I need a picture for an imaginary ad campaign on an imaginary product.
I have been looking for a guy and a girl having fun during the night. Right now the best I could find was this. The problem with that is that it takes place during day time and the guy looks like he is in pain.
For this to be a truly persuasive ad I would need a picture that would convince you to wish you were the guy or girl inside the picture or that you are missing out on their fun. That way I could Photoshop the name of any product onto the picture and create a link between the feeling of “missing out on the couple’s fun” and “missing out if I don’t have product X”.
But after 3 hours of searching, I’ll settle for a male and female looking at each other during night time.
Morguefile.com is the biggie for free photo imagery. And you shouldn’t just use random pix you find off the 'net; they are copyrighted. You don’t want to get sued by the copyright holder! Or for the not-free but budget-minded, istockphoto.com. For a buck you can get rights to a low-res pic from istockphoto, and support artists. Gettyimages is one of the biggies if you’re willing to shell out more cash, but you can download comps to use for 30 days for free for your own use.
There’s a ton on istockphoto and getty you can get by searching for “night couple fun” and “night couple” but I can’t link to them without it attaching my login. You never find exactly the pic you want when looking for a photo; I’m always like, “how can they not have a shot of 15 kinds of fruit with the names of each showing? How can they not have a shot of a middle aged businessman looking through a doughnut hole?” You always make do with what you can find and afford.