Calling MTB Photographers: Enhanced Singletracks Photo Pages

The photo pages on Singletracks just got a fancy new look plus a ton of great features sure to stoke serious photogs. Here’s the grand tour plus tips for uploading your photos to Singletracks (get hands on here). Enlarged photos Click on a photo to stretch to fit your browser window. You can even save …

The photo pages on Singletracks just got a fancy new look plus a ton of great features sure to stoke serious photogs. Here’s the grand tour plus tips for uploading your photos to Singletracks (get hands on here).

Enlarged photos

Click on a photo to stretch to fit your browser window. You can even save the full-res shot to your computer in all its glory. The photo info box on the left side of the page fills you in on the full-size dimensions.

Photo ratings

Not all mountain bike photos are created alike; fortunately the internet enjoys awarding star ratings. Rate the photos you view to help us choose the best thumbnail for trail and gear pages.

Camera EXIF data

EXIF data is just another name for what photo geeks call “information about the camera configuration when the photo was taken.” So now you can see if that sick photo was taken with a fancy DSLR or just some guy’s iPhone.

Geo-tagged photos

Ever wonder EXACTLY where a mountain bike trail photo was taken? Well now you don’t have to! We’ve been saving location data for photos uploaded via our apps for a while and we finally managed to share that info in the form of a thumbnail map. You can even go back and geo-tag photos you uploaded previously.

Once we get a critical mass of geo-tagged pics, we’ll start to integrate those into trail maps as well.

Notifications

Watch any photo and you’ll get notified whenever anyone comments on it or posts a positive rating.

More sharing options

Did you know you can upload photos to Singletracks and easily share them on forums, including our own? Yep, just click the share button then copy/paste the forum code. We also added buttons for shipping your favorite shots over to Pinterest, Facebook, etc.

Upload tips

We added a few new fields to the photo upload form and also want to share a couple pro tips.

  • Quit uploading photos one at a time! When you click the “choose files” button you can shift-click to grab a bunch of photos at once.
  • Tags: add some descriptive words so others can find your photos. Words like “crash” and “blood” tend to be attention grabbers, though “waterfall” and “jump” are nice too. Optional.
  • Location: click to reveal a map for locating the spot where you snapped the pic. This is also optional.

We’re really stoked about the photo updates and we’re having fun viewing everyone’s pics! Special thanks to mudhunny for putting this new design together.