Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> >wrote: >> >> And, as I mentioned earlier, flickr is the favorite hunting grounds of art >> directors the world over. Hell, I've even helped some of them hunt when we >> were pressed for time. Literally tens of thousands of comp ads have been >> built with ripped flickr pics. That offends some, since the pic is rarely >> purchased, but instead is reshot in a slightly different manner by a >> photographer who gets paid to dollar. > >I don't understand how this makes flickr a "bad place". I look all >over the place for inspiration too, and use temporary images when >brainstorming or storyboarding which I then go out and shoot to suit >my own creative bent every so often. Flickr has a bazillion amateur >photos on it, what better place to find things that are "like what you >might want" for brainstorming?
I don't see this as a problem either. I do similar things when working on design projects all the time: Browse for specific types of images, experiment with how they work in a particular design, when I get something that seems close I go out and shoot the final images myself. This saves a lot of time. (I use Google image search rather than Flickr, but it's the same principle.) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
