Stock Photography in Idaho: Boise, Meridian, Caldwell, Mountain Home, Glenn’s Ferry, Malad Gorge, Burley, and Blackfoot, 2007
Mar 22nd, 2008 by Leo A. Geis
We’ve finally settled in on a method for producing access to our stock images: By registering them to a geopolitical map.
We have just configured and automated our system, so anything prior to January 2008 has to be “manually” entered into the database. Therefore, we’ll have two databases: one for 2007 and earlier, and one for 2008 and later. I started entering images into the 2007-and-earlier database on 3/20/08 and expect to enter a few hundred each week. It would have been nice to have a few thousand entered before our “busy” season hit, but it’s already here (we’re usually pretty busy all year, but it really “boils” from April through November).
I won’t be entering much into the 2007-and-earlier database that we’ll be reshooting this year, specifically: Blaine County (Bellevue, Hailey, Ketchum, and Sun Valley), Idaho Falls, Rexburg, Pocatello, Lewiston, Moscow, Coeur d’ Alene, Ontario (Oregon), and Yellowstone (Wyoming and Montana).
Anything we shoot from now on (that’s intended to be available as stock) will enjoy the new automated workflow-just a few clicks and they’re in the database, including GPS position (to within about 10 feet on a bad day!), time, altitude, heading, speed, direction the camera is pointing, lens and camera data (including the specific camera body and settings)…even which focal length the lens is set at when using “zooms.”
We’re not planning on marketing our Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo, Denver, Colorado Springs, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, or any remote area stock images by this method.
To access the stock libraries simply visit our Stock Images page (the button is located in the upper right of the navigation bar on this page). Click the link of the library you’d like to access and enjoy the tour!
The fountain in Ann Morrison Park, August, 2007. We were just playin’…
Finally, credit where credit is due. It was our good friend Marty Sellers (Sellers Photo) of Huntsville, Alabama that prompted us to run with this technique, and even provided some technical support while we were learning the software. Thanks, Marty!
L