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- Jan 18, 2009
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- Fort Myers, FL
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Infrequently, but often enough to be annoying, I get a request that goes like this: "Can I get a larger version of this shot".
Typically they "think" it was taken sometime last winter, but are not sure. usually it's been cropped or otherwise changed, and of course it never has any embedded metadata.
So I look for clues. These are usually sports shots, so try to find some opposing team uniform in the shot to find color, or other hints of when. Often I draw the conclusion it may not have even been one of my photos.
Yes... educate the customer, teach them to leave metadata in... all those ideas come to mind and are pointless. It is what it is.
My question is this: Are there tools which can do a reverse image search on a lightroom catalog? And be any good?
Some googling and the only thing I found is this. Interestingly the word doesn't appear here on the forum at all, so it must not be too widely used. Anyone tried it?
It has a trial version so was thinking of pulling it down and experimenting, but wondered if there are other tools people have tried, or other techniques, that do not require metadata (not one such request for me has ever been solved by looking at metadata).
Typically they "think" it was taken sometime last winter, but are not sure. usually it's been cropped or otherwise changed, and of course it never has any embedded metadata.
So I look for clues. These are usually sports shots, so try to find some opposing team uniform in the shot to find color, or other hints of when. Often I draw the conclusion it may not have even been one of my photos.
Yes... educate the customer, teach them to leave metadata in... all those ideas come to mind and are pointless. It is what it is.
My question is this: Are there tools which can do a reverse image search on a lightroom catalog? And be any good?
Some googling and the only thing I found is this. Interestingly the word doesn't appear here on the forum at all, so it must not be too widely used. Anyone tried it?
It has a trial version so was thinking of pulling it down and experimenting, but wondered if there are other tools people have tried, or other techniques, that do not require metadata (not one such request for me has ever been solved by looking at metadata).