welcome back everyone my name is Joel and today the topic is going to really be about
the information and what's called metadata in your photos all right so on one of my previous videos
I had a viewer request a video wanted to know if there was more information that photos can
provide about the photos that we take and she compared it to aperture which was Apple's pro
version of photos which is now discontinued so metadata is just the information that is about
your photograph every time you take a picture with a digital camera it kind of stamps this
information and this information holds you know what camera took the photo what lens was used
what focal length the aperture the shutter the ISO all of that technical information did the
flash turn on did it not turn on all of that information is called metadata in its stamped
onto every single photograph that you take with the digital camera now depending on some of the
software the camera that you use information can be you can have more information like GPS
information and coordinates of location but also note that if you take that photograph and put
it into software like Lightroom or capture one or some professional editing software or even photos
you can actually strip some of that metadata out but as far as the information that photos lets
you see let's go ahead and take a look at that so I'm gonna pull up some of my favorite photos
here and I'll open this one up and to find the information about a particular photo in the top
right there's a little eye if you click on that this then will show you the information about
that photo so it shows you the the model of the camera it shows the lens it shows the resolution
of what this particular photo is the file size and a little information about the the aperture
the shutter speed ISO and the focal length it shows the date and the time as well it can show
you the location if you have GPS added or you can always add it after the fact and the description
and the keyword and the title at the top are really geared for more specifically photos in
general so there is a little bit of information it's not like they don't give you anything it
gives you the information that the majority of people are probably looking for now if you don't
have Photoshop if you don't have Lightroom if you don't have capture one if you don't have
some professional software here's a workaround that I found that does show you a little bit more
information so if we take this photograph out of photos and the easiest thing to do is just
literally drag it I'm gonna drag it out and put it right on my desktop and that's actually the
same as exporting you're just taking that file and copying it to the desktop it still resides inside
of photos but now you've made a duplicate copy on your computer now if I take that photograph
and just double click on it the default photo viewer is called preview on your Mac so this
is what it opens up to notice in the top left I can see that it says preview now if I go and get
the information for the photograph in preview I can go up to tools do show inspector and this is
where it shows me that information so within this window here I have the general information the the
name of it the type of file the file size the date resolution dpi the color model if I click on the
I I have a lot more information and as I scroll down and all of these different tabs beneath it
so it does give you a little bit more information as far as the camera is concerned but I guess do
you need that information that's up to you not up to me but here's a nice little workaround if
you're looking to get more information or metadata about a particular photo and you can do it here so
that is an alternative to find more information or mudded about a photo that is not using photos
but still a default program or application on your Mac so thanks so much for watching if you
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