Do people really pay for images?

[notta]

I was looking for a photo today and I stumbled across a picture of a monitor on fotosearch. I clicked on the image to see what it looked like and the price was $99 for the image. Are you kidding me? $99 dollars for an image??? Do people actually pay these prices? I mean the monitor was no different than the monitor sitting on my desk.

http://www.fotosearch.com/CSP247/k2471991/

Am I missing something?

[Rudy]

I was looking for a photo today and I stumbled across a picture of a monitor on fotosearch. I clicked on the image to see what it looked like and the price was $99 for the image. Are you kidding me? $99 dollars for an image??? Do people actually pay these prices? I mean the monitor was no different than the monitor sitting on my desk.

http://www.fotosearch.com/CSP247/k2471991/

Am I missing something?

I'm sure some companies do when they need something for an ad or something (sometimes they just steal from flickr and are embarrassed when someone figures it out)

[Draconian Guppy]

YEah in some cases you're paying for big resolution, such is the case for that specific file

High Resolution

24.9 MB / 300 dpi / 10.4" x 9.3" / RGB

Gotta add though, i've seen images on istock go well over $100 :)

[_neutrino Veteran]

The company I work for pays for stock image to use in advertising.

[leph555]

We payed for photos that where used as greeting cards for the company

[stereopixels]

I work in marketing and we buy images - we'd never buy something as expensive as the OP states though because there are plenty of cheap, good quality pics of things like monitors etc out there.

[Argote]

Yes, companies in particular pay for images, this one is way more expensive than average though.

[Guest]

Could easily be cheaper than hiring a photographer in many cases.

[M_Lyons10]

Though that's an expensive image for it's content, I think more than anything you are paying for size. We purchase all of our images as well (As legally you have to have a license to use someone's image), and usually there's a tiered pricing model. So a smaller or lower quality image would be cheaper...

[crazzy88ss]

It's called stock photography.

Microstock is rather cheap, while macrostock (what you gave a link to) is more expensive.

[XerXis]

of course, i work for an advertising agency from time to time and they always buy their images. In the long run it's a lot cheaper than having to take them yourself in a wel lit environment (whiteroom stuff) and cut away the not needed parts.

[PT 13]

I had some of my photos bought (and paid :p).

So yeah, some people do buy images, I'm guessing for advertisement and other stuff like music CD covers and stuff like that