Karen St John
EF3
When logging photographs and videos, what information do you include, and is there a software preference among chasers?
Logging photos and videos
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Jeremy Jones
No software for me. I'm not extremely big into logging my photographs and video. Just a card dump into a folder with the date, backed up on my external HD. I usually try and grab the spc outlook and then the reports after the day is done with. Sorry I couldn't help more! 
Terrence Cook
EF2
I was really hoping to see photos and video of logging in this thread, very disappointing. Maybe next time...
Skip Talbot
EF5
Check out Nick Nolte's blog. He did a nice write-up on using Lightroom with a couple plugins to stamp your images with the date and location using your GPS logs:
http://www.nicknoltewx.com/blog/201...om-lightroom-stamped-with-geotag-information/
Your name, date, and location are the most important pieces of information I'd put on the image. If you're going from a photography angle, adding the focal length, shutter, aperture, and ISO on there is a good idea too. Lightroom is pretty slick, letting you organize and filter your photo collections by all of these categories (and a lot more) as well making processing a snap. Instead of stamping the image, you could also use a web gallery that displays this information alongside the photo by pulling it from the EXIF data in the image.
http://www.nicknoltewx.com/blog/201...om-lightroom-stamped-with-geotag-information/
Your name, date, and location are the most important pieces of information I'd put on the image. If you're going from a photography angle, adding the focal length, shutter, aperture, and ISO on there is a good idea too. Lightroom is pretty slick, letting you organize and filter your photo collections by all of these categories (and a lot more) as well making processing a snap. Instead of stamping the image, you could also use a web gallery that displays this information alongside the photo by pulling it from the EXIF data in the image.
Karen St John
EF3
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Karen St John
EF3
I have a Canon EOS 7D, which I believe does have that data recorded, so it sounds like it will be complementary. I'm still getting used to using digital SLRs. Grad school required me to use slide film shots of architecture and landscapes, but those were simpler times, lol, using an old Ricoh XR7...
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Patrick Martin
EF4
Your 7D, or most any DSLR will have what's called the EXIF data intact with any picture you take. If you are using the supplied Digital Photo Professional software that came with your camera, all you need to do is right click on any image while in that program, and choose "info" and it will display all the shooting information. Also, if you use Firefox as your browser, you can download a plugin called "Exif viewer" and it will allow you to do the same right click on any web image to see it, assuming it has not been stripped from the image during post processing. The 7D does not have a GPS, so you will need to keep some notes or be able to recall where the photo was taken, but otherwise most all the info you need will be in the EXIF already.
I use lightroom with the jf Geocoding plug-in also. I just import my Street Atlas GPS log into it and it matches up the photos with the gps track. You have to make sure the timecode on your still camera and video camera is accurate though... That also helps with reconstruction when we're looking through chaser video and trying to put together a tornado track during a tornado damage survey.
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