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What do you use for note-taking in the field?

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    What do people use for notetaking, if anything?

    As I'm learning, I'll go out and take say a 100 or so shots and when I get back to the computer sometimes I forget what I was trying to achive with a shot.

    Do you folks use pen/paper, audio recorder,memory etc. while out and about?

    I've used the 'take a shot of your hand at the start and end of a sequence' trick. Any more tips n'tricks?

    Thanks

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    I use a small flip pad with rings at the top that easily fits in a shirt pocket but EXIF provides a lot of info. All I add is what may not be obvious such as raining, location, filter, tweaking of settings, etc., but even that I can often recognize from the photo alone.

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    I've got a small, digital voice recorder that I use. Especially handy for remembering which frames were supposed to go in which pano!

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    The friend who got me into photography told me about this EXIF program like this one: http://regex.info/exif.cgi

    You 'browse' the original picture you took either using an uploaded file from a url or one from your hard drive, and when you view the image, it'll pull up all the stats used.

    There's a "simple" and "detailed" report it compiles for you and as far as i can see, it gives you all the details.

    (I could be wrong, i'm still new, so some of the stats/numbers are gibberish to my eyes)

    Hope that helps!

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    If I remember I take a notebook.

    Normally I try to remember.

    Failing that I will write on anything including paper, food wrappers, passing children, whatever!
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    I usually just recall when I look at a photo what it was I was trying to achieve. I also keep a pen and a small pad of paper in my camera backpack with me incase I have an idea I want to recall for a later shoot.
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    Some people have mp3 players that record their voices.
    Others can use their cellphones to input information.

    I like to go old school and etch the info into my skin with a stray branch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by marko View Post
    I like to go old school and etch the info into my skin with a stray branch.
    That's too hardcore for me!
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    I don`t note take in the field much. I pretty much know what my goal is for each shoot.

    I spend more time studying the exif in processing to see if the objective had been met.
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