Field notes for the curious eye.
Understand the small details that travel with your photographs.
Your photo remembers more than you think.
The camera settings, dates and hidden details that travel with an image.
Share the view. Keep the location.
A practical look at GPS metadata and what cleaning a photo can—and cannot—hide.
EXIF, IPTC, XMP. What’s the difference?
Three kinds of metadata, three different parts of your photo’s story.
Why is my photo’s EXIF missing?
Check the file, the export and the metadata fields before drawing conclusions.
How to check a cleaned photo before you share it.
A repeatable read, clean and reopen workflow—with an honest explanation of what a clean report means.
How to turn off photo location on iPhone and Android
Stop new photos from recording where they were taken, remove location from the ones you already have, and check the result.
Do social apps remove photo metadata? Test it yourself
Platforms handle uploads differently and change over time. Here is why you cannot assume, and a repeatable way to check.
How to read ISO, aperture and shutter speed from a photo
What each setting does, how the three trade off against each other, and how to learn from the numbers stored in your own pictures.
HEIC and JPEG metadata: what changes when you convert an iPhone photo
iPhone photos are often HEIC. Learn how to read their metadata, what conversion may change, and how to compare the two files yourself.
A metadata checklist before you sell or share a photo
Which fields can identify you or your gear, which are worth keeping, and a short routine for checking a photo before it leaves your hands.