Where do you find your photos?
Hey all!
Just a quick question for you all! I'm sure many of you are writing some Street Articles just like I am, and was wondering: Where do you find your exclusive-licensed photos for your articles?
I've found great stock photos on a number of stock photo websites like iStockPhoto and sxc.hu, but if you read their license, it's a non-exclusive license, not the exclusive license that Street Articles requires, so I'm not able to use photos from those sites.
Of course, I can take my own photos, if I happen to have access to the subject matter I'm trying to take a picture of, but sometimes I don't, so that's not always an option.
So how do you all get your exclusive license photos for your Street Articles? I'd love to know!
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So glad I found this. I was going to ask the same question and all you knowledgeable people have shed light on the subject at hand. Much appreciated.
I buy them from stock photo companies for the most part, in large batches of credits to save money. But there are royalty-free ones you can find for nothing, as well! Try Stock Exchange, the best free photo site I've found: http://www.sxc.hu/
I got tired of the non exclusive license so I went down to Staples and got a box of 950.000 images that you can use online some of them are a little outdated but there are still a lot of pics to use.
Interesting, was this box a CD/were they digital? Also were they sorted well - and how much did it cost? Might be a good way to go if I can't find anything on other sites.
It is a box of 6 cd disks and they got a good search box. I think the box cost $15 it has definitely been worth it + it saves a lot of time :)
sxc.hu sometimes asks you to notify the owner of the photo (they supply the email address). I imagine it's out of courtesy, or to ask permission to use the photo. I've written and never get a reply, sometimes I just go ahead and use the photo for an article. When it comes to my website, I just purchase from iStock. So far, it's been fine.
Have you ever tried DotGov Watch Photo Search? I wanted to give
you the link here, but it won't let me. If you're interested I can PM it to you. You can search thousands of images in public domain and they've been released by the US government.
I'll try again www.dotgovwatch.com/?/atchives/8-The Best-Copyright-Free-Photo-Libraries.html
You're welcome, Telmari. If you want an overview and what the icons mean, take a look here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Rich.
Flickr is a free source for non-commercial purposes as long as you're happy to include an attribution. Click on the advanced search and tick the box for "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content". Rich.
Wow, awesome. That's great to know. I guess I'm always a little worried about misinterpreting licensing on these things - it's great to have that clarification. Thanks again!
If you're unsure you can always email the website and ask them about it. Tell them how you plan on using the graphic and whether or not that falls in line with the licensing terms.
That's a good point - I actually tried this with Street Articles, to see whether using stock photos that I have rights/a license to were valid, but I haven't heard back from them quite yet. But otherwise, yeah - I have actually been successful at this with affiliate merchants - asking them if I can use some of their additional photos to better promote products on my site, and gotten good response that way.
You can use images in Street articles both from iStockphoto and sxc hu. You can find more places to get images if you go to the training area and search images for your websites. I created a tutorial a few weeks back and if you also look at the other comments you will see other places suggested by members. All those mentioned can be used for Street Articles
Best wishes
Beverley
Thanks Beverley! Great points - I didn't consider all those extra sources - that will definitely make finding good images a lot easier! Super helpful! :)
Some of them I'll take myself. Others I have just used iStockphoto.
I think street articles just wants the articles to be exclusive content. The images you just need to have the rights/license to.
Thanks Thomas! Hmm, that's good to know. My articles definitely are exclusive, hand-written content... so hopefully using licensed photos, even if they're not exclusive is good enough for SA.
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I produced a training resource on where you can get image https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/where-to-find-images-for-your-website
If you look at some of the comments below my resource it will tell you about some more places as well, If you look at the photos in Street Articles you will see the same photo from different people!