No "more details" link for EXIF?

controld

Hi All,

I searched for an answer to this in the forum - but no luck so far...

I can't get the EXIF link to show up... I selected Yes for Camera Info in the Gallery settings and the files have the info in them - I can see it by right clicking and looking at the fXIF output in Firefox. Am I missing something?

http://mikeapted.smugmug.com/

Thanks...


- Mike

Andy

Hi Mike,

This is very strange. If you switch to Critique Style, you can see the exif is there in your files. However, something's happening to make it not show up on other styles.

Please detail for me, the *exact* steps you take from camera to computer to SmugMug. Leave nothing out. How you offload from camera, what you process with, general processing steps, how you save, how you upload.

Finally - you are uploading very low res 800px by 571px original files but still making them available for sale - this will affect what sizes of prints can be ordered.

controld

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply...

- They come off a Canon 10D by simply copying them to a folder on my computer.

- Sorted, renamed, rated, keyworded, cropped and camera raw'd in Adobe Bridge and then converted to a .DNG for cataloguing.

- Converted using IView MediaPro3 to a low res version for the web gallery.

- Uploaded using SmugMug super magic cross platform uploader (or in a few cases with the classic Browse for each file uploader - the hotel I am at now somehow manages to kill the Java one's uploads for example).

On the subject of the low res images I'd never intended to sell them - just realized I can remove that. I am learning this photography thing from scratch over the last couple months and don't expect to have any commercial interest. The only pics people may want is the parents of the hockey players I shoot and they are welcome to have them for free as long as I know about it - hence the low res online. They can email me and get a high res with no watermark/tagline.

Thanks again for any insight you can offer...

- Mike

Andy

controld wrote:

- Converted using IView MediaPro3 to a low res version for the web gallery.

I use Bridge, never had this problem.
I suspect there's something happening with IVMP, to cause the EXIF to be unreadable by us. Please do a test: Upload a file that's NOT been processed by IVMP and let me see the link, please.

Thanks

controld

Argh - I made some JPG's straight out of Bridge but they are original size and 1MB+ and even the standard uploader fails on them from my current location. There seems to be some kind of limit on the request size in the hotel's setup here. I'll see what I can work out...

- Mike

controld

OK - 1 MB seems to be the "breakage" point... I was able to get an original with a tighter crop (smaller result) to upoad. The More Details link shows properly for that one:

http://mikeapted.smugmug.com/gallery/1263924

The picture quality is substantially better too... maybe I'll stop using IVM3 for web gallery processing and upload the originals since I don't face this upload issue in most places...

Thanks for your help Andy - despite this not resolving the weirdness of the original problem...

- Mike

Andy

controld wrote:

Thanks for your help Andy - despite this not resolving the weirdness of the original problem...

- Mike

Yeah - well - the critique style goes after exif differently - so that would explain things. IVMP Save for Web gallery is stripping the proper exif though, that's for sure...

controld

Just for reference - I was using the:

Action > Convert Image Files

with the "Preserve EXIF/Metadata" option checked... if it ever comes up again.

Now I just need to bypass this ridiculous upload issue so I can fix my galleries! :-)

- Mike