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drawesomeI've noticed some fan artists using stock backgrounds for art, either directly, blurred or painted over. There are two I've seen used more than once. Since my main thing is landscape photography, I've been considering starting up a reference stock account on DeviantArt with some of my photos. I haven't shot much specifically for this gallery ... because I keep forgetting when I am out on shoots. But I went through my old gallery for some images and made a mock up of what I am looking to do. For how it's hosted on my own site, but I'll migrate it to DA when I am ready to go.
My mock up is here.
My thought is to shoot from angles that give the sort of perspectives I often see in fan art. I'd shoot using a 50mm equiv. prime lens since it's low distortion and the closest thing to human vision. And then, well, see how it goes. I do a lot of hiking and city walking so I think I could find a good variety of backgrounds and post one or two new ones weekly.
I'd love feedback on my idea, the wording, whether you feel the usage terms are clear. There is a lot of stock up on DA that I don't use specifically because I feel the usage terms aren't clear enough, they ask me as the artist to make a judgement call about crediting or the crediting requirements are too stringent.
The Creative Commons license I would release the images under would allow people to use them in commercial projects.
My mock up is here.
My thought is to shoot from angles that give the sort of perspectives I often see in fan art. I'd shoot using a 50mm equiv. prime lens since it's low distortion and the closest thing to human vision. And then, well, see how it goes. I do a lot of hiking and city walking so I think I could find a good variety of backgrounds and post one or two new ones weekly.
I'd love feedback on my idea, the wording, whether you feel the usage terms are clear. There is a lot of stock up on DA that I don't use specifically because I feel the usage terms aren't clear enough, they ask me as the artist to make a judgement call about crediting or the crediting requirements are too stringent.
The Creative Commons license I would release the images under would allow people to use them in commercial projects.
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Date: 2019-04-07 06:43 pm (UTC)Pretty much the only thing I don't want people doing is rehosting unaltered versions of the stock. I wish there was a Creative Commons license for that, especially since 'interactions' are basically a form of online currency these days.