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 Rob Jaudon on January 1, 2008 at 8:08am: I would agree. I have failed badly at this.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Deadsea 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..; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Rob Jaudon on January 10, 2008 at 6:12pm

Here you go....I shot this one on a really cloudy day. Zero sun. It was located in a local park that I run at. There is a gravel path that runs through a somewhat of a floodplain/spill way. The area is heavily wood and not a good place to be standing around in the summer months due to the mosquitoes. In certain areas there are opening because all the trees had died out. This was located in one of those areas and I have ran past this thing about 100 times. I was out on an adventure with my daughter just looking for something unusual to shoot. I found it. I will be going back to take some more photos in different light for sure. I shot this on a tripod with shutter delay to try and make it as sharp as I could.

When I took the photo, I thought it would be a great color photos due to all the rust but with all the dead grass it did not come out the way I wanted. So I flipped it to black and white.

NIKON D80
1/8 sec
f 5.6
ISO 100
Focal Length 22mm
Time Taken 5:05PM

So what do you think?

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Permalink Reply by Deadsea on January 11, 2008 at 9:20am: Thanks for all the informatino Rob.. also, the story is funny :)); ▶ Reply to This

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.; ▶ Reply to This

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.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Jaudon on January 11, 2008 at 11:57am: John,

Great point about the D80...I am a proud owner . I went through Ken Rockwell's guide many times on all the settings. It is a good guide that explains everything in a way a dummy like myself can understand.; ▶ Reply to This

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?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Trish on February 20, 2008 at 1:13pm: Also think this is an awesome idea, definately a good way to learn! And you are right there are some really incredible shots on this site, and it would be nice to know what the details were on them... BUT on the other hand all the processing that may go into to the photo afterwards in PS or any other application.. makes the other info fairly irrelevant
... just my point of view :-); ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff on February 20, 2008 at 2:03pm: This is a repost of my earlier comments with corrections.
Although I do agree that Exposure settings are important and I have picked upa few tips like carrying a note book to write the exposure and settings down. I think you have to consider that there are some like me that are new to photgraphy and the settings a confussing. I know I am still learning my camera, and the f-stops etc are still greek to me. I think that you also must consider that there may be those who contrubite to site might have a low end camera that doesn't give you that information. I know when I became interested in photgraphy I bought a basic digital camera until I know that I was going to stick with it, reather then waste money on expensive equiptment and let it collect dust in closet. As for the right click in Widows all the information I get is the basic information as to the date and size of the photo. I do agree that this site should be more then just a place to post photos. I also think that the above facts are also a consideration; ▶ Reply to This

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.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Dek on February 22, 2008 at 12:26am: great idea , but you could always ask, right? after all its picture social, we socialized :); ▶ Reply to This