Metadata

Metadata is essentially information about your photos such as tags, namespace, fields, etc. It can be very helpful to anyone searching to add order to their photo albums. It is a partner for making the most of your images and helps you sort and find, control authorized uses, and pinpoints them on a map to make them look their best. Metadata is to provide information about your photographs ranging from the date the picture was made and what camera was used, to what kinds of concepts the photo helps illustrate. It also helps to record image adjustments in the dark room. Tags refer to some specific property of an image file and can be attached with key words to later identify them easier. This can make it easier for me by putting everything into a sorted category which can be key in large libraries. A namespace describes the field and may limit the type of entry that can be entered. For example we are instructed to label our albums “WCAS_mo_day_yr,” a namespace can make certain field only allow this format. A collection of namespaces is called a schema which can be published by anyone. I feel like the most useful part of metadata for me in this course is knowing how to properly tag in a field as well as knowing what EXIF, XMP, and IPTC means will also help me log my photos properly.

This is Minnie, a hefty gal with lots of energy. I used the motion/sport adjustment on my DSLR to capture her quickly. She kept wanting to play and jump out of her top story cage so this was almost my only way of capturing her pretty little face. I think this photo captures her beauty and especially those big bright eyes of hers. Her body is not in the composition with respects to her figure (haha).