Some manufactures give you a feature that can imprint the current date and time onto your image. Or they offer to imprint other stats like the current exposure settings, or shot number.

Turn these off!

You don’t want anything to distract you or your viewer from the subject of your photo.

Modern digital cameras record the time and date the shot was taken anyway in a separate part of the image file. This is called the EXIF information (find out more about EXIF).

However, it is handy to know this information when looking at your prized images years from now. So what I do is have my image printing company stamp the EXIF information (like the time and date the shot was taken) on the back of my photos where it doesn’t detract from your subject.

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