Using keywords... and how "date" would be helpful

scoodog

Hi there -- I have been doing a lot to my smugmug site over the last month or so and am having a LOT of fun. One really neat thing, I think, is the use of keywords for photos and displaying the "Web 2.0"-looking list of keywords on your home page. For example, I find it fun to click on my nephew's name and see all of his pics, in reverse-chronological order, and watch him actually get younger!

Which leads me to my point:

It would be really helpful if smugmug would display a photo's date underneath the caption and not require the end-user to click on the "more details: exif" link. Most of the people I have visiting my smugmug site have NO IDEA what exif means -- NOR SHOULD THEY HAVE TO, if you think about it. I'd argue that a core attribute of ANY photo is the date it was taken. An option to have such information displayed under a photo would be a valuable, helpful, useful thing for our end-users to see as they peruse through keyword galleries.

Any possibility of getting this added?

PS -- Thanks in advance for considering this. smugmug is really great.

http://scoodog.smugmug.com

dmc

scoodog wrote:

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It would be really helpful if smugmug would display a photo's date underneath the caption and not require the end-user to click on the "more details: exif" link....

It would be great if the exif info was available as a variables " as in SMUGDATETAKEN or SMUGISO then we could create captions like:

"This picture I took $SMUGDATETAKEN.
Details:
ISO: $SMUGISO
Zoom: $SMUGFOCALLENGTH..."

etc.

ivar

scoodog wrote:

Hi there -- I have been doing a lot to my smugmug site over the last month or so and am having a LOT of fun. One really neat thing, I think, is the use of keywords for photos and displaying the "Web 2.0"-looking list of keywords on your home page. For example, I find it fun to click on my nephew's name and see all of his pics, in reverse-chronological order, and watch him actually get younger!

Which leads me to my point:

It would be really helpful if smugmug would display a photo's date underneath the caption and not require the end-user to click on the "more details: exif" link. Most of the people I have visiting my smugmug site have NO IDEA what exif means -- NOR SHOULD THEY HAVE TO, if you think about it. I'd argue that a core attribute of ANY photo is the date it was taken. An option to have such information displayed under a photo would be a valuable, helpful, useful thing for our end-users to see as they peruse through keyword galleries.

Any possibility of getting this added?

PS -- Thanks in advance for considering this. smugmug is really great.

http://scoodog.smugmug.com

Hi Scoodog, and welcome to Dgrin!

Have you looked at our timeline? http://www.smugmug.com/help/timeline this might be something for you!

BeachBill

barb

dmc wrote:

It would be great if the exif info was available as a variables " as in SMUGDATETAKEN or SMUGISO then we could create captions like:

"This picture I took $SMUGDATETAKEN.
Details:
ISO: $SMUGISO
Zoom: $SMUGFOCALLENGTH..."

etc.

I've been thinking about the exact same thing.... I would suggest naming them $EXIFDATETAKEN $EXIFMODEL $EXIFAPERTURE, etc.

I really hate the way smugmug displays the camera make/model "proper cased":

camera: Canon (Canon Eos 30d)

especially since the EXIF info for model is "Canon EOS 30D" and there is no reason to state the make twice. I would prefer to just show $EXIFMODEL.

scoodog

ivar wrote:

Hi Scoodog, and welcome to Dgrin!

Have you looked at our timeline? http://www.smugmug.com/help/timeline this might be something for you!

Ivar, this feature doesn't take care of my needs. I really want the ability to see the date on each photo in the keyword-generated gallery view that comes up.

Also, I've discovered that the ordering of the photos in the keyword-generated gallery views is based on the reverse-chronological order in which the PICTURE WAS UPLOADED TO SMUGMUG. This isn't intuitive. I would like for the ability to display the pictures in the reverse-chronological order in which the PICTURE WAS TAKEN.

I am hoping that these changes can be made. Please let me know what you think, and thanks in advance!!

ScooDog

pat.kane

dmc wrote:

It would be great if the exif info was available as a variables...

Don't forget the IPTC data as well.