in this episode I'll show you how you can use the meta-data in Lightroom
improve your photography skills Adorama TV presents
exploring photography with Mark Wallace
bring human innovative techniques on shooting a wide range of $800
use your host Mark Wallace hi everybody welcome to another episode of exploring
photography right here on
Adorama TV well what are the questions like get a lot
is which lens should I buy that better
the mic kit lens in fact I was talking about this to another photographer that
I know named Jared Platt
and he has a method that he talked to me about that i think is amazing
and that's using the data in Lightroom the metadata all the stuff that comes
up your photos
to figure out which lend you should buy when you're upgrading
and as we're talking I discovered that there are some things you could do that
mandated that can help out in addition to answering that question in fact you
can use this method to figure out things like
is there a problem with my workflow or I am I stuck in a rut with certain lenses
are aperture values are there some blind spots in my photography that I don't
know about
so we're gonna take this methodology that I learned from Jared I'm gonna put
it into practice arena dive into Lightroom
and figure out if there's a way that we can improve our photography
using data let's first take a look at this meta data and how you get to it
inside
Lightroom and this is that you've all versions have Lightroom I'm like 95
right now
important thing is over on the left hand side make sure that you choose
all photographs because we want to look at our entire catalog
when people look at the aggregate data in a in other words all the data server
rolled up into
lump sums so make sure you choose all photographs years he get all the data
from all the photographs that are in your library course you can filter that
for some reason if you need to you
but we're going to look at everything right now and the other thing is at the
very top %uh Lightroom
there are these four little words your text attribute meta-data and nine
will look at meta data so at nine does if we clicked at this river races
anything he may have set up
and the general used for filtering data are filtering photos
so for example is say I wanna find a video that I shot with the 5d Mark II
well I can go into the metadata and then I have these little
fields here that I can choose so by default there's date in camera and some
other thing so let's go in here not use
instead of dade what I want to do is I wanna look at file type:
and then I can look in here and say video and then
over here and get camera setup and so I've got five different cameras
now look at this one right here this is the 5d Mark II
and so when I zoom out here all the videos I shot with the 5d Mark II
and then we can open up this picture here and sure enough
here is a little video that was shot with that 5d Mark II
it makes it really easy to find and images and videos and things like that
so that's normally how this is used
as you use the meta-data to locate things and so what we want to do though
is to lose this meditated help teach us
about a blind spots and to help us understand the gear that we use and
maybe some
upgrade paths that we have and so for example nice talkin JR he was saying
that there are a lot of people that wanted to know
which lands they should upgrade and so well here is I'm going to click nine
here
just open this up so I have all of my images again
are clicked on meta-data know what I'm gonna do here is
amigo and and say well what i really wanna do
is critical look at this image I have this
came right here this is the Canon Rebel T3I to care that our shoot a lot but I'm
choosing a camera
because it would emulate let's say I had a am so beginning photographer
I had a and entry-level camera with the kit lens
and i really wanna figure out what kit lens do I use
the most and how do I use it so I know what
upgrade from them by a little bit higher quality lens
and so my choosing this I A see some other things over here
I've chosen lends and sell you can choose all kinds of things but I'm gonna
choose lens
and then I can see all the lenses that were used with my Rebel
and then I have some counts over here so I can see which lenses
I'm using most and noticed that the FS
18-55 I've used two hundred and ten times as the 1 I've used them more than
anything else
is this one and then the second by its or the distant second is my 24-70
at San Ln so that's a fancy lens and then I've got my 18-200
et cetera and I got my 1223 100
so let's figure out how my using this kit lens
to help me understand wetlands I might want to upgrade to
so what all do here so many choose this lens
and and also I'm choosing these the view is being filtered so this is
all the images from a rebel and they're using this lens that's showing up down
here
but what I see is 90 the camera and I know the lands
let's see what focal links I'm using amazing the 18 on your side the 15
five-millimeter side my zooming in zooming out how my using this
so I do is I can go in now and shoes focal length:
in San now I can see all the different focal links
that I've used am I looking through these I can see which ones are the most
popular for me
and look one jumps out immediately so this right here 55 millimetres
I V use that 86 times and everything else is
tenor last minute 13 less obviously I'm using
the long into the lens almost always
with this lens and so what I would do next is say okay
found using a fifty five millimeter into this lens are most at the time
what would happen if I look at Lanza had more than fifty five millimeter my even
going on
so well I click on this from this is a 24-70
and I look at that I'm using the 55
a little bit but look at seventy am using more than anything else
so again I'm going to the long and even this lens
what about a really long lens we have to have him here seventy three hundred
million years that's a
kit lens him in a cycle through that look I'm only using net at 200
millimetres
when I look at my 123 100 I'm using that at 269 millimeters
so you can see there all the lenses that I'm using
I tend to shoot at the long in at the lands
and this right here look at this I used one shot 80 millimetres
for shot a 22 in everything else 24
shot a used to 200 millimetres checked 18 to 70
and you see that when I you serve across the boards that was pretty easy
to see their well have you serve everything in that lands
so the result this would tell me that all the lenses I'm using
I tend to go all the way and zoom in as much as possible and all my lenses
so if I'm going to spend money on a nicer lands
and then when I would probably need to do is look at that seventy two hundred
millimeter range
and I challenge because that looks like that's the way I'm shooting
neck and help me make that decision I saw the other in Rome using on the kit
lens is I'm shooting mostly at the wide angle part in the lens
well I can use the white England's so that's one thing that I love about
midday you can dig in CE
how you're shooting but the other thing you can do with meta-data
and this is i think the genius part in this as you can expose blind spots that
you have for example
what if I wanted to know I'm where I shoot
and Sam is gonna ask the question where is it that I shoot I don't know
like what location physical location issue let me go on here instead choosing
camera
I'm gonna go in here and choose location
and look i've got Bangla India and in business park and ignore that is in
Hell's Kitchen and Steph actress Tia
and muster these no location 17,800 an ATM ages in this catalogue
and this by the way is my small item catalog have no
I location information which means I'm not doing a very good job
and putting location information on my images
so that's a blind spot made in realize that I am not really putting
stuff in here very much can also look at City
so look at that well now we have new york in Phoenix and Tempe in unknown
so I'm just curious when I shot here now coolness
here's a shot for this is an iPhone shot at me and James not we were my heroes
miss a shot in Hell's Kitchen after this is at the Javits Center
a few years ago and so you know you can use this to serve
understand all kinds of things are right now I just learned
man I need to do a better job with location
data let's look at some other blind spots and see if we can discover some
other things and I'm not doing so well
so let's go in here in a min ago also I'm seeing everything
still have City I'm gonna do here is let's look at
and 00 let's take a look at are
aspect ratio why would i look at the aspect ratio well let's look and see
the kinds of images that issue well I as she predominately landscape images
and is that makes sense well for this catalog it does because this catalog is
used
exclusively for Adorama TV videos and videos
are horizontal no words landscape and so I'm she primary landscape
with my at library that were for models
not you would see that most of them would be in portrait orientation to that
make sense
so there's no blind spot there that makes total sense to me
an what about this have let's go in and look at some dates
hey love just diving into this to go in here with a look at some dates
civility date and i wanna look at
images from 2010 in forward
so 2010 11 12 and 13 so that's pretty much
when I've been shooting and Ronit GV
what I want to know is which cameras am I using a lot of people say you know
what you only issue with Canon cameras are you
only issue with Nikon cameras were happening ever use you know this brand
of camera
let's just see well it turns out that I've used 31 different cameras
when I've been shooting for at around the TV so we've got a lot of cannons
so we've got the 5D Mark 376 TD the rebels
I the 1D Mark for 1DS Mark to we've got these guys here
and so this is a me a camera in history here
and looking on the right hand side this is a Panasonic cameras with others he
gets
iPhone pictures got some sony's you've got a lot on Nikon's
times and icons in here to Sigma got my Fujifilm
X-Pro1 X10 and so you can see that
we try to keep it pretty even regardless of what people say
so we checked that to say hey and we're shooting equal amounts
different cameras looks like we are but which camera summer shooting most
hear something I found it very interesting so then Nikon D3S if the
shot 4,000 75 images for this
for Adorama TV the d4 Lee 544
and this was interesting because at d should be backwards I should've been
shooting a lot more thirty forts and your camera
but and I told Mike on this I think the D3S is a better camera than the D4 even
though it's in your camera
it in like it when I said that but actually
ass stuck with my D3S and I got great results so that makes sense to me
what about the cannons well yes cannons it looks like I haven't shot as much
with that
so the 1DS Mark you is the clear winner but less than 2000 so it looks like less
than half
images have been shot with my Canon in with my Nikon
networks pretty well but if I add in all the dates
we look at this then we see a different picture altogether
and you can see that whales have been here now that zips up to
5,000 images with my Canon
and about 4,000 with like on Sat you know a lot of the images that a shot
previously are being used to watch still trying to be consistent so that makes
sense
but what about this let's say I wanna to learn a little bit about
my strengths and weaknesses so when I'm an idiot I ask myself a different
question
which aperture values and do I use
with photos that I choose another suppose that a pic
they I flagged so I can do a second start to combine things I can get this
attributes I can click flag and that's going to show me the images that are
flagged as good
to calcutta lightning pictures and things like that and then I can go into
meta-data
so it's still has all the flag pictures only making filter even more
so many going here too aperture value
and so this is up here right here we have aperture
so I'll choose aperture and then I can look at these counts to see where my
shooting
and so 1.2 that forty four pictures look at this 2.8
than just stands out that 231 images
and that are I 2.8 images
now is it through here we've got some other ones we see 56 starts at standout
light why 56
well looks like these are the kit lens is so that's about as wide as these
lenses will go so I'm seeing this pattern why I really enjoy the wide
open apertures that nice challenge at the field and then
an 11 and 13 year about equal that's because the studio photography NO on
their
look at this resort appear to the 2022 range
not very many pictures at all and so you can see that I'm not using
a closed an aperture really very much at all
and so that's something that shows me that I needed
maybe diet starts shooting for a greater depth of field to try to get more scenic
photography
and so I can look at and say is that true do i do any senior photography
well let's try this scenic photography is usually used with a wide angle lens
something go back here all in the world is a change this to lands
and let's just look do I have a wide angle lenses that I'm using
in it looks like rising in on this
in a wide angle lens area and these are sort of the
kit lenses as well but look they're not very many
image is this right here this is a very expensive lens at lee in 48 pictures
forty-eight Larry had marked as good
and I can say and do that
so even at only 279 all the pictures I've ever taken
have this lens being used and I know I bought this lens because I was inspired
by James not be the guy showed you earlier
and so it looks like I'm not get my money's worth a need to shoot more with
that lands and not really shooting as much as I could
and when i look through these look at these are all people pictures people and
dogs people in dogs
got some lightning shots people pictures people pictures people pictures
I have a huge black hole in my photography which is
I don't you very much scenic photography here's a shot that a shower that lens in
the Redwoods
I love it so that's a black a blind spot to me
I'm not getting outside and shooting enough scenic photography I can goes
through a look at some other these
the shots and you can see here's the sweet spot for me
the 70-200 millimeter lenses are carrying the weight of almost everything
so I can see that I need to do more with my whiting the lenses because I'm just
not
getting your right let's look at one more thing and it will be done with this
and so let's look take a look at another meta-data an
things I have no more attributes here to look at all of my knee
a photos and when I wanna do is I wanna see
what is the treatment that I'm using so this is
the treatment to say are these color are these black and white
and you can see that I'm not really processing my images
as black and white I'll have a hundred eighty
images that are actually process black-and-white in Photoshop the rest of
my probably just used
the D century since lighter so I could do a better job
with that and so there are all kinds really interesting photos here some
these were from
our recent episodes a veteran TV's really cool now here's one I really like
this is me getting hit in the face with a water balloon
lamb are that matter to them it's crazy okay
so we've got that here's my profile picture you can see how that works
so it looks like any do has more experimentation on the treatments
I'm using the other thing I want to do is let's look
at instead of treatment let's look and see if we can look
at are develop preset so in here we've got to develop reset
and this is going to tell me one other thing about my workflow the is a
possible
problem so I got all these presets they've created
so we've got a royal blue that I created for one and rum it episodes
we've got this brown blue splitting adapter split toning
got all these different things here March black and white magic
the photo booth stuff that we set up a pointed for both but look at this we
have all these
unavailable presets and available preset what is that well let me click on one
and we can see now what these images are here is like 13 images
some CDs are really highly saturated images so wet these are these are
presets that I've created
in a different and but they'll be Lightroom catalog
probably on my laptop or a different computer night at imported from that
catalog
but didn't bring the preset over with it and so I need to do is kill
on my laptop for my other workstation in grab some others preset that are created
import those entered this Lightroom catalog so I have those to be used for
a for other images or I could just go to the developed model
can create a preset based on this image that could be easier
as well I see I got some gaps in my workflow
in Sin Eater an fix my develop presets so they don't create one on one computer
and miss it on the other so they're all kinds of things here that we're
discovering from our meta-data
in my challenge he is do this go in and ask yourself questions
start slicing and dicing the data and see where you're doing great
in where you need help in where you're blind to some other things that you may
not be doing well either in Lightroom
or in your photography file I learned a few things about myself that I didn't
know I need to do a better job
my tagging Angie locations in key word in all kinda stuff
and I also need to practice a little bit more my wide angle lenses and so
help you can use this methodology to improve your skills as a photographer
and even
answer those questions and what your should I get next to happen data to back
that up
remember if you don't have Lightroom guided by that
at Adorama why not you can order it online or zip into the store
we have those in stock and remember this stuff and I showed you today works in
all versions have Lightroom so this meta data stuff has been around
since the very very beginning %uh Lightroom and if you want to learn more about
Lightroom in photography and different skills make sure is a over to the
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