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Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by thisjepisje »

tombrossman wrote: post #60

What are the terms and conditions you are providing these 'free' photos under please? You should consider it unlikely that a serious startup would use your photos based on 'genbit on HN said they were free - seems legit'. Also, have you considered submitting images to sites like unsplash.com or skitterphoto.com, which basically offer the same thing but with a CC0 license? And if it is just feedback you need there are…

This guy is offering to take photos because he likes taking photos and figures people might want one. I really don't see why you have to be such a negative nancy about this.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by thisjepisje »

Geee wrote: post #54
Throwaway1224 wrote: post #37

Hey I am making a web site where you can meet up with other people who have ebola. It's like a cross between Match.com and Meetup, but for people who actively have ebola. A good cover image could be key. Maybe a picture of an ebola or some kid playing with an ebola stuffed animal. Something that promotes togetherness. TIA.

Are you banking on Ebola getting widespread?

Opportunities are everywhere!

Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by tombrossman »

thisjepisje wrote: post #61
tombrossman wrote: post #60

What are the terms and conditions you are providing these 'free' photos under please? You should consider it unlikely that a serious startup would use your photos based on 'genbit on HN said they were free - seems legit'. Also, have you considered submitting images to sites like unsplash.com or skitterphoto.com, which basically offer the same thing but with a CC0 license? And if it is just feedback you need there are…

This guy is offering to take photos because he likes taking photos and figures people might want one. I really don't see why you have to be such a negative nancy about this.

He's offering photos which he presumably retains copyright for, to people wanting them for business use and not a personal collection or their kid's lemonade stand.

I raised a legitimate issue, offered realistic and superior alternatives, and wished OP good luck.

If this offended your sensibilities or came across as negative to you, I think you should re-read my comment and reconsider. Maybe we'll just agree to disagree.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

NateDad wrote: post #63

Don't offer your work for free. It devalues you and all other photographers. There's no "practice" you get from doing work for free for someone else that you couldn't get by doing work for yourself, and then offering up for sale. http://shouldiworkforfree.com/

Not this.

Like the OP wrote, photography is a hobby.

Charging for anything requires extra work. If the OP is an employee doing another sort of work, the extra work involved in charging could be enough to complete overwhelm any benefit from charging, unless the OP somehow won the lottery and made huge bucks (unlikely in the extreme).

Even if the OP is already working as an independent business owner, using their existing "charge people" infrastructure and tools for a non-core hobby could be somewhere be difficult and infeasible.

There are things that we do because we enjoy them, not because we have any vanity hope of ever making money from them. Getting our work in front of others allows for broader criticism, which can make us better; for attribution, which can lift our spirits (I did that); and for recognition, which can, sometimes, for some, make us money.

Let's stop this "never do anything for free" fetishism, shall we? As important as money is, it ain't everything.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by ricknew »

genbit wrote: post #47
ricknew wrote: post #5

How about various angles views of a tennis court that is no longer in much use as originally intended? Maybe no nets or deteriorating nets, lines barely there, the play of life on the court. Could include people using the court in unusual or usual ways. Or taking off from this and using your own ideas of seeing an athletic arena/field in different ways.

This is interesting project. I actually may need pictures like these too ) need to check local tennis courts, arenas.

Awesome, thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Anyone need a landing page photo for free?

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Post by genbit »

tombrossman wrote: post #60

What are the terms and conditions you are providing these 'free' photos under please? You should consider it unlikely that a serious startup would use your photos based on 'genbit on HN said they were free - seems legit'. Also, have you considered submitting images to sites like unsplash.com or skitterphoto.com, which basically offer the same thing but with a CC0 license? And if it is just feedback you need there are…

idea is to try to make photo by request, which I see as a nice exercise, otherwise I can About legal issues, I don't see problems there actually. Except model releases, if people are on the photo. But this is concerns to discuss over email. > really limiting and cannot last long thats an idea, I'm not going to make money with it and it's just an exercise and hobby.
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