{"id":32450,"date":"2023-07-21T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T19:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:27:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:27:08","slug":"where-did-you-take-that-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=32450","title":{"rendered":"Where did you take that photo?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Family, California<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I get asked that question on a regular basis. This time it was a photo I posted on Facebook of our extended family (20 of us) at a restaurant when we were all together in the Bay Area in California. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Sometimes I recognize the location immediately. Sometimes I think I know but I’m not sure, and sometimes I have no clue. In this case I thought I remembered where we were but after eleven years I wasn’t sure.

This is how I find the location of a photo if I’m not sure of the location or have no clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Folder of iPhone photos taken July 14, 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I went to the folder with the original photo (2nd row, 2nd photo) and opened that image in Photoshop (PS).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Screen capture: Photoshop and Google Earth Pro. Click for a larger image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

At the top left corner of Photoshop I went to File > File Info and chose “GPS Data” to open a box with the GPS information. Toward the top of the GPS info box I could read the GPS coordinates for the photo (red letter \u201cA\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I opened Google Earth Pro (a free download) and put it on top of Photoshop and right next to the GPS info box. I took the GPS coordinates from the Photoshop box and typed them in the Google Earth Pro search box (to the left of the red \u201cB\u201d). I clicked SEARCH button (to the right of the red \u201cB\u201d) and Google Earth Pro went to the location on a satellite image and dropped a yellow pin (red \u201cC\u201d) at the GPS coordinates. The restaurant we were at (partially blue roof) was at Stevenson and Omar Streets in Fremont California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Earth Pro didn\u2019t name the restaurant we were at, but it named Jack in the Box next door. That was puzzling. I soon learned why the restaurant we were at did not have a business name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screen capture: Google Street View.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Using Google’s online map site, I went to Stevenson and Omar, and switched to “street view” to see a photo of the restaurant. Google put a notice on the photo that Outback Steakhouse is permanently closed. A quick Google search told me this Outback closed in February 2021.

But it did answer the question I was asked. My photo was taken at Outback Steakhouse back in July 2012.

Grabbing the GPS coordinates from an iPhone photo and dropping them into a mapping program is one of the fastest ways to find out where a photo was taken. Most smartphones record the GPS coordinates in the image file and several kinds of photo software will show you those coordinates.

What about other cameras? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some cameras imbed GPS coordinates into images and some don\u2019t. I have two primary DSLR cameras and one records GPS info and one does not. After I use the DLSR that does not record GPS info I will often take a quick photo at the same location with my iPhone so I will have the GPS coordinates just in case I need them later.

With more and more magazine photo editors asking for GPS coordinates before they will publish a photo, it is more important for photographers to have that information. If your primary camera does not record GPS data, grab a quick photo with your smart phone at the same spot just in case you need the GPS coordinates at a later date.

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\u201cHow To\u201d Series: Using GPS in Photography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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