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By: Rohn

Rohn — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:00:00 +0000

The digital era has made library scientists out of all of us. Keywording will be the essential key for sales in the future. It has also made us specialists where we learn the easiest route to success in stock photography is to begin photographing in a specialized niche you really enjoy. Once you collect a good selection of images, photobuyers who need your subject area will start coming to you for two reasons. 1.) you have a deep selection of images in an area they are presently researching. 2.) keywording is not difficult or boring because you are shooting subject matter that you enjoy. Besides you are familiar with the vocabulary and i.d. of the pictures. No thesauras is needed.
The benefits of working this way: 1.) You are on a first-name basis with your buyers. 2.) you develop a monopoly in this sector. 3.) You are able to consult with the buyer which makes you a mini-expert they go back to whenever they need pictures in your category of interest.

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By: cfimages

cfimages — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:15:40 +0000

Getty has a fairly useful keywording guide online at http://imagery.gettyimages.com/getty_images_key...

It gets more into the non-obvious keywords, which is often a big help, particularly for more generic imagery.

By: johnbatdorffii

johnbatdorffii — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:46:12 +0000

Matt, are you using Photoshelter to sell most of your images? Or, are you using another service as well?

By: Ian Furniss

Ian Furniss — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:19:12 +0000

It's been a fair while since I had to do any real keywording in anger so to speak but I do recall it being something of an odious task, even for a lover of language such as myself. The biggest or most frustrating problem I found initially was in actually thinking of the words. One tip to get around that, and whilst I don't of course advocate stealing in any form (I think of it more as creative learning) is to take a lead from others.

What I mean is, if I imagine myself having taken the shot above, the only keywords that come to mind are carpet, sand, Egypt. If I put that into the search engine and I see the results, then at that point i'm learning a whole new vocabulary ...words like 'galabeya' that I just wasn't aware of at all are now a part of 'my' vocabulary.

I'm not suggesting stealing someone elses keywords since (apart from the morality) that would be a bit of a flawed strategy. Your keywords obviously need to be relevant to your own image or you'll end up being in results you don't want to be in, and not being in the ones you do at which point you'll get no sales. As a away of learning and expanding your vocabulary though, it's every bit as good as reading a thesaurus.

By: Brian Hirschy

Brian Hirschy — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:30:43 +0000

I know where we can find monks and nuns- however, they are all more rich than I am.

By: Matt Brandon

Matt Brandon — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:20:03 +0000

Marco, you still got the number for those monks?

By: Matt Brandon

Matt Brandon — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:19:13 +0000

Thanks Michael. Nice link. There is also a whole list of keywords you can by and do the same thing with at HERE. My issue is that much of these pre-done list are not that helpful. Can you imagine finding words like "galabeya", "felucca" or "purdah" on a pre-fad list. If course you are suggesting making your own, maybe there is a happy medium?