Chapter 13. File Naming, Keywords, and Important Metadata
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
—RALPH MARSTON
Today’s cameras may be able to focus faster and calculate light more accurately than we can, but when it comes to adding intuitive and memorable information about the captured files, they need our help. Fortunately, we’re not starting from scratch. Most cameras automatically add a significant amount of data to the file, including when the image was taken; the camera make, model, and lens that were used to capture the image; and even such camera settings as f-stop, aperture, and ISO. But if we are going to be able to find these images days, months, and years from now, we should take the time to include a few additional bits ...
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