Photo Dates

To serve clients well, professional photo organizers need to be confident that photo dates in the organized collections delivered to those clients are correct. You need to know when you can trust photo dates you see in the software you use, and what metadata fields to check if the dates don’t seem right. In software commonly used by professional photo organizers, ‘Capture Date’, is the name of a...

Categories of Photo Date Metadata A single digital photo will have a date in several different metadata date fields. The different date metadata fields are grouped into categories. The two categories of photo date metadata discussed in this article are: Exif (stands for Exchangeable Image File Format) File Properties (also know as System) Exif Date Metadata When a photo is taken with a digital...