Adobe Stock Updates: I’m up to about 2100 images on Adobe Stock Premium. It’s a fraction of the numbers you see from some of the top sellers but I try to keep the edits super tight, and I think the quality of the collection is very high. For my niche which is authentic outdoor adventure-forward atmospheric images, this is the way. Let me know what you think
Going forward I’ll be generating new stock images rather than mining from past shoots. I’ve done a little bit of that and it was immediately fruitful. My goal is to get to 10,000 images as I think that’s about the minimum necessary to make this whole endeavor worthwhile financially.
VIDEO:
To that end I’ve started to include video into my submissions. Once again, it’s a great exercise to re-visit and organize the many terabytes of video I’ve shot for corporate, commercial, editorial and film projects over the years and distill them down to well-edited, graded sub 1-minute clips. I welcome any thoughts, especially if you are a stock-focused buyer.
TRENDS:
The biggest challenge is getting these images and videos to bubble up to the top of searches. For one thing, theres lots of generative AI to contend with these days. Adobe provides great seasonal guides and intelligence for stock contributors. Staying ahead of seasons, events and holidays is important. Metadata is all-important obviously but you can’t just throw trendy keywords in and that’s it. You have to have a more holistic approach. For example, the Autumn 23 Adobe Stock blog recently noted that internet searches for “Nature on your doorstep” have increased 287 percent in China. OK so what does that mean? People are interested in finding nature close to home, and might be search terms like “local, hyperlocal, back yard, urban, park, wellness, close to home, foraging, forts, nature on your doorstep” and so on. Including those terms in the metadata for a clip like this (boats in Montego Bay, Jamaica) probably doesn’t make sense, right?
But it reminds me of a project I’ve been working on for a few years called “Woodland Wild,” documenting the natural world around our home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. That’s probably 50-100 clips to match that trend of “nature on your doorstep,” as well as other interests. To wit, here’s a crossed orb weaver doing its thing at the end of our street one summer:
Please comment below if you have any stock experiences or insights you’d like to share, or if you just want to sound off. See you out there!
Published on Nov 18, 2024
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