ShotCard: Stop Typing Your Camera Settings Into Comments

Every time I post a photo, somebody asks the same question. "What were your settings?" What lens? Sony or Canon? And I get it — I ask the same thing. That's how we learn this stuff. But typing "one one-thousandth, f/2.8, ISO 800" into a comment section for the fifteenth time gets old. So I built something for that. It's called ShotCard.

The Photo Already Knows

ShotCard takes any photo and turns its camera settings into a clean card you can post anywhere. You drop the photo in, and it reads everything straight off the image — aperture, shutter speed, ISO, camera, lens, even the date. You don't type anything. Every setting you dialed in at the moment you pressed the shutter is already sitting inside the file, and ShotCard just puts it somewhere worth looking at.

Built for the Sideline

You can style the card to your liking — there's a classic card, a film strip, a clean overlay. And because I shoot a lot of games, there are sports backgrounds too: a football field, a basketball court, a baseball diamond, a running track. If you're a team photographer or a sports parent, that part I made specifically for you.

The Part I Got Stubborn About

Every field is editable. Shooting an adapted lens the camera can't identify? A film scan with no data at all? Just type it in. But here's the honest part — if you change what the file actually said, the card marks it with a little asterisk. So the data stays honest. That's not a bug. That's the point. If a settings card is going to teach somebody something, it should be telling them the truth.

Go Make a Card

It lives at shotcard.app. It's quick and easy — you can be posting a card in about thirty seconds. If you try it and something's broken, or there's a template your sport needs, there's a feedback button and it comes straight to me.

I'm not a software company. I'm just a guy who shoots games, works in IT, and got tired of typing his settings into comments. If that's you too — go make a card.