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Geotagging in the field

Geotagging in the field

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Geotagging in the field

So I found this beautiful location. The light is fantastic. I have been doing some shooting around here. There is no wind. The temperature is perfect. It's a great place to spend a late afternoon. I've got to tell you, I don't have the foggiest idea where I'm. The process of encoding location information into your images is called geotagging. As you probably know, every time you take a picture, your camera records metadata into the image file. That's the date and time it was shot, the shutter speed, aperture, ISO that you were using. All of those camera settings get embedded in the file. There's also room in that metadata for latitude, longitude, and altitude. Now the problem is you have to know your latitude, longitude, and altitude, and I don't even know what county I'm in right now. So, I've brought special hardware that figures out my location and allows me to geotag my images. You have a few different options if you want to do this. First, you can get a camera that has a…

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