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Monday, August 31, 2015, 6:40:06 PM

So, if you into Photography, and have been for years?
You're into 'f.stops' 'exposure times' 'apertures' 'focal lengths'
'ISO speed' 'flash on/off' 'fill flash' 'camera makers' 'lens manufacturers'
and now in digital, a lot more terms and geek speak.

I see a couple of pix, every so often that are good to better than average
I wonder what the MetaData is?
having to ask every time is a bit painful, no?

Why show metadata?
well one pic of a subject at 1/60 f32, may show great depth of field but be over exposed, f32 is near as high as you can go, decreasing that to f22 is going to increase the over exposure, bad move.
so we increase the shutter speed from 1/60 to 1/125? or 1/250.

a shot is failing focus across the depth of the subject?
aperture or f/stop
yes increasing or decreasing f/stop affects the shutter speed, but if it is clarity you want, or lack there of, you dial a particular f/stop, and compensate with shutter speed.

why is my pic grainy? what ISO .... 3200 ISO and even 6400 ISO are feasible now days and thats why you picture is grainy.

summary: if meta data is posted novices can learn from it, and old dogs still learn a few tricks too, plus they don't have to ask what did you use? It would be nice to see that option included inside this site, as all pix travel uploaded with metadata, I have no shame sharing mine

now
2 photographers were in a mall, one stopped in front of a busker to listen, the other went on.
It was a long time before the first caught up too the second. and the second asked the first: "Well what did you give him?"
The first proudly exclaimed: "Why it was 1/125th @ f16"

Waffle complete

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Bubbles	1-Sep-15 1:47:21 But would it stop people posting web pics if they knew they could take the foto themselves ? ;)

Fstop	2-Sep-15 20:57:22 Probably not, but a copyright in metadata would! A genuine photographer would more than likely be willing to share the Metadata as other photographers are more than genuinely interested in gear/settings ETC. for continual improvement of their own work. Also at times one can see a photographer that is trying to improve their technique, but may benefit from a few pointers? Asking each time becomes a pain? If the pic is from a compact, there are ways to adjust settings to achieve quite different results, or from a DSLR a myriad of ways around the dilemma of why are my pix not that good or from an Iphone good luck with that, I have no idea how to tweak anything with a phone, not that phones can not take excellent pix too, I just dont go near tech issues with phones. I think if you are genuinely interested in photography and how to do it, you do get mixed up in tech part of it. One shot I took many many years ago was in a canyon where the sun shone in for only 10 minutes a day, standing waist deep in water, tripod wedged up against the canyon wall, the slowest shutter to expose 100ASA Celluloid was never going to cut it, Bulb was the only option, but how much bulb? well it was 62 seconds calculated from a mathematical formulae that I once knew but now have forgotten how to do :( That canyon was 12 hours by road from home, and no preview of image captured until developed. Yes now days there is instant development/preview but some things still wont work, why? It maybe as simple as put your camera away from 9am to 3pm the light is too HARSH, come back at 4pm? or try to improve that harsh midday sun if you are going A to B and can't return at a softer light hour. Sharing is Caring :D

Fstop's blog post - Photography ?

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