G'day folks,

In the past, I've been advised in these forums that the best way to approach editorial captions is to do them to Shutterstock's standards, no matter which agency I'm sending to. SS have revised their editorial policy (http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/announcing-shutterstocks-new-editorial-guidelines) so that you no longer have to supply the location and date a second time in the caption. In light of this, is the advice that I was given still good? FWIW, my other agencies are IS and BS...

TIA

Just to add that 123rf have their own (different) format for editorial captions and that some agencies do not require any specific format. Note also that Istock require you to mention any people visible in the image -no matter how small and insignificant (I've had initial rejections for images where I didn't even realise there were any people in the image!). I wrote a blog post about creating editorial captions which might interest anyone new to editorial images. Regards, David.
http://shootingstock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/creating-captions-for-editorial-images.html