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Phil Carvey
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: Northamptonshire UK
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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:57 am Post subject: Corbis: excellent pictures, but a medioc library |
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Just a small piece of advise.
I must tell you, there is know way I would sign up to the Corbis photo/picture library service. Why you may ask!. a fair question, and I shall gladly answer.
I have just spent and wasted over an hour of my time searching through your so called library for some simple examples of Restaurants / Cafes, instead, I have had to endure viewing through hundreds of unrelated pictures, of the following....
Dogs ( no cats thank goodness), Football players, Boats, Musicians, Skyscrapers, Trash cans, Kitchen utensils, Flower sellers, African people, B-listers selling their books, Princess Diana, Politicians, Tattoos, Nudists, George Bush and other Weirdoes, I could go on and fill this entire page with other unrelated categories .
Does anyone in your organization understand the concept of a Library? or indeed more importantly a Photo / Picture Library, I doubt it.
Maybe you believe you have such a person, as perhaps someone is receiving a good salary to do so. If so, can I suggest you find a replacement as a matter of urgency, as the present person responsible is losing you business.
The person responsible for the present cataloguing of your Pictures ( an impressive collection, which I will admit is excellent,) really is doing Corbis a disservice, I have been told by Architects, Designers, your collection is second only to National Geographic, well maybe it is comprehensive. But what is the use of having all this wonderful material if you can't find what your looking for.
It seems to me your method of cataloguing is based upon some sort of social study, I'm sure most of the above unrelated subjects have a social context with eating out and so forth, but you are selling a service that does not provide easy access. It seems to me it is a case of hit and miss.
A simple question to you. If you were researching a subject ,say, Musicians and thought maybe I will go to my local book lending Library.
which section would you go to? . If your not sure, I will give you a clue, will it be under.. Catering, Architecture, Politics, Sport, Flower arranging or Music.
I will be interested to see if you reply, and if so, what possible excuse you offer to explain this appalling service.
Have a nice day Phil Carvey |
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CastelliMarble
Joined: 06 Apr 2005
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you might want to try Getty Images - gettyimages.com
search for something, and if the results are too broad, try searching within a search. Different pictures are catalogued in multiple categories so they're eisier to find, so the more you specify the characteristics of what you want the more refined your search will be.
In other words, if your searching for a building and you get a picture of a park - it's probably because there's a building in the background or something.
But if you click on a picture in your search results and scroll down, you will see all the different things that the picture is categorized by.... |
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Phil Carvey
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
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Location: Northamptonshire UK
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| Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Castelli
Sounds ideal, I'll check it out. all the best Phil |
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Kevin
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Location: Eugene, Oregon
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This is a good part of why Artifice Images (sponsor of this forum) has such success with its architecture-specific stock photography collection. With a tight focus on a well-defined area like buildings, a dedicated small company can still provide superior image providing service to those image collection giants.
http://www.ArtificeImages.com/ |
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