I spend a lot of time flipping through different apps (camera, cropping in photos, then iNat) when making observations and I’m wondering if anyone has found ways to optimize this process? I’ve outlined my current and desired workflows. My desired workflow involves a redesign of the iNat app so it is…

In recent weeks I’ve just shifted to uploading on laptop (via iCloud) as it’s so much quicker for bulk uploads. The app is only really useable for an observation here and there, otherwise it’s a bit of a time-waster. Curious what Halide is like.

Do you need to ID everything you see as you see it? I prefer to take as many photos as possible during my outing, then at the end of the day I process all the photos, upload, and then ID them. This saves a lot of time vs stopping to identify each observation.

Hi Garlicdog! That’s a good idea if I’m not keying at the same time. I had gotten into the habit of doing it one by one in the app because I was doing plant ID for my job and was using iNat machine learning to help me key out species in the field by suggesting a genus.

I upload photos to MacOS and process them there, so I can’t really offer any advice for your particular workflow. (I shudder to think how much work this would be on iOS.) @markg729 I’d love to hear your comments re the Halide app. I suppose a separate thread would be needed for that. If you don’t h…

Honestly I find uploading tedious enough in general that I end up procrastinating until my phone storage is full and then have to spend a bunch of time uploading hundreds of observations… It is much nicer with the iPhone app since it automatically gets the location precision from photos, and in my e…

I like Halide. It has a nice user interface and offers manual focus and focus peaking which are invaluable. I really wish it could open with those two options already selected as that would save me a bunch of time. The other feature I keep wishing for is automated focus bracketing/stacking. There ar…

i often forget which thing i was focusing on when i do this, so it’s not something i do. And yeah, i find it tedious. But a lot of others do use this approach, i’ve been told i’m a much more app-heavy user than most. I also don’t have a very good computer or any cameras other than the iphone one

I’d like to add crop/rotate functionality to the iNat app eventually, but I think adding things like manual exposure and focus and other niche settings is likely not worth the development time. FWIW, in the current iNat iOS app’s camera you can hold down on the screen to lock autofocus and auto expo…

Thanks for the update. I’m looking forward to trying the new app! The hold-to-lock AF doesn’t do much for me. It’s too hard to see what’s in focus and what isn’t on a small screen. Hence the focus peaking.

[image] markg729: It’s too hard to see what’s in focus and what isn’t on a small screen. Hence the focus peaking. Ah, makes sense! Yeah, focus peaking is pretty rad with MF.

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