Wildlife Stock Photos

As you will soon discover there are a large number of companies who now have websites where you are able to get wildlife stock photos from. Yes these can really help if you are looking to make your website look great or to use in an advertising campaign. But first let us provide you with a quick explanation as to what stock photographs are. Then we will explain what you need to do in order to get hold of such photos.

There are three types of photographs you can purchase and these are as follows:-

1. Rights Managed – Which are ones that you when you choose to use them you will then need to pay a fee to the company for every time you use within a specific time frame. So you can not use these just when you want but in the time frame that has been set by the provider. These kinds of photographs are ideal for use in brochures or advertisements in magazines or newspapers. But with this particular type of photograph you may find that sometimes you have the right to exclusive use of a particular image during the time that it has been licensed to you.

2. Released – These are ones that are normally entitled "Model Released" or "Property Released" and the model or owner of the property will have signed a release so that these can be licensed through a stock agency.

3. Royalty Free – These you are not charged a fee for them every time that you use them and can be licensed to you for indefinite periods of time. But when you licensing these ones you are not actually entitled to resell them. One of the big advantages to using wildlife stock photos which are royalty free is that they are released images (see description above) so you don't need to worry about getting the releases for them.

Now we have looked at the types of wildlife stock photos a person can get let us go through some of the steps a person needs to take in order get hold of such images? Firstly, you need to find a stock photo website. Just by keying in the words "wildlife stock photographs" to any internet search engine will provide you with a list of sites that offer such images.

Then once you have found a particular site that you like the look of you can then start to search their databases for the kind of images you want. But in order to make your purchase from them you will first need to join the site. Although some sites offer you the membership for free and then you pay for the images you select, there are some sites which also require you to pay them a monthly subscription fee.

Certainly if you are only after the odd one or two wildlife stock photos then go for a website which is free to join and which you just pay for the images you are going to use. Whilst if you need more wildlife photographs more regularly then a membership fee paying site is probably the better alternative for you.