wow! how long has exif data been available by clicking the info button on the photos? can’t tell if i like this, but objectively, very cool…
I don’t mind it, but as someone who makes her living off photography do you feel like this is giving away a portion of your intellectual property (akin to revealing a trade secret you’ve worked hard to perfect)?
Eh, that was kind of the initial feeling but after about 30 seconds I realized that was kind of stupid. These settings and things just suggest that I, you know, properly exposed the photo. :) And it’s kind of nice for me to see what I used to create the image since I rarely look that up later. The real magic is just in composition and editing, which thankfully EXIF data can’t relate. :) Would only be bad if it proved I was stupid and did something like a super high ISO with an 8000th second exposure, thus proving I was kind of dumb in creating the image and missed the opportunity to create an optimal one.
There are lots of plugins for browsers that make it easy to view EXIF data in photos. Plenty of professional photographers will happily tell you all the dialed in settings for any photo they’ve taken including not only exposure settings on camera but power levels and what modifiers were used on flashes as well. If that’s all it took to recreate the images we’d live in a bizarre world.
If you really value the privacy of your EXIF data, you need to clean the file before you upload it.
