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It's been my policy not to use subjective terms like delicious, fabulous, and lovely in my captions or tags. I just did some test searches on All of Alamy and found, to my surprise, many buyers do use them.  :o

 

I've been under the impression that we should add tags for things we see in an image. We don't see "delicious." 

 

What do you do, and why?  :unsure:

 

 

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Don't see 'delicious'? Really? A pic of an apple isn't just an apple. It'll be a 'red' or green' apple, and it may look 'delicious'. A 'beautiful' face... a 'tranquil' view... an 'ugly' building... a 'desirable' car, etc...

 

What's wrong with subjectivity?

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Don't see 'delicious'? Really? A pic of an apple isn't just an apple. It'll be a 'red' or green' apple, and it may look 'delicious'. A 'beautiful' face... a 'tranquil' view... an 'ugly' building... a 'desirable' car, etc...

 

What's wrong with subjectivity?

 

 

There are also "Golden Delicious" apples. :)

 

Allan

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Don't see 'delicious'? Really? A pic of an apple isn't just an apple. It'll be a 'red' or green' apple, and it may look 'delicious'. A 'beautiful' face... a 'tranquil' view... an 'ugly' building... a 'desirable' car, etc...

 

What's wrong with subjectivity?

 

 

There are also "Golden Delicious" apples. :)

 

Allan

 

 

...Which, if I recall, are neither golden nor delicious... :unsure:

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It's been my policy not to use subjective terms like delicious, fabulous, and lovely in my captions or tags. I just did some test searches on All of Alamy and found, to my surprise, many buyers do use them.  :o

 

I've been under the impression that we should add tags for things we see in an image. We don't see "delicious." 

 

What do you do, and why?  :unsure:

 

It's up to everyone's personal taste   :)

 

You may be a bit too strict in your keywording,  Ed.

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Don't see 'delicious'? Really? A pic of an apple isn't just an apple. It'll be a 'red' or green' apple, and it may look 'delicious'. A 'beautiful' face... a 'tranquil' view... an 'ugly' building... a 'desirable' car, etc...

 

What's wrong with subjectivity?

 

 

There are also "Golden Delicious" apples. :)

 

Allan

 

 

...Which, if I recall, are neither golden nor delicious... :unsure:

 

 

Nope. Pale and watery.

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Photo researchers will sometimes use an exact description of the photograph they are looking for. IE “graveyard”. Other times they will use a concept keyword like “scary”.

 
Often photo researchers are not sure exactly what they are looking for, so searching on a concept keyword is part of their creative process. Often they will present an editorial meeting with 4 or 5 mockups of a book cover, poster, advertisement etc showing very different images, but all showing the same concept.
 
Advertising is based on concepts, and advertising pays higher prices.
 
I try to supertag both description of image contents, and concept.
 
Here is an example:
 
Description: Sikh, Tamil. Concept: multiculturism
multiculturalism-tamil-canadian-politici
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When in a quandary over which subjective word to use, you can always choose awesome.

 

I stay away from subjective words (especially "great", "tremendous," and "huge" B) ).  Concepts are another story.

 

 

Our new President seems to enjoy using these empty superlatives. I do not.

 

However, Bill and others have turned my head, and I shall be entering some fabulous, glorious, spectaculor, lovely, and cute keywords in the future.  :wacko:

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When in a quandary over which subjective word to use, you can always choose awesome.

 

I stay away from subjective words (especially "great", "tremendous," and "huge" B) ).  Concepts are another story.

 

 

Our new President seems to enjoy using these empty superlatives. I do not.

 

However, Bill and others have turned my head, and I shall be entering some fabulous, glorious, spectaculor, lovely, and cute keywords in the future.  :wacko:

 

 

To be fair, empty superlatives are many politicians' stock-in-trade. Although the present occupant (weekdays only) of the White House definitely wins the prize.

 

I guess subjective words make sense with some subjects -- e.g. lovely / beautiful / stunning (hate that adjective) sunset, landscape etc. I'd stay away from "beautiful face" or "ugly puss", though.

 

"amazing sunset" seems to have a lot of fans.

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