Help not showing shooting data

Steve S

I've clicked "Don't show shooting data" in my gallery customization, but it's still there. In fact, when I hover over my thumbnails, it actually strobes the shooting data. The strobe effect is the most annoying aspect of this whole problem. Having the shooting data show below the pics isn't as bothersome. I've written the admins, and they don't seem to know what's going on. Can anyone help me here?

ivar

Steve S wrote:

I've clicked "Don't show shooting data" in my gallery customization, but it's still there. In fact, when I hover over my thumbnails, it actually strobes the shooting data. The strobe effect is the most annoying aspect of this whole problem. Having the shooting data show below the pics isn't as bothersome. I've written the admins, and they don't seem to know what's going on. Can anyone help me here?

the shooting data i am seeing is not the shooting data, but shooting data that ended up in your comment.... Do you do anything in your workflow that could cause the data to end up in your iptc comment?

Does it show on all your photos? check your photos that you still have on your computer to see if you have it on there aswell.


Oh, and welcome do dgrin

Andy

Steve S wrote:

I've written the admins, and they don't seem to know what's going on. Can anyone help me here?

IIRC, I answered your question when you wrote the help desk. Somehow, your shooting data (exif) is showing up in the caption field of your file.

There could be folks here with similar gear, setups, software - so, please detail your camera, and your workflow - I'm sure we can get you sorted, somehow.

Steve S

thnx Ivar/Andy,

Andy wrote:

IIRC, I answered your question when you wrote the help desk. Somehow, your shooting data (exif) is showing up in the caption field of your file.

There could be folks here with similar gear, setups, software - so, please detail your camera, and your workflow - I'm sure we can get you sorted, somehow.

fwiw, I'm shooting Nikon equip & using Nikon Transfer to copy the files over to my puter. From there, I edit/convert my raw (nef) files in Nikon Capture, then do my final edits in PS/CS2, then finally, do a "Save As" to preserve the shooting data, (vs a "Save For Web", which destroys the exif). Would love to get to the bottom of this dilema! Also, am totally dreading the re-uploading of the files I've already put on Smugmug once the solution is found!

Andy

Steve S wrote:

fwiw, I'm shooting Nikon equip & using Nikon Transfer to copy the files over to my puter. From there, I edit/convert my raw (nef) files in Nikon Capture, then do my final edits in PS/CS2, then finally, do a "Save As" to preserve the shooting data, (vs a "Save For Web", which destroys the exif). Would love to get to the bottom of this dilema! Also, am totally dreading the re-uploading of the files I've already put on Smugmug once the solution is found!

Nikon is quirky - we'll need to hear from some fellow Nikon shooters about how they deal with this. It's not on our end, though we'll try to help for sure!

Steve S

Think I found the fix!

Andy wrote:

Nikon is quirky - we'll need to hear from some fellow Nikon shooters about how they deal with this. It's not on our end, though we'll try to help for sure!

I unchecked "Add additional IPTC information to all files" and starting with this file upload, it doesn't strobe the info or show below the pic. YAY! Now I gotta do something about all those bloody files I uploaded when this pref was checked!

ivar

Steve S wrote:

I unchecked "Add additional IPTC information to all files" and starting with this file upload, it doesn't strobe the info or show below the pic. YAY! Now I gotta do something about all those bloody files I uploaded when this pref was checked!

As far as smugmug goes, you can add/remove/change captions per gallery, you don't have to do that one by one. For your own files at your computer, same thing; there is software that mass-edits iptc captions. (ie adobe bridge, but i think pretty much all software that uses iptc tags )

pat.kane

Steve S wrote:

... Now I gotta do something about all those bloody files I uploaded when this pref was checked!

If you're using Windows, see this thread for some IPTC editors that may be of help
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=31449

e.g., ThumbsPlus, PixVue, XnView, etc.

Good luck.