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# Posted: 10 Feb 08 16:30 - Edited by: ortho158
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You have to be careful with the content of your pics, as well as with their EXIF data. Here are a few guidelines ...

First of all, change the date/time on your camera, as these will be found in the EXIF data of your pictures. If you don't care about the time/date yourself, put anything in the appropriate fields on your camera. If they are important for you, change them to something meaningful: e.g. set the date as 4am if it is 4pm, and vice versa. In this way, the time is right, on a 12-hour basis. It is more complex for the date: I suggest that you add or substract 10 years (or, better, one century if your camera allows it).

Second, be careful when photographing clocks. It's all right if the time is notoriously wrong, such as on churches just after a change to summer or winter time.



But never photograph clocks in a railway station.



Third, avoid places where there are lots of other photographers: you will end up on their pics! (and maybe your boy/girlfriend too).



Fourth, avoid places where there are webcams, such as here.

And finally, never borrow the camera of someone else. What will your partner think when s/he finds out that the camera model that you used on that business trip, is not yours?

# Posted: 10 Feb 08 18:46
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And for Google earth ? ;o)

# Posted: 10 Feb 08 20:20
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I do like your third tip!!! I'll practice it more often!
The first one I dislike as I wanna remember when I truly took the pic... but not the others to know it

# Posted: 10 Feb 08 20:40
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two serious tips fom Woophy

- don't use your own (real)name as username
- don't put pictures of your friends and family online (reason is that it is much harder when somebody critizes these pictures)

# Posted: 10 Feb 08 21:50
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...and never forget to hide behind your camera. How you can do this is shown in these two topics:

How to hide, part I
How to hide, part II

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