Hi all. I was wondering if there are any aggregated resources for recommended practices to photographing based on the taxon you are photographing? I found this couple year old thread but it doesn’t seem to have gone beyond the thread? https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/photo-taking-recommendations-by…

Do you mean something along the lines of this: https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/2465 ?

Yes, thank you I had no idea this was part of the website. And I guess others too from the number of guides

Guides are just not supported anymore, so there’s not many.

@chrisfrazier Welcome to the forum! I’m not exactly sure what you are looking for, but for adult Lepidoptera a shot of the dorsal surface is ideal. Side shots are not great. If you can get the hind wings in as well (often hard) it also helps ID.

For many groups vetral side is very important too, many Nymphalids and Lycaenids are ided only with both sides photographed.

It heavily depends on the taxonomic level that you are talking about. General information about photographing certain taxa can probably only be given at the level of orders or families. As soon as you dive into genera it heavily depends on the genus. I’m mostly writing with the perspective of an ent…

I am sure everyone is always aiming for a photo in focus. Alas, efforts are often thwarted by the photographer’s poor skills, inadequate imaging tools, wind, or the subject itself. And of course Murphy’s law – even if you succeed in taking 100 pictures of the specimen, eventually the identifiers ma…

Recommended photographs per taxon

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zdanko August 23, 2021, 1:22am 8

There’s a pdf somewhere that an iNatter made a while back, but I can’t find it. It’s perfect for answering this question.

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