Agreed, and the fact that almost anyone can take a nice looking picture now a days. I have a very nice camera I use to take pictures of my jobs for my website, I don't know 90% of what the camera can do but when I set it to Auto it takes beautiful photos. Gone are the days where the really nice photos required a professional photag who took his pictures and then went home and had to develop his film. Heck, even some of the phones now take beautiful pictures.
photographers worldwide would cringe after reading this, kinda like saying, "hey that's a nice set of pots and pans you have there, I bet your food is really good!"
I hear you, but for the small business website you can now take most pictures you need yourself or get them reasonably from ethical sites like Pond5 and spend only a few bucks.
I should have been more specific, there is no way that most of the pictures I see Getty sending the letters over are worth the 400 - 1200 dollars Getty asks, gone are the days, in my opinion at least, when these images were actually worth that because of everything involved to produce the picture. Getty still thinks they are operating in that world and it's time for them to come out of the dark room and join the rest of us.
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