Stock photography is always unrealistic but “just so.”
I’ve come to prefer it this way because:
- no client will complain about a photo of good looking people posed unrealistically
- no client wants their marketing collateral to use people who look like their customers really do
Stock photography’s mix of fantasy and the mundane is an art form. So is picking it.
You should hear some of our debates. Three ‘different’ images of 3 corporate people staring a computer screen. One person prefers the one where the man on the left has his arm pointing at the screen. The other feels he looks too domineering. One person likes the smile of the woman. Another finds the smile creepy.
You are correct when you say picking amongst the mundane is an art form.
Hilarious Trevor!! I almost missed this – I am having serious spam overload in my comments!