Stock Assignment!

The last assignment me and my class had gotten in our Stock Photography class was to shoot a portfolio of Pizza and Beer. We were to hand in only five salable photographs that were perfect examples of stock photography.

First I will explain what Stock photography is. The word stock means things on the shelf, not the stock of broccoli! A stock company will house billions of photographs taken in from photographers across the globe. These photographs now go on display for anyone to buy the LICENSING RIGHTS. Meaning they pay a certain amount of money for a specific use of the image.

So basically in the case of pizza and beer. If I was a advertising company and needed a photograph of college kids fighting for a pizza then I would search it on a stock companies website and find the perfect match. Then buy the rights and bam you have your image without hiring a photographer.

Me and two other students got together on a Friday night and ordered a large pepperoni pizza from Dominos. The first thing to do before shooting a stock assignment is to do some research, we went onto multiple stock site such as Getty Images and Corbis. We brainstormed ideas and heres what we came up with.











As you can see stock is not my forte!