On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... To be honest, I've never understand why people write this information >> down >> after the event, and especially why they publish this information with their >> pictures. I can't see how anyone else can benefit - I've never looked at a >> photograph and wondered what aperture and shutter speed was used, and I've >> no idea what to do with the information when people provide it. ... > > Once upon a time I used to log film, aperture and shutter data as an > educational tool. I stopped doing it pretty quickly and never did it > again. > > Nowadays I post "tech info" with my photos to flickr for the benefit > of the photo equipment geekery that people like to see, but I strip it > from metadata (unless I'm posting an image to answer a metadata > question) and never post it to photos I put in my portfolio website. I > never look at it on others' photos either.
I like the digital pen suggestion and the list manager app suggestion. I'll probably stick with the plain old notepad app on the iphone. I suppose this whole iphone thing _is_ terribly technologically overkill for the problem at hand, but it just so happens that I actually carry this thing every where I go (to a fault!). Carrying an additional journal and pencil would be 2 more things to schlep around. I was thinking some more about what I hoped to gain by noting this stuff down and I came up with 2 answers: 1) I want to be able to look at a photo and be able to learn from my mistakes (primarily if the DoF is good or not). 2) I want to get a better feeling for my different lenses. I've got a handful of normals, a couple longs, and a couple wides. I'll never remember which lens I used for a given photo unless I take a note. Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. --------------------------- Sam PS, I do have and use a K-x, but I thought it would be fun to use the old taks on their original bodies and experience a nice big view-finder. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
