The World's Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a Fake
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#2Here's a video with the photographer about the image:
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#4> We’re still making sales. It’s approaching $1 million. I get about 40 percent of that. It put my kids through college.
Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?
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#5> We’re still making sales. It’s approaching $1 million. I get about 40 percent of that. It put my kids through college. Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?
It started selling way before digital photography, that could explain a lot of it.
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#7> We’re still making sales. It’s approaching $1 million. I get about 40 percent of that. It put my kids through college. Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?
It started selling way before digital photography, that could explain a lot of it.
Just found another article which describes other popular stock photos that continue to sell and most of them are older, pre-digital photos as well.
>The record for a single sale, he says, was about $35,000. “It still brings in some hefty money,” he says. [1]
[1] http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Stock-Photos-That-Ke-1294....
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#8I never saw that image before, and it's obviously fake. You just can't see through that much seawater.
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#9"Fake" is a little strong. As he says at the end of the article, you couldn't capture an image like that with a single photograph. He strove for accuracy, but who knows how close he got - the article doesn't go into that. His clients thought it was realistic enough and evocative enough to give him $1m.
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#10I never saw that image before, and it's obviously fake. You just can't see through that much seawater.
And the bottom of such a huge iceberg can't possible be as well lit as if the sun was hitting it from below. (And of course it looks like that because it's an above water shot, flipped.)