01
DISCOVER
12 stock photo stories hiding on an ordinary high street.
IN DEVELOPMENT
Take a photo of what is around you.
Upload your photo to ShotScout.
ShotScout analyses photo opportunities matched to your location.
ShotScout compares them against current stock-marketplace data
ShotScout prioritises high-demand, low-supply shot suggestions.
ShotScout returns your fully personalised shot brief for your location
BUT TO DO THAT RESEARCH REALLY WELL WE NEED YOUR HELP!
You can help by taking part in our first STOCK HUNT CHALLENGE
1. Download our free ANY HIGH STREET SHOTSCOUT BRIEF
2. Take the challenge. Follow all or part of the brief, take your images and submit them to your usual stock sites.
3. Tell us what gets accepted. Once your images are accepted, send us the stock-site image links or reference numbers.
Only new stock assets added to a stock agency on or after 22 August 2026 and accepted before 11:59pm UK time on 17 October 2026 will count towards Challenge 001.
SHOTSCOUT · by 3 EYED RAVEN PRODUCTIONS
Profitable Stock Photos Hiding in Plain Sight..
SHOTSCOUT IS AT THE RESEARCH STAGE
WHAT SHOTSCOUT WILL DO
Take a photo of what is around you.
Upload your photo to ShotScout.
ShotScout analyses photo opportunities matched to your location.
ShotScout compares them against current stock-marketplace data
ShotScout prioritises high-demand, low-supply shot suggestions.
ShotScout returns your fully personalised shot brief for your location
IF OUR RESEARCH GOES WELL...
We can ALL reduce future research time and take more commercially viable stock photosBUT TO DO THAT RESEARCH REALLY WELL WE NEED YOUR HELP!
You can help by taking part in our first STOCK HUNT CHALLENGE
HOW TO TAKE PART IN STOCK HUNT CHALLENGE 001
1. Download our free ANY HIGH STREET SHOTSCOUT BRIEF
2. Take the challenge. Follow all or part of the brief, take your images and submit them to your usual stock sites.
3. Tell us what gets accepted. Once your images are accepted, send us the stock-site image links or reference numbers.
Only new stock assets added to a stock agency on or after 22 August 2026 and accepted before 11:59pm UK time on 17 October 2026 will count towards Challenge 001.
THE CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE 001 — ANY HIGH STREET
Opens: 22 August 2026
Closes: 17 October 2026 at 11:59pm UK time
Only qualifying stock assets added to a stock agency on or after 22 August 2026
and accepted by a stock agency before 11:59pm UK time on 17 October 2026
will count towards Challenge 001.
The contributors with the highest number of qualifying photographs accepted by stock agencies during the challenge period will win:
1ST PLACE — 500 AI PHOTOGRAPHY TOOLS CREDITS
2ND PLACE — 300 AI PHOTOGRAPHY TOOLS CREDITS
3RD PLACE — 100 AI PHOTOGRAPHY TOOLS CREDITS
Winners and selected contributors can choose whether their ShotScout feature links directly to their accepted stock photograph or to their photography portfolio — helping promote either the image itself or their wider work.
TIES: If two or more contributors tie for a prize position, each will receive the full credit prize for that position. Prizes will not be divided, and a tie will not affect the prizes awarded for the positions below it.
HELP WITH THE RESEARCH — GET 10 FREE CREDITS
This challenge isn't only about winning. We want to find out whether the opportunities identified by ShotScout actually work in the real stock marketplace.
Send us links or reference numbers for at least 10 qualifying stock assets added to a stock agency on or after 22 August 2026, together with your feedback — good or bad — on the ShotScout brief, and we'll give you 10 free AI Photography Tools credits as a thank-you for helping with our research.
We'd also love you to come back and tell us what happens next. Are your photographs appearing in search results? Are they moving up the results? Have they sold?
That longer-term information will help us understand whether ShotScout is identifying opportunities that are not only accepted by agencies, but actually have commercial potential.
Credits can be redeemed on SpeedData Pro Stock Metadata Generator or retained until our ShotScout App is launched.
A FEW SIMPLE RULES
• Only stock assets added to a stock agency on or after 22 August 2026 qualify for Challenge 001.
• You can follow all or only part of the ShotScout brief.
• An image counts once it has been accepted by a stock agency and you provide a link or reference number that allows us to verify it.
• Challenge 001 runs from 22 August 2026 until 11:59pm UK time on 17 October 2026.
• Longer-term search position and sales information is valuable to our research, but does not determine the challenge winners.
• ShotScout is currently at the research stage. The brief identifies opportunities based on our research, but cannot guarantee agency acceptance, search position or sales.
BE IN IT TO WIN IT
STOCK HUNT 001
ANY HIGH STREET
We created the ANY HIGH STREET stock hunt first. We have been testing every idea to find out whether the opportunities identified in the hunt actually stand up to marketplace research.
02
OBSERVE
Details, behaviour, texture and overlooked moments.
03
EXPAND
Take one opportunity and turn it into a fuller shoot.
REVERSE RESEARCH
Does the idea survive the evidence?
We approach Adobe Stock as a typical buyer: we start our search broad, which tells us how many assets are available for a given subject. We then add context, format and other filters to narrow the search, seeing how many assets remain. We repeat the process with other agencies to see how the results compare. We are looking for genuinely under-represented opportunities even with subjects that are heavily represented. That is how we identify our ShotScout opportinites.
Selected research
Outdoor café culture
PROMISING NICHEWHAT CHANGED?
83,010 became 78.
The broad subject looked heavily represented. Add UK context, photography and a vertical requirement and the genuinely competing pool becomes dramatically smaller.
This is what we're teaching ShotScout to look for.
Competition
Buyer signals
Authenticity gap
AI competition
Format gaps
Accessibility
NOW WE NEED YOU
Take the Hunt into the real world.
Marketplace research can suggest an opportunity. Photographers can tell us whether it actually works.
01 · CHOOSE
Pick an opportunity.
02 · SHOOT
Interpret it your way.
03 · TEST
Submit it to your stock agency.
Accepted? Send us the public link.
Accepted? Send us the public stock link or reference number so we can verify your entry.
SHARE YOUR SHOTSTOCK HUNT 001
THE SHOTSCOUT 10
Ten selected agency-accepted photographs from the Hunt, with direct links to the photographer's stock image or portfolio.
YOUR SHOT
Photographer
ShotScout opportunity
ACCEPTED ✓YOUR SHOT
Photographer
ShotScout opportunity
ACCEPTED ✓ · SOLD ✓YOUR SHOT
Photographer
ShotScout opportunity
ACCEPTED ✓ · SALES UPDATEGallery examples are placeholders showing how contributor results could be displayed.
THIS IS HOW WE'RE BUILDING SHOTSCOUT
Research → Shoot → Test → Learn → Improve.
Every Hunt gives us more evidence. Every photographer who tests it gives us better feedback. Over time, both will help shape the algorithms and prompts behind the ShotScout app.