and 4,620,578 or 18% of them have been supplied by EyeEm. A little less than two years ago EyeEM only had 256,152 image in the collection.

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Tibor Bognar Posted Jul 14, 2018
But most of EyeEm images are totally random snapshots with complete disregard of "traditional" values like composition, lighting, careful choice of subject matter, timing, etc. Why does Getty find them so valuable? While Imagebrief was active, one has often seen clients demanding that the images should NOT look like they were taken by professional photographers. Is professionalism really so outdated? Should we all sell our cameras?

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