Choosing a lens

- If you've spent much time shooting and editing…with any camera,…you should be pretty comfortable…with the idea of metadata.…Metadata is all of that data…that's stuffed into your image file…that tells you when an image was shot,…possibly where an image was shot…and all of the settings on your camera,…everything from shutter speed to aperture…to focal length and lens that you were using…and that's what we're going to talk about this week…on The Practicing Photographer,…how you can use that lens and focal length metadata…to learn a lot of stuff…about the way you shoot.…The kind of stuff you're going to learn…can do everything from helping inform lens purchases…to helping you figure out where you might need to practice…or work harder.…

I'm here in Lightroom right now.…Lightroom has a very good metadata browser…that lets me look at multiple metadata criteria…for a set of images at one time.…I'm going to look at this folder called San Francisco…which has 2,136 images in it.…So, if I pull that up here…and go to my metadata panel,…