Comments on: Photo Keywording 3.0 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30 Marketing Your Photography Business Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:17:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dave Brown http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30/comment-page-1#comment-2880 Dave Brown Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:36:36 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=987#comment-2880 I'm curious to try that ImageKeyworder, do you have any idea on what the price is for it? I can't imagine it would be too expensive, but then again i've been suprised before. I'm curious to try that ImageKeyworder, do you have any idea on what the price is for it? I can't imagine it would be too expensive, but then again i've been suprised before.

]]> By: Rick Waggoner http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30/comment-page-1#comment-2851 Rick Waggoner Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:38:10 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=987#comment-2851 The unfortunate thing with the thesaurus approach is the keyword limit placed on photos by websites. I've found that a chunk of my keywords get cut quite often, and therefore don't add too many variations in spelling each word (ie. British English versus American English). I think there's also something to be said for the different mindsets people have when surfing the internet versus searching a database. In the traditional database people would enter every possible thing in the photo. So if a girl was wearing earrings, for example, you would add the keyword "earring". That would be as opposed to only entering "earring" when the photo is specifically of an earring. I tend to keyword with a more database like approach, which is likely why I end up with some keywords getting cut. That said, one search that keeps showing up again and again is "gold tooth" or "gold tooth smile". I'm not sure why someone is searching for that, but am glad that the photos I have with people and their gold teeth are marked with that level of detail. The thing is "gold tooth" starts with the letter "g". Had someone been searching my photos for "washing hair", there's a greater chance they wouldn't find it because "washing" starts with "w", and the keywords that get cut are toward the end of the alphabet since Lightroom exports the keywords in alphabetical order. The unfortunate thing with the thesaurus approach is the keyword limit placed on photos by websites. I've found that a chunk of my keywords get cut quite often, and therefore don't add too many variations in spelling each word (ie. British English versus American English).

I think there's also something to be said for the different mindsets people have when surfing the internet versus searching a database. In the traditional database people would enter every possible thing in the photo. So if a girl was wearing earrings, for example, you would add the keyword "earring". That would be as opposed to only entering "earring" when the photo is specifically of an earring. I tend to keyword with a more database like approach, which is likely why I end up with some keywords getting cut. That said, one search that keeps showing up again and again is "gold tooth" or "gold tooth smile". I'm not sure why someone is searching for that, but am glad that the photos I have with people and their gold teeth are marked with that level of detail. The thing is "gold tooth" starts with the letter "g". Had someone been searching my photos for "washing hair", there's a greater chance they wouldn't find it because "washing" starts with "w", and the keywords that get cut are toward the end of the alphabet since Lightroom exports the keywords in alphabetical order.

]]> By: T. C. Knight http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30/comment-page-1#comment-2718 T. C. Knight Mon, 25 May 2009 15:37:56 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=987#comment-2718 Thanks for this post. Keywording is my downfall. I usually can think of no more than 5 to 10 keywords for any photo I take. I photograph a business in which I have spent most of my life so I KNOW what the essential keywords are. Yet, I still can't fill that field like it should be filled. Thanks for pointing to some further resources to accomplish this task. T. C. Knight Thanks for this post. Keywording is my downfall. I usually can think of no more than 5 to 10 keywords for any photo I take. I photograph a business in which I have spent most of my life so I KNOW what the essential keywords are. Yet, I still can't fill that field like it should be filled. Thanks for pointing to some further resources to accomplish this task.

T. C. Knight

]]> By: Douglas http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30/comment-page-1#comment-2706 Douglas Fri, 22 May 2009 13:39:02 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=987#comment-2706 Nice post. Your blog is one of the best I've come across addressing the business of photography. Keep up the good work! Nice post. Your blog is one of the best I've come across addressing the business of photography. Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Bob Davies http://blogs.photopreneur.com/photo-keywording-30/comment-page-1#comment-2701 Bob Davies Thu, 21 May 2009 15:44:20 +0000 http://blogs.photopreneur.com/?p=987#comment-2701 Awesome post, I've spent a lot of time investigating this issue and more often than not seeing underconsidered posts about it's complexity. It's refreshing to see such a well thought out article :) Cheers Bob Awesome post, I've spent a lot of time investigating this issue and more often than not seeing underconsidered posts about it's complexity. It's refreshing to see such a well thought out article :)

Cheers
Bob

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