Everybody Loves Keywording PhotographsPosted by drfl on May 12th, 2010

Okay, I’ll admit it, I hate keywording photographs.  I don’t know what it is, but I have a hard time coming up with words that others might use to find my photographs using search engines.  And it is a necessity, in today’s graphical world, photographs are still reached using keywords and descriptors.  I doubt anyone remembers a browser named “lynx”, but it used to render the World Wide Web completely in text.  If you were to use that today, I doubt that very much information would be accessible outside Wikipedia, but that is exactly part of what leads to Wikipedia’s success: Lots and lots of lovely text for those search engines.  My family and friends who may read this probably know that I am usually not at a loss for words, but when it comes to my art, I want it to speak for itself, not be defined by a series of phrases.  But, I know that its an excuse and every so often I vow to change this.  Today is another one of those days.  Its been raining quite a bit in Nebraska and as such I haven’t made it out to photograph.  Additionally, my web statistics showed a pretty good drop in traffic in February and March, so I need to drive more traffic.  A perfect time to sit down to the daunting task of keywording and building some good information around the images.  Oh, and one more thing, all that neat text needs to be spell checked. Keywording, an evil necessity for photography!

Of course, I’m starting this process with today’s image, “Curves and Clouds”, please enjoy that added info!

Technical Details:
Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40 f/4l @ 30mm, f/8, 1/8 sec.
Gateway Arch, Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, St. Louis, Missouri