Stock Photography Online – a world where pigs fly
I remember the early 90s when my brother John called me one day and explained that he had found a niche in digitally manipulated photography. He said he was about to do a lot of money with it, but could not find any good help. He knew he had been in the computer and thought maybe he could get to work for him helping to digitally manipulate photographs.
John was a professional photographer, mainly doing stock photography, and had discovered a new software called Adobe Photoshop. John found he could use Photoshop to fix problems with the photos taken in a photo shoot expensive than it should have been re-shot. He also discovered I could use the software to create pictures that could not be executed in real life. This was a great thing for your stock photography business.
At the time I had just had a business fail, and I was supporting my family as a press operator for injection molding, making about minimum wage work the night shift. John lived in San Francisco at the time and his studio was located where AT & T Stadium is now. I lived in Stockton California, an hour and a half trip in each direction.
Well John I offered $ 50.00 per hour to come to work for him in his studio in San Francisco, and asked what hour I wanted to report to work in the morning!
Over the next five years I worked for my brother doing digital manipulation photography, digital retouching, and a lot of digital art and photography for advertising agencies. I remember one of my first projects was to put a heron's wings on a pig a picture of flying pigs.
Another time I brought my pet iguana three feet long to the studio and photographed it. In those days film was used, and after developing the film would use a drum scanner to scan your photo, and then use Photoshop or live images to manipulate photos. We turned the iguana in a fire-breathing dragon.
A job we did for Mother Jones magazine Madame Chiang involved replacing Kai-shek head with Hillary Clinton's head on a photo of Madame Chiang Kai-shek in the chat with Eleanor Roosevelt in the Rose Garden at the White House. He told us later that Hillary had framed and put on his desk. We also heard that she was confused at first because it does not recognize the team that was in the photo. Go figure.
We specialized in the "conceptual stock photography, image production, such as trees of money, time flies – (a clock with wings) an image of the Earth in space but currency, dollar bills flying out the window, and that sort of thing. We also did photo-shoots of the Fortune 500 and used digital techniques to produce images of advertising. John acquired an incredible reputation for producing the best stock photography of this kind, and all advertising agencies knew well. He was a great success. Created a range of images he called "Animal Antics" with images of animals doing weird things like skateboarding and biking. The images were the basis for a highly successful line of greeting cards.
I finally got tired of switching and to sit at a computer all day with an art-director tells me what to do. I became an inventor, and John capitalized well in their pioneering venture into stock photography, digital, digital manipulation and amusing photos of animals.
At that time John was the first and for a time-only values photographer using digital manipulation to produce photos. There was no Internet, and photography, was or less limited to advertising agencies with big budgets.
In those days sold stock photography by Tony Stone Images, and the stock market. Now Tony Stone is gone as is the Securities and Getty Images and the number of other large securities dealers have replaced them. free photography rights, the widespread use of digital manipulation, and the Internet are changing the face of the industry. Times have changed and John recently told me that the future of stock photography, was online.
Mom and Pop business is on the Internet to find pictures of their newsletters, advertising in both online and printed brochures, exhibition stands, etc. Feel the future of stock photography online is aimed at the masses with low-cost photo stock. There a huge market for all types of photos for everything from pictures of the websites photos to brochures, to printed images of merchandise such as mugs and baseball caps. The Most people now looking for stock photos do not even know what a photograph. Looking for "pictures of pigs" or "images of sharks."
To take advantage of this booming market for new versions of photos, photographer next day (and old too) needs to work online where it can be found and purchased.
Once again John is at the forefront of their field. John has launched a new website online to cope with the flourishing of small businesses in the stock market photos. Somewhere on his website there are pictures of fire-breathing dragons in a world where pigs fly in effect.
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Visit John’s new website for funny pictures and great stock photos Stock Photography Online Fine art prints and printed merchandise also available at his site.
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