FINDING: MODI - Find where & when a photo was taken (geolocation & chronolocation)

[@visheshkhatri2216]

watched your whole playlist on OSINT and it completely changed the way i thought about OSINT earlier . Really great playlist i will refer it to all my friends , Love from INDIA

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you!

[@mathewrtaylor]

Really appreciated going the extra distance on the second photo and repeating the process. I've shared this around to other practitioners, so thanks for sharing this content!

[@Bendobrown]

Hey thanks mate, no problem. It's that extra process of following up for more 'geoawareness' that often gets forgotten. So simple to just run an image reverse search and pop a few more pins in the map. Hope it helps!

[@0x4rk0]

I need to step up my video content game! Amazing

[@Bendobrown]

No way, look at your uploads. What sort of productivity beast are you?!?! Keep it up mate, your channel is fantastic!

[@sharansoundararajan4956]

Your videos is going to blow up soon, thanks to Modi.

[@Bendobrown]

haha - I wouldn't say that's a bad thing!

[@videostarish]

Nice...! Yea, using clocks or wrist watches to derive the location...also nice..!

[@Bendobrown]

I've seen fuel prices done as well, matched with public records of the exact same prices of fuel on a specific day. So many options.

[@pranaydwivedi910]

Loved it man have ads , so we can contribute to you

[@Bendobrown]

Haha thanks!

[@Shivam-br5bk]

Wow this is really really powerful tool

[@njpoulsen1]

Hi Ben, really great content and useful! I have used similar methods for geolocating old family photos (before cell phones) and movie filming locations. One bit of criticism - you do a LOT of zooming, scrolling and mouse movements, which when viewed on a 27" monitor almost make you nauseous. But, thats just me.

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you! I'll take note of that for future turorials :D

[@yugkushwaha]

Love from india , modi ji ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@d8rh8r35]

Epic man,... really cool

[@Bendobrown]

Thanks mate!

[@d3v377]

High-quality content!

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you!

[@alhadad1979]

Hi Ben, is possible to tell the distance that the photo taken from, to a specific object in that photo?

[@Kingupro]

I love your content and the series gave me lot's of knowledge so far but i have this question. We were looking north in suncalc, but the image looks like it was taken pointing east so the shadow was actually south east in the actual image, isn't that can lead to false result..?

[@xae1229]

Now i am pretty sure,Modi is quite popular .

[@adammagson5725]

Fantastic content!

[@Bendobrown]

Thanks Adam!

[@lakshitverma2.094]

Good one

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you!

[@lakshitverma2.094]

@@Bendobrown I'd like to work with you how to connect

[@Bendobrown]

Hi Lakshit, you can find my contact details on the 'about' section of this KZbin channel or DM me through Twitter. Always happy to chat!

[@lakshitverma2.094]

@@Bendobrown thanks man 😊

[@RX_100.0]

Quality content.. Let me know topics of your future uploads

[@Bendobrown]

Thanks! If you have any suggestions I am all ears. I'm aware there's a lot more I can do bringing existing data into the mapping atmosphere so I'll do a bit of that. Primarily I've only focussed on image-based open source work (IMINT) but eventually I'll get onto some more deeper analysis and investigations via KZbin tutorials.

[@usernamemykel]

Terrific. How do you get the original image to appear/disappear and float around on top of the Earth image?

[@uma_r]

Great content

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you so much!

[@Jamy68]

Love from India thanks for finding MODI lol

[@fade242black]

Great tutorial!

[@Bendobrown]

Thanks so much Paul! Really appreciate it!

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

Thanks 🤙

[@usernamemykel]

What is that sunpath calculation tool, please?

[@totox6915]

You could possibly save times by checking metadata of your photo first or some of duplicates from the web

[@Bendobrown]

Good one! That's why I started the process with the image reverse search. The metadata is always a good trick, but you kind of have to be lucky, and this specific image was from social media which didn't help too much.

[@vaibhav7457]

How do you check metadata?

[@user-xf7mu7ub9d]

@@vaibhav7457 Bendobrown made a video about it. Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mmSxpIduoa-Foqc

[@vaibhav7457]

@@user-xf7mu7ub9d thanks man!! gonna watch it now

[@haydenbrophy9460]

Can you do a vid of using time and photo to find location

[@Bendobrown]

It's scheduled for the future ;) In the meantime, here's one I did in Yemen that sort of answers that question, it's a Twitter thread, but it conveys the point... twitter.com/BenDoBrown/status/1397157972762112001?s=20

[@neadlead2621]

in this case you didn't use the variabes a b ... to find out the time , are they not important so u use them just to make sure that u did get it right ?

[@neadlead2621]

also in this case it will be so hard to get the length of the shadow

[@smiley2924]

i wish there was a wbesite that can just do this for you

[@111danish111]

What if there is no meta data available for the image ?

[@Bendobrown]

That we have have the manual geo/chrono skills in these tutorials for 😆

[@mahesh3960]

How can I get in touch with ya?

[@Bendobrown]

Twitter.com/bendobrown or my email is on the about page of this channel.

[@robhobsweden]

This doesn't help at all, since it all depends on google image reverse search. I have a lot of b/w photos from the 1940's to 1960's from my family, and google image reverse search isn't that helpful that one think. Some of them just ignores the buildings in the background, and interpret that one or several persons are standing in the photo, and search for standing people. From my experience, google image reverse is marvellous in detecting photos that already are famous, not photos that is from a past era or aren't that famous. So, this tutorial isn't useful at all for the majority of photos. What would be better, is that if there were a community, for instance on facebook, where one can upload the photos, and get a real fellow human to guess the location. Sadly, it seems that there is no such community.

[@Bendobrown]

There are communities on both Reddit and Twitter for exactly this.