When submitting a photo please also submit settings (1 Viewer)

JSER · Jul 28, 2011

Can I ask if, where possible anyone submitting a photograph to the site could also post the exposure settings, easily obtained from photoshop etc.

Whilst people happily state the camera and lens CanonXXX, surely more important for us "learners" would be the settings themselves.

Like many I would rather know perhaps say Canon/Nikon DSLR, 290mm on zoom lens, handheld, 400asa, late afternoon, 450th at f4.5.

Thanks

HokkaidoStu · Jul 29, 2011

JSER said:
Can I ask if, where possible anyone submitting a photograph to the site could also post the exposure settings, easily obtained from photoshop etc.

Whilst people happily state the camera and lens CanonXXX, surely more important for us "learners" would be the settings themselves.

Like many I would rather know perhaps say Canon/Nikon DSLR, 290mm on zoom lens, handheld, 400asa, late afternoon, 450th at f4.5.

Thanks

Most browsers have an exif reader (for example this), just right click on an image and it'll show you all you need to know.

Personally I'm far too lazy to find and post my settings unless it's in the image critique section.

JSER · Jul 29, 2011

It's just that I like others (surely) see a good photo here and wonder, what asa was he using or what shutter speed, I'll try that.

HokkaidoStu · Jul 29, 2011

JSER said:
It's just that I like others (surely) see a good photo here and wonder, what asa was he using or what shutter speed, I'll try that.

Like I said, the exif viewer will allow you to do that. It'll show all the settings used. Here's a photo I took last week, if you install an exif viewer just right click on it and it'll show all the settings.

Firefox and Safari both have exif viewers, not sure about Internet Explorer.

Overread · Jul 29, 2011

Opera even comes with the EXIF reader installed by default

Though it should be said that not all photos have EXIF attached (saving for web, for example strips out EXIF) whilst sometimes EXIF can lie (eh a teleconverter not reporting itself).

mr_birdman · Jul 30, 2011

I think if you save for web in photoshop the exif data gets taken out. I always save for web myself. It's not that much of an effort to state the main things like camera, lens, iso, shutter speed, aperture and exposure compensation surely?

Although one thing to keep in mind is that since I shoot to the right I will most likely submit the info for exp comp at the time of capture, not when corrected during post process.

Macswede · Jul 30, 2011

mr_birdman said:
I think if you save for web in photoshop the exif data gets taken out.

You can change the settings so it doesn't get taken out, at least in CS4.

Macswede · Jul 30, 2011

HokkaidoStu said:
Most browsers have an exif reader (for example this), just right click on an image and it'll show you all you need to know.

Thanks a million, Stu! Works perfectly.

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