Je vérifie la date de prise de vue.

French only shortens je to j' before a vowel sound or a mute h.

So:

• j'aime
• j'habite

But:

• je vérifie
• je parle

Since vérifie begins with the consonant sound v, you keep je.

It is the present indicative of vérifier.

So Je vérifie can mean:

• I check
• I am checking

French often uses the simple present where English might use either the simple present or the present continuous.

The é has an acute accent, which affects pronunciation. It gives an ay-like sound.

So vérifie starts roughly like vay- rather than veh-.

This accent is part of the spelling of the verb vérifier and its forms:

• je vérifie
• nous vérifions
• vérification

French usually uses an article with nouns more often than English does.

Here, la date means the date: the specific date relevant in the situation. Even when English might say something shorter, French often keeps the article naturally.

So Je vérifie la date... is normal French structure.

It is modifying la date.

The main noun is date, and de prise de vue specifies what kind of date it is: the capture date or shooting date.

So the structure is:

• la date = the date
• de prise de vue = of capture / of shooting

Together: the capture date

Because prise de vue is a fixed expression in photography and imaging.

In French, many expressions of the type noun + de + noun work without an article when they describe a category, function, or type, for example:

• date de naissance
• salle de bain
• prise de courant

Here, date de prise de vue works like a technical label: capture date.

If you said de la prise de vue, it would sound more like you are talking about one specific act of shooting, not the usual metadata-style expression.

Literally, it is something like:

• prise = taking
• vue = view / sight

But as a set expression, prise de vue means image capture, shooting, or taking a photo/video, depending on context.

So even if the literal parts seem unusual, the whole phrase is idiomatic and common in photography.

Because prise is a feminine noun in this expression.

You can see that in:

• une prise de vue
• la prise de vue

It comes historically from the verb prendre, but here it is functioning as a noun, and that noun is feminine.

Because prise de vue is a fixed singular expression.

It refers to the act or process of capturing an image, not to multiple separate views. So French keeps vue in the singular as part of the standard phrase.

Yes. That is correct and natural.

It adds emphasis that the action is happening right now.

• Je vérifie la date de prise de vue = I check / I am checking the capture date
• Je suis en train de vérifier la date de prise de vue = I am in the middle of checking the capture date

The original sentence is simpler and very normal.

A rough pronunciation guide is:

Je vérifie la date de prise de vue
zhuh vay-ree-fee la daht duh preez duh vyoo

A few important points:

• je sounds like zhuh
• the French r in vérifie is not an English r
• prise sounds like preez
• vue has a French u sound that English does not really have

So the English-style spelling only gives an approximation.