Exploring Our Metadata

I’ve written before about my feelings on transparency in photography—I don’t believe in hiding my photos’ metadata or my approach to photography…there’s no “secret sauce” here, just an honest approach to depicting the world as I see it.

To that end, I’ve recently rolled out a couple of updates to 75CentralPhotography.

First, you can now click on any item in either a photo’s EXIF data or location data and see all photos that were either shot with that photo’s lens/camera/f-stop/ISO/whatever or all photos shot in that photo’s location/city/state/country.

You could sort-of do this before, but that approach relied on WordPress’, our publishing platform, search functionality, which wasn’t great and would return false results on occasion. The new implementation will return all photos that match that piece of metadata, as we’re now tracking that in a way that makes querying easier and more-reliable without false matches.

We also have added charts that track the usage of all cameras and lenses, so you can see how many photos were shot with each camera that we’ve used over the years or which lens was employed.

You can chart camera here and lenses here.

Questions? Comments? Concerns?