What is consensus here for multiple species in same photo? Context: I have single photo of 3 gastropod species found in the same habitat. Does the iNaturalist community recommend three separate (cropped) photos of individual species, which is probably better for the iNat identification algorithms.…

Whichever works for you–there’s no need to accommodate the computer vision training or other people. If you’d like to spend the time cropping, you can, but it’s good to also include the original photo too because showing them together provides a whole other type of interesting data. Personally I dis…

I spend a lot of time identifying other people’s observations, and one thing I would strongly recommend is that, if it’s not immediately apparent which species in the photo you are intending to identify, that you note this verbally in the notes. In many cases, making the ID is sufficient, but somet…

Just upload both, cropped version helps to understand what is the point of observation and original version shows how/where you found it.

[image] bouteloua: If you’d like to spend the time cropping, you can, but it’s good to also include the original photo too because showing them together provides a whole other type of interesting data. I concur with @bouteloua . I’d recommend cropping to one species for each individual upload…

I will echo what’s been said by the others. The best approach may vary a little depending on circumstances but including a cropped photo with the target species centered along with the original photo to show context can be important. I do a fair amount of ID’s with freshwater mussels which, if not…

Best practice, multiple species in same photo

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Best practice, multiple species in same photo

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