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How do I see what my exposure setting was on a picture when I took it in LR Classic?

New Here ,
Oct 03, 2022 Oct 03, 2022

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get LR Classic to display what my exposure setting (eg, +0.3, -0.7) was when I took a pic. Does anyone know of a way to do it? I'm trying to study what I did so I can take better pics.

 

I want that to display just like aperature and shutter speed. I tried to change LR display settings to include Exposure, but that didn't do anything. 

 

Also tried to figure out if it's something I have to set my camera to record, but no luck there. It's a Nikon 7500.

 

Thanks!

 

Jill

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Community Expert ,
Oct 03, 2022 Oct 03, 2022

This should be visible in the Metadata panel of Library. That panel shows a different subset from all of the available metadata fields, depending on the particular metadata set chosen at the top. There are various supplied sets, including one called "EXIF" which exposes more camera information than the "Default" set does, as below:

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"Exposure" denotes the actual shutter speed and aperture that was used, amounting (with ISO) to an Exposure Value. Most cameras have an EV Compensation / Adjust control of some sort, to override this exposure value up or down. The terminology for this in the above screenshot, seems to be "Exposure Bias" but simply put, this metadata field reports what I had turned a camera dial to when the shot was taken, to compensate for what I knew the camera's autoexposure would otherwise have done.

 

Once aware that this is LrC's name for the particular field, It is also possible to show it within Loupe Info Overlay (text overlaid at upper left when viewing a single photo), and/or as one of the text entries on the surround of a thumbnail in Grid view, e.g. 

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LEGEND ,
Oct 03, 2022 Oct 03, 2022

Are you asking about exposure (or compensation of actual exposure) as expressed as camera metadata? This has nothing to do with the "Exposure" slider in Develop. 

If the metadata, see below to set this up in the Metadata pane:

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New Here ,
Nov 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022

Thank you for this. I am wondering if you have the web version or LR Classic. The only place I see Metadata is a drop-down menu in Library. Where are you in LR when you see the screen shot you posted above? This is what I see under Library > Metadata drop-down menu

 

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New Here ,
Nov 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022

Never  mind. I think I found it. 

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LEGEND ,
Oct 03, 2022 Oct 03, 2022

2022-10-03 17_09_28-Lightroom v11 - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic - Library.png

 

It's in the Metadata panel. Since the fields that appear here are customizable, you may have to customize yours so that Exposure Bias appears.

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New Here ,
Nov 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022

Thanks for this. When I got to Library and then Metadata this is what I see, which looks very different from the screen shot you posted. Is Library the right place to be to open the Metadata panel? 

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 Thanks,

Jill

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New Here ,
Nov 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022

Never mind. I think I found it. 

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Community Expert ,
Nov 14, 2022 Nov 14, 2022
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That's the metdata presets window which is completely different. You need to show the right hand panel. You do that by clicking on the tiny little arrow on the middle of the right-hand side of your window. The panel will already slide into view just hovering over it. Scroll down until you get to the metadata section. Select EXIF from the popup menu next to the "metadata" title to the subpanel.

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