Question for designers: where to get images for your design, if photo stocks just suck?

Question

Design

I want to do a couple of e-commerce projects, but one of the most important design details is the photo. There is no normal photo in photo stocks. For example, as on this site cienneny.com . How to be? How are you doing?

Answer 1

Take a photo yourself)

Answer 2

Adobe bought out Fotolia a long time ago - recently launched its own stock - Adobe Stock . Look there. But, if you look globally, all photo stocks are the same.
If photo stocks stop satisfying, this is already a good sign). Forced smiles, unnatural facial expressions and postures, the same people - they cannot add quality to your work. These sites exist only for people who do not care what is shown, or only as a rough sketch for the subsequent work of photographers, 3d modelers, designers.
Yes, and companies in their Guidelines are trying to prohibit the use of photo stocks.
Here is Microsoft for example (MS Corporate Brand Guidelines):
Or Dell(Dell Brand Identity Standards):

Answer 3

Oh sore subject. Photo stocks are filled with either rubbish or beautiful photos that you can’t hide anywhere. And even paid, and even very expensive.
A case from recent practice - the photo of a respectable man in a suit and tie was needed. Well, it would seem - a rather banal case, nothing special, right? We'll find it quickly!
Oh. 10+ stocks were searched, thousands of photos - everything is not right! Some strange faces, strange poses, strange backgrounds. Separate hatred for photographers who, from a photo shoot of dozens of photos, can never show a person as a whole - either they cut off his arm, then his leg, then the top of his head. They think that their masterpiece will be used as it is, and not adjusted to fit on a website or in a magazine.
Half of the pics are photoshopped to death. Etc. Found with great difficulty a couple of pictures that came up with reservations.
And at the same time, paid photo stocks have some completely wild pricing policies, as if all this slag was filmed by Martian virgins at sunrise on the slope of Mount Fuji.
I'm afraid to imagine what people are doing who need more exotic themes.

Answer 4

Lol Lol
Bad looking) Finding a suitable photo is very difficult. But you can. You just need to spend more time on it - the Internet is large, and there are many free stocks. They have a moronic format, often without even searching, and often you have to scroll through each stock from cover to cover. And where to go? It's still faster (and cheaper, of course) than organizing a photo shoot.