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Home » Uncategorized » Buyers Seeking! Call for Photos!

Buyers Seeking! Call for Photos!

Posted by: Allen Murabayashi    Posted date: April 1, 2008  |  9 Comments
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Due to overwhelming response from the photographic community to our calls for content, we are issuing this urgent call for specific areas where our collection is deficient. This request is based on our extensive research conducted in March 2008 with advertising agencies, publications, graphic designers, magicians and Canadians.

1. Chuck Mangione
There’s been a surprising uptick in the demand for Chuck Mangione photos — particularly action photos where his face is obscured by the bell of his flugelhorn, and where he playing a Rhodes electronic piano (Mk II circa 1979). There is a high probability of receiving an Editor’s Choice designation if Mr. Mangione is playing “Feels so Good” in the photo. Please classify these in the News+ Chuck Mangione subcategory.

2. Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan wearing panties
Any shots where their panties are clearly visible, instead of the run-of-the-mill no panties shots, are in constant demand by entertainment outlets.

3. Ugly people doing unattractive things (lifestyle)
We have reached saturation with traditional lifestyle imagery. Buyers have told us that at least 50% of the population is ugly, and therefore in keeing with our “real people doing real things” mantra, we are now seeking ugly people doing unattractive things including:

- Trimming nose hair
- Pulling giblets out of chickens
- Plungers, plungers, plungers!

4. Leaning Tower of Pisa images with a tilted horizon
We are specifically looking for images where the horizon is tiled -3.97 degrees.

5. Polaroids
With the recent announcement that polaroid will no longer make instant film, we are anticipating a need for vintage polaroids that you might have taken of your wife or husband in the pre-digital era.

6. Images of Danny Devito exercising

7. Emperor’s Club clients #1 – 8, and #10

8. Sunsets, Flowers, and Pictures of Feet (aka “contemporary”)

Thanks!

PS. please check out our new nanostock marketplace, where all the pictures are taken with very small cameras and sold for pennies!

 

About the author
Allen Murabayashi
Allen is CEO and co-founder of PhotoShelter. He is a regular contributor to the PhotoShelter blog, and he flosses daily.




9 Comments

steven 4-1-2008

what? april fool’s, right? are we really going to start catering to the tabloids and encourage paparazzo-like behavior? panty shots? how degrading to the photojournalism community. also, i hope you are also joking about the nanostock marketplace. i assume you are.

David Hobby 4-1-2008

Glad to see I am not the only one up and playing!

Steve Foster 4-1-2008

Damn, Allen. I had an image of Danny exercising but it was on the Eiffel at night.

Monica 4-1-2008

Hey, it’s funny that I’m Canadian and I laugh every time Chuck Mangione is on King of the Hill! And #3, you could use the pictures for the dating site Lowered Expectations from the old MadTV shows. Thanks for the chuckle!

Hank 4-1-2008

Damn it! Chuck Mangione was just at the new Mega Lo Mart opening and I forgot my camera.

david 4-1-2008

hey – thats great. what ‘f’ number would you like me to shoot with? will that determine the shutter speed?

Scott 4-2-2008

How about Danny exercising with plungers on the Tower of Pisa with the horizon between his legs showing off his Britney panties, and polaroids of ugly chickens plucking nose hair of Chuck, while the top 10 clients of the Emperor’s Club point their middle fingers up to the sunrise, siginaling the night is over….. Now “That’s Hot”

cvanwye 4-9-2008

Dangit, I thought I had finally found a market for my circa 1978 Chuck Mangione concert photos I shot while I was in high school. I knew it was too good to be true;)

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