Comments on: Oh my stock, photos that suck

By: James Bond

James Bond — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:36:37 +0000

LOL. I found your this website because I myself was thinking about making a blog like this. I have scouring the web for cheesy corporate photos just like the ones you posted.

It’s always hilarious when I find two different companies with the same “collaboration photo” – that’s happened to me twice so far.

What’s really annoying is using the word “Solutions” on their website headers. Why can’t they just call it ‘products’ or ’services’? LAME!!!!

By: Loloy Daemonic

Loloy Daemonic — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:58:25 +0000

Those web-hosting vendors who use irresponsible stock photographs easily irritate me and do not gain me as a customer.

You will note that the most sensible and most successful web-hosters out there apply only a very prudent amount of stock photography on their selling points.

Professional or not, I’d always prefer real photographs when marketing your own team.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:50:00 +0000

The Collaboration and The Corporate Team are definitely the worst. They make me cringe more often than anything else when browsing stock photo sites. It’s unfortunate this style is so prolific!

By: Free Online Store

Free Online Store — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:36:47 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for this article, I don’t personly like photos like this if i am honest. Quite simply because they all the same, asin you know what they are trying to achieve from it and there is no originality in it.

Anyway thanks again.
Richard.

By: Регистрация товарного знака

Регистрация товарного знака — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:17:06 +0000

Whenever I see a site with photos like this, I know it’s a dodgy one-man company, trying to appear professional.

By: jestep

jestep — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:31:38 +0000

I have entire sub-classes of “lifestyle stock photography. There’s the Baby Toss, Jumping Idiots, Odd Looking Eastern Europeans etc.

I’ll shoot for round 2 of bad stock photos, and these are some great ones.

By: Jeff Lewis

Jeff Lewis — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:59:41 +0000

I have entire sub-classes of “lifestyle stock photography. There’s the Baby Toss, Jumping Idiots, Odd Looking Eastern Europeans etc.

By: Mr Speaker

Mr Speaker — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:10:10 +0000

Freakin’ excellent – and i agree with your suggestions 100%… I started looking up stock photo stuff after reading this excellent (and relevant, promise!) argument against them: http://rawstylus.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/9things/ (the long comment by “bruno”). And after this awesome stock photo photo site: http://stutterstock.wordpress.com/

By: devx

devx — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:57:13 +0000

hahahahaha. I too am guilty of using stock images! But sometimes as a web designer, we don’t have much choice, since some of our smaller clients provide us with really low quality images. And clients seem to love this type of images, as (in their opinion) it makes them look profesional!

By: James Leicester

James Leicester — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:54:40 +0000

Jestep, great blog! I’ve never actually stopped and looked at stock photography in the way you have mentioned. With your annotations for each photograph, it is easy to see how potential customers could make assumptions about a web-site.

I’ve just made a recruitment agency web-site, that is riddled with Stock Photography, now I feel ashamed!

James.