Peter Jordan Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Under “Your Images” I had a search term “dinghy sailing [teenager] ”, which had zoomed my image BRTY7P. Wondering what my competition might be I entered this search term into the Alamy search box, this returned 30 images, with mine not included. I then entered this search term into “All of Alamy”, This produced the response “no searches for the selected period”! I had included “dinghy” and ”Sailing” in my keywords. I had “teenage” in the caption and “teen” in my keywords. Searching “dinghy sailing teenage” produced 32 images including mine. Searching “dinghy sailing teen” produced 40 images including mine. How did the customers search find my image, and why can I not repeat the process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SShep Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 This is because the 'teenager' in square brackets refers to age selected from Alamy's side filter bar rather than one of your keywords.Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jordan Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share Posted September 9, 2013 Steve, Many thanks, I had wondered about those square brackets! I will add "teenager"to the keywords though, maybe not all customers use that useful stuff down the side filter bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
York Photographer Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 This is because the 'teenager' in square brackets refers to age selected from Alamy's side filter bar rather than one of your keywords. Steve That's interesting, is there a full list of what syntax does what anywhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSnapper Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Here are some: RM - Rights Managed RF - Royalty-Free PR - Property Released MR - Model Released Land - Landscape Pt - Portrait Pan - Panoramic Sq - Square C - Creative WP - With People WOP - Without People DT - Date Taken AE - Archive Excluded FS - File Size PH - Photograph IL - Illustration CO - Cut Outs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Holmes Posted September 9, 2013 Share Posted September 9, 2013 Despite risking taking this thread further OT, given Alamy's all or nothing approach to people in images, is there a standard acronym or accepted search term to distinguish identifiable people in an image ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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