Was wondering if anybody knows if you can buy single prints of pictures from Getty Images? Or are all their pictures for marketing? There are a couple of Larry Bird pictures I would like to have from them, but I couldn't find a way to purchase them. Thanks for your help.
I recently contacted Getty Images about purchasing several pictures from their archives. Unless you represent another media source, they really don't want to deal with you. They will, however, sell you the photo(s) you desire if you are willing to buy,let's say,100 or so copies of the same photo.
This was my experience. Perhaps you should contact G/I yourself and see what they have to say. GOOD LUCK!
Getty and Corbis are in the business of supply images to newspapers, magazines and books, so you pretty much have to be a publisher to get the big clear images. They are like Associated Press and UPI. If they knew how much game used collectors used their searches, they might not be so exclusive.
Getty recently added to their watermark, making it larger and more difficult to alter. They realize folks steal their images and many photos have extra logos as watermarks (ie NBA logo), and different companies who own the images. Corbis' watermark is much, much lighter, but larger and harder to remove. I've heard that the "original" watermark that said "gettyimages" could be removed on photoshop with a little patience...this is the only watermark on many vintage photos...recent photos ALL have detailed watermarks that are difficult to alter.
*disclaimer
This activity is illegal and I do not endorse altering copywritten images.
Who, besides Gettys and Corbis, is a good site to find sports pictures? Is there any others out there (besides google and yahoo seaches)? Let me know. thanks.
