Footage with no movement which could be stills ?

Marbury 29 Apr 2014 09:50
I am a bit miffed why some buyers would pay $60 for footage of a stationery object,landscape,building when they could get a cheaper stills image. Why would anyone shoot anything with no movement at all ? Just curious.
BunFest 29 Apr 2014 10:32
There is different of a still image and a no-movement footage!
Cloud, air, leaves in landscape/building is moving all the time (even one second long only). Take a closer look and you will find out the different.

Don't you not happy when buyer buy your still footage and not a stock image from $1 dollar download?
Why buyer buy $300 clip and not $10 from our Mr. T! I have no complaint about that at all.
wideweb 29 Apr 2014 10:44
Someone on this site has sold moving image (literally) for $450.
It was an image from electron microscope, that by nature only produces stills.
They have used the Ken Burns effect.
NorwayStock 29 Apr 2014 11:16
This is the big wonders and woes of the stock footage business! You never know what will sell!
A large part of my portfolio is wildlife footage. And many of them are different sequences of the same species. I am often surprised what buyers choose over the others, even if the price is the same.