JUOPHOTO OVERFLOW

syntheticpubes:

In 2005, Getty Images licensed 1.4 million preshot commercial photos. Last year, it licensed 22 million—and “all of the growth was through our user-generated business,” Mr. Klein said.

That is because amateurs are largely happy to be paid anything for their photos.…

But amateurs like Ms. Pruitt do not particularly care.

“I never followed any traditional photography rules only because I didn’t know of any—I never went to photography school, never took any classes,” she said. “People don’t know the rules, so they just shoot what they like—and other people like it, too.”

I always knew I was born about 20 years to late…

Hearts!

syntheticpubes:

Clayton Cubitt and Nikola Tamindzic speak the truth.

Do it for future knowledge. Do it for future curious creative people like yourself. Tools like Google Image and TinEye would be so much more effective if everyone who published an image would post the credits with it, so that it could be properly indexed.