Consider Including Exposure Settings in Your Photo Descriptions

Lately I have been seeing a lot of great photos and have wondered how they were taken. I was just wondering if people uploading photos would consider including details such as aperture and shutter speed, its usually pretty easy to find, in Windows you can just right click on a photo and look at its properties. I have also been curious in some photos if they were taken on tripods or if white balance and iso speed was adjusted.

Just a thought, don't worry about it if you find it to be too time consuming.

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Permalink Reply by Oruç Gazi Kutluer on January 10, 2008 at 2:26pm

I am totally agree with Richard, 'cos all the images shared here not just for exhibition i think.. all the photos like a lesson for the beginner photographers like me.. so it ll not take so much time i think..

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Permalink Reply by Oruç Gazi Kutluer on January 11, 2008 at 9:20am

Thanks for all the informatino Rob.. also, the story is funny :))

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Permalink Reply by Mona M on January 10, 2008 at 6:22pm

You are right Richard. This shouldn't be considered a place to just display one's work, but to be able to learn from those with more experience. What better way to get some honest critique too. Someone could look at any photo and say "Oh, here...here is where you should think about trying a different setting." I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely appreciate constructive feedback.

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Permalink Reply by Rizal on January 10, 2008 at 6:38pm

i think this web should add more engine, such as exif data reader or anything (i dont know what name). i've seen alot of photography website already did that. in my country, photography website has that exif data reader, so we can learn it by just click the photo.

Rz

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on February 20, 2008 at 12:18pm

I agree with all the has been said above, especially about exif data has so many variables available that it just isn't practical to type them all in when exif is available. one additional comment, especially for beginners because I know that all of you with experience practice "bracketing" for speed f stop, ISO etc these are available even on most of the less expensive cameras. if a photo is important to you owe it to yourself to bracket. The pros use less than 5 percent of what they shoot. Do you think that you are better than that?

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on February 20, 2008 at 2:47pm

I agree with Yurick wholeheartedly on this one but not only all the shooting data available on vitually all digital cameras, but on many you can also upload (from your computer) much additional information, such the location, time of day, who the photos were made for (valuable if you are shooting an event for example), or any other information you desire. the limitation on this varies with the make and model of camera, but manually recording this redundent on many modern cameras.