Posting flower photos on Alamy

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Posting flower photos on Alamy

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I have posted a couple of orchid shots on Alamy and am thinking of adding more but I can't identify them. It occurs to me that this lack of precision may mean they never turn up in a keyword search and I may, therefore, be wasting my time. On the other hand I don't imagine there are that many photo buyers who know the full botanical names. Anyone got any thoughts?
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I suppose if I was using the shot in a text book or botany magazine I would search by the scientific name and catagory
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Yes, we have not so far sold an identified orchid shot and we have many - but we just sold a completely unidentified orchid taken by our daughter, too close-up to be correct as a botanical shot (cropped into the flower). Second such shot of hers to sell, the more accurate and captioned/identified shots with space all round, full stem and flower shown, which we took great care on have never so sold any. But then again they may in future. I can only say that just being identified as an 'an orchid' has not prevent two sales for Ailsa's shots.

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Very interesting, David, thank you very much. I have to say I find the whole issue of key words on Alamy, with descending orders of relevance, hard to fathom. I consider myself pretty articulate but there are limits to the number of relevant keywords for most subjects I can think of apart from one or two politicians, for whom my lexicon knows no bounds :D
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Actually the essential etc fields make no difference. Many of my images have most of their keywords in the comprehensive field, carried over from before they introduced the tiered system. I did not always copy the best possible keywords into the earlier fields, I just used some spreadsheet operations. Doesn't seem to matter, searches find the comprehensive field as easily as any other.

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