Athletic Archive EXIF Orientation Normalization for Rotated Sports Photos
A photo of a 1998 state championship team arrives in your athletic archive perfectly exposed, sharply focused, and tilted 90 degrees sideways — not because the scan was wrong, but because the EXIF orientation tag that tells software how to rotate the image on display is mismatched, missing, or simply ignored by your hall-of-fame platform. Multiply that problem by hundreds of photos submitted by parents, coaches, and community photographers over decades, and you have a collection in which a substantial fraction of images appear correctly on the camera that captured them, correctly in some desktop applications, and sideways in every other system that touches them — including the lobby kiosk, the digital yearbook viewer, and the print-production workflow for recognition booklets.
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