Exif Orientation Tag

I've been planning to upload a bunch of new photos to this web site, but one thing that's been stopping me is the prospect of manually fixing the orientation of each one (i.e. when you take a picture with the camera held vertically instead of horizontally, the image that comes of of the camera needs rotating because the bottom of the image is aligned with the bottom of the camera, not with the ground).

It turns out that my new camera records, in each image, the orientation of the camera when the picture was taken. Since the information is there in the computer, in a computer-legible format, I decided that rotating the images was a task that the computer should do for me. Needless to say I'm not the first person to think of this, so being lazy I set out to find someone else who had done all the hard work for me.

It turns out that there are lots of programs built to handle just this situation, but for various reasons none of them suited my fancy until I found the JPEG Club's Exif Orientation Tag page, which includes a pair of bare-bones (but technically very "correct") programs to handle the task with grace.

So here come the new photos!