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In her latest despatch, our resident photo management expert Anna Togg explains why looking at the EXIF data on your images in your photo management platform can reveal new discoveries about your own photography.

EXIF strategies

To many people, EXIF data seems like a rather dull by-product of digital photography, but it can actually be a really useful springboard to more creative photography.

A while ago, for example, I was browsing through my images in my photo management platform and I started using the filters to see which images were taken with certain settings.

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It soon became clear that the vast majority of my shots were taken using the daylight, automatic and custom white balance settings.

I hardly ever used the others and it got me thinking about their creative potential, and I decided to use the tungsten setting more often.

I wasn’t planning to shoot in tungsten light, I was interested in the intense blue colourcast that comes with using the tungsten setting in daylight.

It was perfect timing because a couple of days later the weather turned cold and I got some nice chilly looking shots in the fog and frost that really cry out ‘winter’.

While the images worked well, because I shoot raw and JPEG images simultaneously I had the raw files to make ‘straight’ images from if I wanted, but in some cases I actually used them to make more intensively blue versions.

Helpfully, Adobe Bridge automatically creates filters when a folder of images is selected. If you can’t see them, put a tick next to Filter panel in the Window dropdown list.

Bridge shows filters for key camera settings such as white balance, image orientation, ISO speed rating, aperture and focal length when there is a difference between the images. If the images are all shot using the same aperture, for example, there won’t be a filter for aperture.

To apply a filter, simply click on the arrow next to filter category to see the list of options (for example, the aperture settings used) and select the ones that you want to filter for.

Browsing through EXIF data may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I urge you to try it because you’ll soon discover things that you may not have realised about your photography.

I convinced a couple of friends of mine to try it, for example, and they discovered that they hardly ever shot action using shutter speeds below 1/250sec.

It made them resolve to experiment a bit more with longer exposures to blur movement. You may find something similar, perhaps you tend to use the same aperture or focal length for most of your shots?

Maybe you always shoot landscape format images and its time to shoot a few in upright format?

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