If you take digital photo you might think you have to have some type of utility or application to view the EXIF Data of the photos on your Mac. However, there is a way to view the basic EXIF data in the OS X Finder.
Apple – Pro – Tips – You’re Two Clicks from a Photo’s EXIF Data: Just click on the photo’s icon, then press Command-i to bring up the info dialog. When it appears, click on the right-facing triangle beside the words “More info” and the basic EXIF data will appear.
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you can also use the venerable graphic converter to view all the exif data. It has come preinstalled on some macs. Otherwise it’s available here: http://www.lemkesoft.com/download.html
All I really need is “date picture taken”. Where is that?
Trevor: The creation date (date picture taken) is not displayed in the OS X Finder. I would suggest that you can download “MacMetaShow,” a FREE Mac OS X droplet application, at the link below that will allow you to drop any image file on it to display all EXIF data.
http://xray.bmc.uu.se/markh/photos/macmetashow.html
Thanks for the tip. Do you know of a way to get finder to add more metadata to view?