Key Stock

With only a slight change of topic, what do you think of these images for stock? I know Neil has a lensbaby shot of a bunch of keys which I hope he'll share with us as a comparison. My shot images were aimed at Gallo, and/or alamy usage. I think Neil's shot, with the lensbaby is aimed at something like Trevillion or ArcAngel (very different stylistic content to Gallo).

On a different note, I was reading a web posting the other day of a south African photographer who had set up an expensive shoot (the resultant images were good) specifically to send the images to shutterstock. I wanted to scream and throttle the man! Why would any sane individual go to that expense and time to post their images to a site where they will receive a fraction of the income that they would have from a library like Gallo, Alamy, or any other small library. the photographer in question is a professional and the calibre of the images was well above what is required for most libraries. Go figure. Out of interest, if you want to supply images to some libraries, Photographers direct is the key library in this case, they actually refuse to accept submissions if you supply micro's like shutterstock with imagery. Food for thought?

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