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Do you add metadata to your photographs?
I always intend to add metadata, but more or less rely on remembering dates.

I always intend to add metadata, but more or less rely on remembering dates.
i have it inserted automatically, and set it using the camera's menu options. It helps with any copyright issues and i get to analyze what settings worked the best with each lens, time of day, etc.. for the longest time i didnt add it. i was thinking about removing date, but keeping time. date would prevent my boss from finding out that i take photos when im supposed to work :)
I never remember. Most everything gets stripped out in the "save for web" process. I sometimes think I should go through and add keywords for searches, but that would be a big project, so I really haven't done anything.
Yeah, I literally have tens of thousands of images in my Lightroom catalog, and going through them is probably not worth the effort. I should start doing it going forward though because it's impossible to find things sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQvOnDlql5g&feature=youtu.be
LOL - this is me and my photography collection.
Not positive what is meant by metadata, but my guess is best described by a brief story... I once found two google+ accounts claiming to be twin singers. There were no songs, just pictures of the twins that were clearly both Sabrina Carpenter, and a video saying "WE'RE NOT SABRINA CARPENTER" but without any video or audio clips of their voices, just still images and "quotes" with a Fall Out Boy song in the background. When I clicked on one of the photos, the caption said it was Sabrina Carpenter performing in New York City on such and such a date. I'd seen that before, when an image was downloaded from a google search and uploaded to google+ sometimes it would automatically have a caption that had been written on the original photo. Is that part of metadata?
Metadata is data about data (meta = self-referential). It makes searching for specific subjects much, much easier. For example, there are tens of thousands of images in my Lightroom catalog, but without metadata there's no way for me to do a search on, for example, "flowers". Does that make sense?
As jammin said it's just info that refers to the file. Most cameras put in metadata about the date, camera, lens and setting. Smartphones and some cameras have geo data indicating where the photo was taken. Through software (like Lightroom or Bridge) you can add keywords and rating information for searching and sorting.
I keep the meta data on one version of the shot but usually strip it off the version I post here. That's because it's slow to upload.
I don't know that metadata would even be useful beyond your catalog right? Metadata is for searching for yourself as far as I'm concerned.
Pretty much.
Metadata can also be used for online searches too. That's how you can search for images on google. Below is a screen shot from a google search of "photopigs".
Oh, got it. Silly me should have realized that.
That's why we used to tell people to strip location info from personal photos.