Ed Rooney Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Thanks, Andrew -- that''s the highest praise for a food image. And I did that shot here in my cramped kitchen in Little Italy, NYC, with the one window light. The bowl is Italian. Coincidently, I had a nice sale this morning of some tomatoes I snapped in a open market in Rome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 I was in the same situation. I had about 5000 images online and was getting only occasional sales, really poor performance. Every search I tried I was down right at the end. I had a good look at other portfolios that were doing well (from what people reported). I concluded that I had three giant errors in my portfolio - too many similar images, too many rotten images and too many barely relevant keywords. It was a long task but I set about correcting this. I deleted about 1500 images (I cringe now when I see what I uploaded back then) and deleted at least half and in some cases three quarters of my keywords. The only keywords I kept were directly related to what I could see in the image, no general broad keywords at all. I was also guilty, because I dislike keywording, of copying and pasting into batches of pictures too much which only increased the number of irrelevant keywords. It took me a good few months to redo all my images. That was in 2010. Set about a good hard edit now while you have 'only' 3000 images. Directly relevant keywords only and a long detailed caption is my way of working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted February 2, 2018 Share Posted February 2, 2018 Just to add a bit more, I am looking at KWWPDB. It says that its a typical healthy Italian dish. What's it called? The editor looking for the dish by name will not see your image. In the keywords I see expo, Italy, kitchen, starving and travel. These are the broad type of words that were harming me so much. If I am searching for an image for travel in Italy, you don't get a zoom. If I am looking for starving, or a kitchen or expo in Italy, same thing. You have a nice varied portfolio, so I would think it would be worth your while to accept the long job and set about rekeywording. And to continue shooting and uploading of course. Don't give in, the $100,000 club is just a rekeywording away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdCoffee Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 Love this photo ... but isn't it a swing set in a playground? .. and not evil leaf circle ... Get on with them keywords KPJ52D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 DELETED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KODAKovic Posted February 4, 2018 Author Share Posted February 4, 2018 Thanks guys for your advises. Much appreciated! Starting the "long job" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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