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Taking a look at metadata in a photo.

Now, any type of file that comes up on a computer is going to have was some sort of metadata and what

metadata is, it's just bits of information for that particular file.

Photos are no exception to this.

And if you're doing an ocean investigation and you come across some photos, you do want to do a few

different things.

You want to do a reverse search and you definitely want to take a look at the metadata because there

might be stuff on that particular photo that could come in handy for an investigation.

Now, a quick way to look at the metadata on the photo is if you right click it and you do properties.

And if we look in here, we can do details and we can scroll down here, we can see the dimensions of

the photo.

We could see the pixels, dpi bit depth and whatnot.

Sometimes we're able to see the camera maker and stop exposure time ISO speed, which can come in handy

depending on how deep your investigation is going to be.

But another really useful thing that you may potentially find is the GPS coordinates.

So this is pretty common for mobile phones if someone takes a photo with a mobile phone.

A lot of times by default, the GPS is going to be enabled on that device.

So if you get lucky, say you're investigating a target, they take a photo they posted up somewhere.

You could potentially grab the GPS location from where that photo was taken and look it up.

You can simply pull up a website like, say, Jeep's dash coordinates dot org and punch in the longitude

and latitude, and find out where that photo was taken.

So again, don't discount things like photos.

Definitely take a look at the metadata information in there.

And again, it may uncover quite a bit of information that could be useful to you.

This was about metadata in photos.

Thank you for watching.

I'll see you in the next video.