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Personally, I would answer that question with no problem, regardless if I charged for teaching or not.
It’s not giving away anything special to say I shot something with X lens at Y aperture; there’s usually a lot more to getting a particular shot than what that information would give someone. If that’s all they need to reproduce it, they could likely set their camera to full auto and get close enough.
To me there’s a big difference between telling someone a basic technical aspect of a photo and actually imparting some great knowledge. Besides, chances are good you could reproduce most shots with a different combination of lens and settings, which I would also tell someone asking that question.
Most of the time (for my work at least) what I do in the editing stage is much more important than what I did at the time I took the shot. When someone asks me that is when I usually tell them the truth: It was a lot of hand editing.