Image & VIdeo Keywording Tips

One keywording tip every day of the year, to help photographers and image library managers to better archive their images and videos. For stock photography, microstock, publishers, universities and any other image or video libraries.

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Tip #194 Video Framing I: Extreme Closeup

You should use the keyword phrase EXTREME CLOSEUP anytime the video shows anything smaller than the head or face of a person or similar size shot of any object.

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Tip #193 Image Framing IV: Wide Angle View

WIDE ANGLE VIEW has five synonyms:

WIDE ANGLE

WIDE ANGLE LENS

WIDE-ANGLE VIEW

WIDE-ANGLE

WIDE-ANGLE LENS

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Tip #192 Image Framing IV: Overall

OVERALL and it's commonly used synonym OVERVIEW should be used anytime the image or video shows most or all of a clearly defined area, such as a room, garden or field.

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Tip #191 Image Framing III: Macro

A MACRO should be thought of as a super closeup of a DETAIL.

The subject of the image should be only a very small part of the object, and the image should be showing fine details that would most likely be missed by the human eye.

Some examples:

hairs on a honey bee

reflection on a drop of water

individual grains of sand

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Tip #190 Image Framing II: Detail

A DETAIL should be thought of as a closeup of a CLOSEUP.

In other words, the subject of the image or video should be only a part of the object, the object should most likely be identifiable, but the focus is on a small part of it.

Some examples:

fabric on a sofa

the leg of a chair

bark on a tree

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Tip #189 Image Framing I: Closeup

CLOSEUP is for when the shot is taken from (yep you guessed it) very close.

The image or video needs to be filled primarily with the subject, and the viewer should see most or all of the subject.

Don't forget the variant spelling CLOSE-UP and CLOSE UP as well.

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Tip #188 Image Framing vs Video Framing

Framing essentially describes how close to, and how much of the subject is in the image or video.

Image framing and video framing use different terms, and it is essential you know them and use them correctly as keywords.

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Tip #187 Underwater Shots

If the image or video was taken UNDERWATER, you should also use several different keyword phrases:

UNDERWATER POINT OF VIEW

UNDERWATER POV

UNDERWATER VIEW

UNDERWATER SHOT

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Tip #186 From Shore POV

If your image or video is taken the shore looking out across a large body of water, then you should use all three of these keyword phrases:

FROM SHORE POINT OF VIEW

FROM SHORE POV

FROM SHORE

Keep in mind you must be able to see some land in the foreground, to show the image was taken from shore.

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Tip #185 To Shore Point of View

If your image or video is taken from a body of water looking back to the shore, then you should use all three of these keyword phrases:

TO SHORE POINT OF VIEW

TO SHORE POV

TO SHORE

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Tip #184 Synonyms for X-Ray Video

X-RAY VIDEO has four other synonyms that should be keyworded as well:

X RAY VIDEO

XRAY VIDEO

RADIOGRAPH

RADIOGRAPHY

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Tip #183 Animated Video

ANIMATED VIDEO is the preferred keyword for any moving image that is made up of illustrations, whether hand drawn, digitally composed, painted or made by any other non film/video method of creation.

Be sure to use the keyword ANIMATIONas well.

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Tip #182 Colorized Video and Film

Use the keyword COLORIZED VIDEO for videos (primarily older films) that were originally black and white but had other colors added digitally later.

Don't forget to include the synonym COLORIZATION and the British English spellings:

COLOURIZED VIDEO

COLOURIZED VIDEO

COLOURIZATION

COLOURISATION

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Tip #181 Pixilated Video

PIXILATED and PIXILIZATION are all keywords you should use along with PIXILATED VIDEO for any video with clear raggedness of pixils from overenlargement.

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Tip #180 Infrared Video or Thermal Video

Make sure you know the difference between an INFRARED VIDEO and a THERMAL VIDEO. An INFRARED VIDEO only shows infrared wavelengths of light not normally visible to humans, while a THERMAL VIDEO actually registers the variations in temperature of the the objects in the VIDEO.

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Tip #179 Color Video

Just like for COLOR IMAGE and COLOR ILLUSTRATION, it is always smart to include the British variation COLOUR VIDEO when keywording a COLOR VIDEO.

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Tip #178 B&W Video

Like all forms of BLACK AND WHITE there are different keyword phrases for VIDEO: BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO, BLACK & WHITE VIDEO, BLACK/WHITE VIDEO, BW VIDEO, B&W VIDEO, and B/W VIDEO. You will want to use all six variations.