Thank God for metadata.
I’m doing my best to adapt. I have a new host for this site and new software to adjust things and a new theme which wants to adjust things FOR me and very little time to devote to making all of this work.
It’s the little things that drive one crazy. The photo on the left REFUSED to come in as a vertical. It was shot as a vertical, appears in all other programs as a vertical, and I have wasted 20 minutes trying to figure out how to rotate it using WordPress! There seems to be three levels of editing for photos and it took me that long to find the third level and realize that the universal symbol for rotate is used in this program to Undo and Redo the last change. They have dreamed up a NEW symbol for rotatation and it ONLY appears on the third level of editing…if you can find the button that takes you there! I’m a very patient bulldog….and I love a good puzzle…howeverr………………
I chose this photo which was shot with my iPhone to illustrate a point. I had forgotten when I shot this, where I shot it, and even what the subject was. Metadata to the rescue. Every digital photo has a little “sidecar” file which tells all kinds of valuable information about the photo: date, time, what camera was used, f/stop, shutter speed, etc. Some newer cameras even tell where the photo was taken using GPS coordinates! This is good and bad, but sometimes, especially for old duffers like me, a nudge from the metadata brings me the information my memory didn’t want to reveal.
Cathy’s comment now that she is registered.
I’m here!
And when you moderate, you may delete these! 🙂
Thanks, Margie.
Ok…….so with the metadata at hand…..where was it taken and what is all the fun little detail stuff?
It was taken a Worner Center on the Colorado College Campus looking up from the basement stairs at 6:26 p.m., 1/12/12. There are 13 tabs of information using Adobe Photoshop CS5…way too much to reference here, however, here is a snippet: It was taken with an Apple iPhone 4, f/2.8 at 1/25 sec., 2592 x 1936 pixels at 72 dpi resolution in the sRGB colorspace, with an ISO of 80 and a focal length of 3.9 mm.