That sort of agrees with my findings.
Just using Finder, the preview thumbnail in the icon who’s the image as being upside down (rotated 180°)
Pressing the spacebar to show a Quicklook preview, rotates the image to the right way up.
Exif Editor shows the orientation as rotated 90° clockwise.
ExifTool shows one Rotation tag and three Orientation tags
- MakerNotes:Rotation - 90
- EXIF: Orientation - Rotate 90 CW
- EXIF: Orientation - Rotate 180
- EXIF: Orientation - Rotate 180
It would appear that you have edited the file in Nikon’s Capture NX software as the metadata includes the image edits made as well as the “regular” metadata. Have you used any other software to edit it, apart from PL? Somehow, something has managed to insert 4 tags with different orientations, which is likely to confuse the heck out of all sorts of software.