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 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.
To help you plan your next shoot, our favorite microstock has provided a list of content that buyers will be looking for during the next two autumn months according to the analytics service data.
