Usually, there is catastrophically little time during shoots, so I try not to step on the same rake. I don’t want to repeat the typical mistakes of many beginning photographers who once stole my time, which I could have spent more productively on better collaboration with photo stock agencies and improving my professional skills as a photographer.
Many novice micro stockers often find it quite difficult to understand the specific jargon used by experienced stock photographers, which is filled with various slang terms and abbreviations.
For beginners, one of the challenging moments when uploading and attributing images on stock photo sites is the selection of keywords.
First, it’s difficult to determine which words will be keywords for a specific image; second, it’s challenging to choose the best-selling keywords from the entire list of possible words; and third, many stockers simply don’t understand the purpose and value of the right keywords.
Typically, selecting keywords for an image is the final step in the process of uploading images to stock banks. Unfortunately, many microstock contributors tend to push keyword selection to the background.
If you are a beginner in vector graphics and you are not a professional designer with an amazing knowledge of Illustrator, you may feel quite scared. Don’t be. Vectors, like sharks, are just misunderstood creatures.
What wish would a microstock photographer make for the upcoming Christmas? I suppose all one needs is a regular crystal ball of the fortune teller. After all, if we knew exactly what buyers
