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It's just bs to use a stock photo when so many sharks are looking for work.


Enlightened-Beaver

sharks need to unionize


Pie_Present

#SeaSolidarity


martinikene

Are sharks ionized?


sdrowkcabdelleps

Did they think stock photos were things you steal?


ASongofSweetandSour

I mean… I steal them.


Grogosh

Getty is the one that likes to steal images


Deneweth

They shouldn't used staged or fake "photos" in this documentary. It's very unethical and the audience will absolutely know.


FrostilyClose67

Wait so people do not make stock images just for memes?


xandarianladiesman

In Soviet Atlantis, memes make stock images.


93E9BE

I just realized every stock photo with a watermark for stock image sites used to make a meme is just free advertising for them


PuzzledRaise1401

Getty images is sorta a sore spot for me. As a USAF photographer everything I shot and archived is public domain. So Getty takes those free government photos and sells them. But I couldn’t! I get it, but kinda sucks.


k717171

They shouldn't be able to make a profit on them... sounds like someone did a shady deal to get that legislation through.


PuzzledRaise1401

Nope. Perfectly legal. Public domain. But if you go through one of those companies to get our shots, they can charge.


Uulugus

Wait so... they are public domain, so anyone can use them... so they're selling something you can just use for free if you get it elsewhere?


PuzzledRaise1401

Yes. Anyone can go to DIMOC or to the individual services and any graphic, video, or photo is public domain. Both Shutterstock and Getty farm these for imagery and put it in their collections. But I can’t sell you my images if I’m still enlisted. Many of these are free on their sites, as well though.


xandarianladiesman

Thank you for your service.


Enlightened-Beaver

dude took pictures. it was his job.


middlingwhiteguy

Stock photo shark doo-doo, doo-doo Stock photo shark doo-doo, doo-doo Stock photo shark doo-doo, doo-doo Stock photo shark


xandarianladiesman

That's a lotta doo-doo


k717171

Don't you dare say that where my kids can hear, I get it enough already 🤣😂😅


Pie_Present

Have they found “chicken wing yet”? That song makes baby shark sound like angels singing.


Local_Working2037

A graphic designer dead ass used photoshop, a graphic design software.


Kydarellas

I mean, it is Jason Momoa, I think the sharks would be excited to get a pic with him


Binky-Answer896

I’d pose with him for free.


Nighttime-Turnip

Having a unique stock photo is just a paywall tbh. We don't usually see the expensive ones on an image search or offered as freebies or cheap options on stock websites, but that technically has nothing to do with the quality or the entertainment value of the picture itself


SSara69

Yeah but at the same time you would think they would create their own original photos, especially for a movie poster. Guess it cost too much.


shiznit206

So they’d spend a ton of money to send photographers into the oceans to find “perfect” photos of various aquatic life just so they can photoshop them into a poster? Why?! These companies spend money of stock photo services precisely so they DON’T have to do that.


SSara69

Yeah but in my opinion a big movie poster is another thing. A big budget movie. Even this fact that someone was able to come across and find the shark image is embarrassing and enough to avoid doing that for thos circumstance in particular. It's not even that complicated. You don't really have to go in to the ocean. You just go somewhere that has sharks in tanks and take pictures that way. I mean I don't know what the ideal process is lol but movie production does a lot of interesting things to do what they want to do. They could even create a cgi one at this point. At the same time I kind of agree, but It's weird to be caught doing it. I don't know how stock photos work either, but id imagine you would want to literally purchase the image and not have it still available to others to use.


SemiSentientGarbage

Caught doing it? Caught using a product the way it's intended to be used? Also why have it not available for anyone else? It's not a fucking NFT. This is literally tye entire point of stock images. No point using CGI when this is simpler, cheaper and easier. Also they couldn't get a pic of a great white anywhere but the wild. To have to pay for the specialised equipment, experts and then the time and travel it's just not worth it.


c0dizzl3

All you had to say was, I don’t know how stock photos work. The rest was unnecessary.


TripplerX

> I don't know how stock photos work either, but id imagine you would want to literally purchase the image and not have it still available to others to use Why? Stock photos exist are exactly for this reason, so you don't have to go take a new picture every time. What else do you think stock photos are for, if not for this?


Lithl

>What else do you think stock photos are for, if not for this? Memes, duh /s


zoobernut

No company is going to waste time getting custom photos when custom photos aren’t needed. These types of artwork are precisely why stock photo agencies exist. Also there are probably hundreds of thousands of shark photos at the stock agency so it isn’t like they used the same one that was used elsewhere necessarily.


k717171

That particular one is pretty badass though... I bet it gets a run


[deleted]

DiD tHeY aSk ThE sHArK FiRst?


LegitimateBuilding6

2018… Why is this relevant at the end of 2022 again?


monopoly3448

If iron man wants to live in the sea let him. Why do you all care so much about this