The best way to "learn from your mistakes"

OR: how to shorten the learning curve for UW digital photography.

Picture Information Extractor or PIE for short is the best program out there for reviewing your photographs and learning from them. Select a folder of photos: It lets you see a thumbnail of the photo, the shutter, exposure, zoom, flash information, etc about the shot.

Here is a link to their site:

http://www.picmeta.com

This is how I learned that the Coolpix in Automatic mode uses low f-stop and high shutter for low light conditions. When in fact I wanted it to use a higher f-stop and lower shutter speed.

Try bracketting a shot, then go back to PIE when you get home and look at the different exposures.

It's a fantastic tool!!!!

HTH

James Wiseman

That is pretty cool. I have ACDSee and can get to the metadata fairly easily in that, too. However, the displays in PIE are better for this purpose.

Mike