I remember when I first started working with Getty Images (then just iStock) and Shutterstock. As a budding microstock contributor, these stock photo agencies were real treasures, offering a stable source of high income from selling my vector illustrations through their platforms.
Usually there is catastrophically little time on a shoot, so it is important not to step on the same rake twice. There is no desire to repeat the typical mistakes many photographers make, which once also stole time that could have been used more effectively for closer work with stock photo sites and to improve professional mastery as a photographer.
For many beginners, it is often quite difficult to understand the specific vocabulary used by experienced stock contributors, which is full of slang terms and abbreviations.
For beginners uploading and attributing images on stock photography sites, one of the difficult steps is selecting keywords.
First, it is hard to decide which words will be key for a specific image; second, from the full list of possible words it is tricky to choose the most sellable keywords; third, many simply do not understand why keywords are needed.
Usually, selecting keywords for an image is the concluding step in the process of uploading an image to stock photo sites. Unfortunately, many microstock contributors push keywording to the back burner.
To help plan the next shoot, a favorite microstock has shared a list of content buyers will be searching for over the next two autumn months according to analytics data.
