exif data

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on May 16, 2008 at 2:11pm

This was kicked around a few weeks back but never caught fire. I don't know that EXIF would be that much help, but possibly. I personally only shoot in the manual or custom modes, but PP info probably be a great deal of help as several new techniques have been appearing lately. You would probably be better served to just ask the photographer. I know that I have had several queries lately and seen the process appear in other photos.

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Permalink Reply by george shaw on May 16, 2008 at 2:33pm

however, even shooting in manual or custom modes you must have at least aperature, focal length, iso and shutter speed. I find those interesting when trying to decide if the photo has been manipulated or not and whether I am able to try those settings to get similar results.
don'tchathunk?

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on May 16, 2008 at 5:06pm

I agree with you that they may important to some people and I wish you luck in getting photographers to post exif. I personally wouldn't use it because I find it highly unlikely that I would be shooting in the exact same situation at the same scenery. I do however set ISO, shutter speeds, aperture and focal length along with white balance, saturation and contrast. my argument is that anyone who is capable of using all this information doesn't need it, they already have it. PP manipulations aren't recorded anywhere automatically that I know of but I have started recording the some pp in my titles. my code are letters after the camera code as follows a = adjust contrast and brightness, c = clean, dj = deJPEG, s = sharpen, dn = denoise, e = enlarge and Detail means I have cropped. In the unlikely event that you would like to have the EXIF from one of my photos, I'll be happy to provide all that I can, that's part of the reason that I participate in this site.

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Permalink Reply by David Wollum on May 18, 2008 at 5:09am

I totally agree, George. I doubt if there is any way to automatically capture the EXIF data when a picture is posted, but perhaps just putting these fields in as blanks we could fill in as we post our shots may encourage folks to do just that. I try to include info on the shots I post. Since I work with PS CS3 and Bridge, the data is there, all I have to do is remember to include it in my comments. The problem is recalling what I did in PS. Some of my shots go back to the year 2000, so its hard to recall what steps I took during the manipulation process. Having said that, I will add that I'll do it if you will... hehe... so there ya go. Oh yeah... and I think folks should use the map location option as well. For me, it just increases my interest to know WHERE the shot was taken.

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Permalink Reply by george shaw on May 18, 2008 at 7:40am

you got it dave. the exif data and all pp manipulations will be comin' at yah.
taking good photos is often as much about knowing your camera and its limitations/capabilities as anything, and if a shot is taken on auto or program or some other automatic setting, without taking the time to understand what the camera is doing it makes it difficult to replecate the camera's technical capability (does this make sense?)
commentary on pp process will come later.
have a great day.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Wilson on May 19, 2008 at 4:10pm

I think that some very basic information could be useful, such as:
Focal length
Exposure: Shutter speed, aperture.
Filtration: polarizer, split neutral density, softar, color correction (Some of us still shoot film)
Tripod: yes or no
ISO speed
Off camera flash(s)
There is a lot more to photography than than reading a histogram.

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Permalink Reply by jadeast on May 19, 2008 at 4:16pm

Wow! I had completely forgotten about Split ND filters and Graduated ND filters. thank you Tom

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Permalink Reply by george shaw on May 19, 2008 at 5:00pm

+well tom, I think that the things you suggested would certainly make for a better learning atmosphere. Now all we need to know is whether the site administrators have the ability/desire to make it so.

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Permalink Reply by Reza on June 21, 2008 at 11:20am

There is actually a way for seeing EXIF data in some of the photos uploaded into Picture Social (hence SOME), but it only works with digital images, not film or scanned images and this method is kind of intrusive because it's without the owner's consent (well you can ask the owner's permission to look at the EXIF data at a particular image to make it less intrusive). I noticed that a lot of people here uploaded their photos straight from their camera without editing it, and this should make it easy.

What you have to do is to open the full version of the image (by clicking the image from the page), save it to your computer. Once it saved, right click on it and click properties. On properties window, click on Summary tab and if it's in simple view, click on advanced. If it's already in advanced view then there's the EXIF information. The information given is pretty comprehensive, that's including camera's type and I know George that you're using Olympus E-510 (I wasn't peeking at your profile when I wrote this but from your EXIF info from one of your photos), lol! I found this way also works with some of the edited photos =)

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Permalink Reply by george shaw on June 22, 2008 at 2:01pm

thanks reza. I am familiar with the process you described and have used it when I have been particularly interested on how a shot was accomplished.
However, if the exif data was evident on the photo, those less experienced and trying to learn, would be able to access the info easily, and thereby be encouraged to maybe explore their camera more completely rather than their computer.
Anything to encourage better photography methinks.
Have a great day.

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Permalink Reply by David Wollum on June 23, 2008 at 1:30am

uh-huh... or we could all add our exif data when we post a pic...

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Permalink Reply by vjekoslav antic on June 23, 2008 at 2:03am

http://www.photome.de/download_en.html On this site is free exif data software and plugin for FirefoxMozilla browser.When open picture in browser then with right click open menu and choice option "open with PhotoMe".You will see exif data,only when exif data be erased for purpose then see nothing.I have one more stand alone program exiftool (it is free).No need installation,only drag picture on exiftool icon and you will see everything was don in camera and post processing program.Include how much is set white balance,saturation,clarity,shadows,filters,highlights,noise and sharpening.

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