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22-05-2009, 10:46 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Preston in NW
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| | | Viewing Photo Data
Theres a picture of woodruff which I am quite pleased with. You can see the white scales of the petals and the background is blurred out. Is there any way to look at the settings I used on my camera at the time of taking the photograph? This is how I want my orchid photos to come out or even sharper 
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Originally Posted by KeenTeen17  I have noticed that some woodruff plants near me are a really bright green colour whereas the ones in wilder locations are just a normal green. Is there any reason for this?   | Quote:
Originally Posted by KeenTeen17 Thanks Ian. The one on the left is my photo but the other one came from the Gallery. The one on the left is how I want my orchid photos to come out, showing the texture of the petals etc. Is there any way I can look at the aperture and setting which I used on the camera at the time ?  | |
22-05-2009, 10:52 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Scotland
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
If you shoot in RAW the information is saved, which you can view easily. 
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22-05-2009, 11:15 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Belvedere, Kent
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
There are two ways KT.
The first is to use windows explorer to find the image file, right click on it and select "Properties" from the pop-up menu. Go to the "Summary" tab and click on the advanced button. You will see something like this... 
You can see that you used 55mm as your focal length, you didn't use flash and you were shooting at 1/200th of a second, f10 and ISO 200. You were in Aperture Priority and using Centre Weighted metering.
Another way to do it, that you can use to see the shooting details of most people's images in the Gallery is to install an EXIF viewer. I use Opanda which is free and you should find with a simple Google search. You need to be viewing the full size image in the Gallery and then right click it and select "View EXIF/GPS/IPTC" from the pop-up menu. This is what the result looks like for your woodruff image... 
It shows more info than Windows Explorer but probably nothing extra that you'd be particularly interested in. Some people's uploads to the Gallery don't include EXIF data but I'm not sure why. I think it depends on which image editor they use to save it.
Dave P.
P.s. I've just spotted that the Opanda EXIF Viewer shows you had dialled in -1/3rd of a stop negative exposure compensation. I don't think windows would have told you that.
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22-05-2009, 04:43 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
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Originally Posted by ron1863 If you shoot in RAW the information is saved, which you can view easily. | EXIF information is also saved in JPG files. |
22-05-2009, 07:44 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
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Originally Posted by charlieb EXIF information is also saved in JPG files. | IIRC unless it's saved for web, when the EXIF data gets stripped.
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22-05-2009, 08:13 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford IIRC unless it's saved for web, when the EXIF data gets stripped.
Jim | Aha! You may have nailed it Jim. I've never understood why most people's uploads still have EXIF data but some don't. If they're using "Save for web" that would explain it...
Dave P.
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22-05-2009, 10:17 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford IIRC unless it's saved for web, when the EXIF data gets stripped. | Depends entirely on the program used - JPGs straight from a camera have EXIF information embeded in them - some later on-computer processing may remove this (although it really shouldn't unless asked to  ). |
23-05-2009, 04:13 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
Thanks presld2 for the info
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23-05-2009, 07:30 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: S. Devon
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
It all varies between programmes and formats.
Generally speaking, a photo saved in the camera as a jpeg then edited by one of the normal editing programmes and saved as a jpeg should retain EXIF data. Even if you resize for the web using your normal resizing tools (I never do this automatically).
But if I shoot raw (which is normal for me) then convert to tiff, edit and export to another folder, still as a tiff, my software loses all the EXIF data. |
23-05-2009, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Geoff F But if I shoot raw (which is normal for me) then convert to tiff, edit and export to another folder, still as a tiff, my software loses all the EXIF data. | RAW formats don't actually contain EXIF data - the data are all stored differently between the formats by Canon, Nikon etc. which may explain why your TIFF "loses" the data (because the source doesn't contain any!). |
24-05-2009, 08:46 PM
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| | | Re: Viewing Photo Data
Yes it is full of strange anomolies. If I upload a RAW file with Canon DPP it has full EXIF data when viewed with DPP. After conversion to TIFF, DPP still shows full info but other programmes have limited data. And after editing with another programme and exporting to a different folder (but still TIFF) all EXIF is lost.
However, if I resave the edited image to the original unedited TIFF file the basic info is still there.
And when shot in JPEG the basic EXIF remains no matter what I do with that file.
When viewed with ACDSee I am able to add more information but it can only be read by that programme.
Like so much of computer technology, software manufacturers use their own formats which aren't compatable with each other. It's a good job they aren't running a railway! | | |
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