Exif data, does it help, do you need it shown?

[Marsu42]

Marsu, I like the plugin idea - I think I've seen some photos like that out there.

It's also a good way to embed the headline and caption into the shots or into an added border.

As always, you can achieve the same result directly with exiftool and/or ImageMagick. Next to the commercial wrapper plugin I'm sure you'll find plenty of shell scripts or gui frontends around for various operating systems even if you don't use LR.

If I do, I might have to get with you on those former DDR sites. I've seen some on EOSHD that look pretty interesting.

Be sure to contact me when you visit ... I sometimes meet American tourists exploring these sites, there are whole small cities in the woods including cinemas, schools and nuclear bunkers. Even though they are mostly visible on google satellite these days, *** is always removed in forums like forum.hidden-places.de (being on topic) ... it's still not exactly legal to visit and you want to keep the best parts still hidden.

My main interest was to look for soviet propaganda, coming from western germany it's interesting to see how the russian soldiers saw the world and their enemy system. Surprise: soviet soldiers weren't blood sucking lunatics like my grandmother used to think, but decorated their schools with bees and flowers for their kids.

Since they always used their military newspaper as the background for their wallpapers, you can also look at their cartoons ("u.s. threatening the peaceful east with nuclear arms race") and propaganda photography ("praise the newest missile system defending us from the capitalist aggressors") from the 50s to their defeat, um, voluntary withdrawal 1990.

 

[mackguyver]

Marsu, I like the plugin idea - I think I've seen some photos like that out there.

It's also a good way to embed the headline and caption into the shots or into an added border.

As always, you can achieve the same result directly with exiftool and/or ImageMagick. Next to the commercial wrapper plugin I'm sure you'll find plenty of shell scripts or gui frontends around for various operating systems even if you don't use LR.

If I do, I might have to get with you on those former DDR sites. I've seen some on EOSHD that look pretty interesting.

Be sure to contact me when you visit ... I sometimes meet American tourists exploring these sites, there are whole small cities in the woods including cinemas, schools and nuclear bunkers. Even though they are mostly visible on google satellite these days, *** is always removed in forums like forum.hidden-places.de (being on topic) ... it's still not exactly legal to visit and you want to keep the best parts still hidden.

My main interest was to look for soviet propaganda, coming from western germany it's interesting to see how the russian soldiers saw the world and their enemy system. Surprise: soviet soldiers weren't blood sucking lunatics like my grandmother used to think, but decorated their schools with bees and flowers for their kids.

Since they always used their military newspaper as the background for their wallpapers, you can also look at their cartoons ("u.s. threatening the peaceful east with nuclear arms race") and propaganda photography ("praise the newest missile system defending use from the capitalist aggressors") from the 50s to their defeat, um, voluntary withdrawal 1990.

Thank you for sharing those are fascinating photographs. While disturbing in their full context, there is something fascinating about the graphical design of the propaganda materials. I think they reflect the harshness of that world. When I lived their, I had a lot of interesting experiences. On one visit to East Berlin and paged through some comic books showing brutal killing by American soldiers. I visited Glienicker Brücke on a rather foggy day just ahead of an exchange, and was there for La Belle Discothèque bombing, Chernobyl, and other events as well (lucky me). It was a frightening and fascinating time to live there, punctuated by frequent sonic booms from the MiGs patrolling the city's perimeter ringed by the Wall.

I'm trying to line up my next consulting job right now, so my trip depends a lot on that, but I will definitely be in touch if I'm able to make it over there.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Marsu, Macguyver.
I love how some threads develop and mutate slightly, been following your exchange with interest, who knew the enemy are (mostly) only human? Just about anybody that has been to war?

Cheers Graham.

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Each time, I was away from the car shooting when I heard honks or people shouting asking if I was okay.

Consider yourself very lucky. Where I live, you can be laying on the ground bleeding and no one would even slow down.

I remember when I was living in Utah. I decided to pull over to the side of the road to look at a map. (you see, kids, back then we had these large pieces of paper with symbols on them that helped us navigate).

In about 3 minutes I had several people stop and ask me if I needed any help. Friendly people there.

Where I live now (DC area), if you pull over to the side of the road either someone will shoot and rob you or the police will beat you up and rob you... uh I mean arrest you for suspicious activity and confiscate evidence.. that will get lost.

 

[l_d_allan]

I'm often disappointed when people exclude EXIF for images I find interesting.

BTW, ExifTool can be used to add EXIF to images like panos where EXIF tends to be lost. Bit of a learning curve, however.

Also with manual lenses like the Samyangs. They tend to show up as 50mm and f0.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Folks.
When we were last on holiday in Cumbria playing in the snow in our Landrover I stopped at the side of the road to capture the view. I'm mid forties not too portly and was dressed for the climate, a little old lady in a beat up small hatchback, think VW Polo for size, stopped to check I didn't need help, she passed us and came back a few minutes later, I thought it was real sweet of her to check, I guess she could have given us a lift to find a bigger tow car!
At least her offer was well intentioned, I guess that was karma doing the rounds, as I had helped get a small van out of an icy car park the previous day!

Cheers Graham.

Each time, I was away from the car shooting when I heard honks or people shouting asking if I was okay.

Consider yourself very lucky. Where I live, you can be laying on the ground bleeding and no one would even slow down.

I remember when I was living in Utah. I decided to pull over to the side of the road to look at a map. (you see, kids, back then we had these large pieces of paper with symbols on them that helped us navigate).

In about 3 minutes I had several people stop and ask me if I needed any help. Friendly people there.

Where I live now (DC area), if you pull over to the side of the road either someone will shoot and rob you or the police will beat you up and rob you... uh I mean arrest you for suspicious activity and confiscate evidence.. that will get lost.