Stock Photo Deathbattle

Stock photos are an important part to any content create anymore. They allow us to find easy to use and legally usable images in work. Today, I'm gonna start outlining 4 different sites:

http://www.morguefile.com/
http://www.pexels.com/
http://gratisography.com/
 https://unsplash.com/

I'll be ranking them each on various categories, including accessibility, quality of images, ability to search, among others. For constancy, I'll also be showing off my favorite images from each respective website

morguefile

Starting with morguefile, it's been a favorite by many people for a long time. It is very accessible, and is simple to start up. My biggest problem right off the bat is the fact that it seems like it has a big problem with quality over quantity. The image quality is okay, but there seem to be more low quality images or ones that don't relate as much to what I search. Downloading images works just fine, so no complaining from here. The website itself has existed for quite a long time so they have a large selection of images available, so for most things you need to find are there. I highly recommend this website.

pexels

Next is pexels. This website has the best layout out of all 4 of the website in this battle of the images. The images themselves are also very high quality and I tend to regularly find good images for possible use in projects in the future. A downside is that many of the images are very much human based and have a lot less environmental images, though that doesn't mean they don't have any. The other websites are gonna have to step up their game to beat this website.

gratisography

Coming up next is gratisography. Right off the bat, this website definitely the weirdest of all the images. I don't see how any of these images will have many conventional use for these images. Many of these almost look like they belong in some kind of art show. The website also doesn't have a search which made it very hard to find certain images. This website definitely is more for fun instead of real use. This website is probably a good way to spend a couple free hours at least. I couldn't actually find any images of rockets so I just chose my favorite one.

unsplash

Finally, we have unsplash. This website is very bare bones and, though the images are nice, I just don't see myself using it in the future. There also aren't as many images on the website to find, making it hard to recommend for use. As much as I want to support small groups by using their images, this is just a hard website to use. I recommend at least looking at it, because a lot of the images are very nice and pretty. This mountain scene in particular really caught my eye.

Final Verdict

Pexels gets my final vote. I just see myself using this website a whole lot in the future. I highly recommend it. Morguefile is also coming in at a very close second and I will also be using in the future. Gratisography is coming in a fairly distant third, and unsplash is coming in last. Those last two will be very niche in when I use them.