Finding images that do not look like stock photos

Cheesy stock photos look worse than a list of dense bullets. If you need an image of a normal-looking person here some things I try:

• Try other sources than stock image sites, I put a number of free image sources here
• Use adjectives to find an expression you want: "calm", "proud", avoid terms such as "happy", "smiling" which will instantly return cheesy images
• Use images that do not reveal the face (taken from the back, or a frontal crop)
• Avoid any image with a photoshopped, fake background or added graphics
• If you find one image that sort of works, dig deeper and bring up all the images that were made with the same model, maybe there is a better one hiding somewhere
• Use images of kids, they are almost always spontaneous

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