long post, but i feel guilty and want to explain myself. i'm not a weirdo or a creeper, well maybe a little, but harmless. I am also a member of a photography forum. people ask how to improve their pictures, and people look at the settings which are encoded into the picture and are quickly able to tell you what settings are wrong and where you need to improve.
along with your camera settings, some newer cameras and most mobile
devices (cell phones) capture the location as well.
if you are pulling pictures straight from your computer, all of the info that your camera is equipped to take in and is turned on (geo locating for iphone users) will be able to be seen by others. if you go
through a third party photo sharing web site, the info diminishes. there is still some info available.
in the following photograph, a person was questioning their photography skills and or their camera. i copied the picture to my iphoto album and looked at the details so i could let them know how they could improve on their skills.
it even sounds creepy to me.
in the upper right hand corner, you can see where it shows the camera, the camera settings, the date and EXACT time it was taken. no harm no foul.
in this photo of my wife and i, and our mutt. we are vacationing in,,, well you will find out later. again in the upper right hand corner of the picture, it gives even greater detail of the settings of the device and its settings. notice there isn't an "assigned place". i have that turned off on my photography camera.
in this photo you can see what the picture was taken with, date and time, and now notice in the lower right???? location. everyone can see this if you put pictures straight from your computer to a thread, such as this. its not that big of a deal that its showing the pin-drop on Fort Meyers Beach, you still don't know where i was. right?
in this photo you could see where someone could start to get worried about people knowing where they are by the lower right hand corner of the pic.
yes, the one with the blue roof, the one where the pin-drop is literally 15feet from the porch of the house where i took the picture. and you know the coordinance now, so you could even look at it from street view from google earth. this one is not on the street so you cant do that, but you get the point.
this wasn't done with any "special" programs, this is straight from my unaltered iphoto library.
P.S. that is an ego 1100 twist with a wicked clearo in my pocket. not anymore
