In the line of work that I’m in, its essential to get good stock photography when you can’t get out and take your own. I’ll keep this brief because the site can speak for itself.
If you’re looking for free stock photography, pay a visit to the Stock eXChange over at this address (sxc.hu). I’ve an account with BigStockPhoto and its not too bad, some nice photos but you can be quite limited. That said, sxc.hu has a huge amount of photos from some very talented stock photographers and if you’re looking for ideas for a shoot, photos for web or print content then I suggest looking no further than here. Its quickly become my favourite haunt for stock photography…seen as its free and all 😉
You can also buy direct in Ireland. Check out http://www.imagefile.ie/blog/our-collections/subscription-services/
You get unlimited usage by subscription, so you can use as much as you want for anything you want. Very handy for web dev indeed!
Subscription service eh? Not bad. For the moment I’m happy going the free route, or slightly cheaper route with credits as opposed to subscribtions given I’m not hounding stock sites for hundreds of images quite yet, but all in good time!
nice site ken.. id never even use all the free images dont mind having to subscribe!
you do get some pretty nice shots out of it, a lot of artistic people out there. even from a browsing point of view its pretty good 🙂