I’d appreciate suggestions on how to improve my workflow for generating observations, please. My currently workflow is: I take most of my photos for observations on my Nikon P900, which has a built in GPS. Then I take out the memory card, stick it in the card reader on my Mac laptop, and import th…

You can’t do anything different in those steps to avoid losing quality, you can e.g. use presets for all of your photos to shorten the time of editing. But with that ot with anything else time to snap a pic will always be much shorter than what you spend on full uploading process. It’s normal to not…

When I used a P900 I also had a phone with an SD card slot. I would just put the SD card into my phone and crop photos there, then share them to the iNat app one observation at a time. No import or export time required, and the one-by-one method is surprisingly nimble as it avoids the total bog-down…

My workflow is nearly identical to yours. I use an iPhone so the import process is a bit different. [image] dlevitis: Steps 3 and 7 are the most time consuming I do view each photo one at a time to decide which photos to upload, but why crop each one? I only crop the photos that need to be c…

I agree, the only step that jumps out to me here to improve is not cropping every picture. If cropping isn’t needed for the ID, don’t worry about it. iNat will downscale the pic to iNat’s max resolution fine. It sounds like you have a good working system for location info, which I think is the most…

I also crop a lot of photos. The inbuilt Photos app on Mac is not a great tool for cropping. You need to go through several clicks and drags every time you want to do a simple crop. One option for you might be to upgrade to a better app. I have recently started using Lightroom Classic and it is so m…

I’ve been waiting for a question like this. I used to try to think of ways to streamline my process, but I decided I like it a lot. At Step 3, in Apple Photos I enjoy reviewing my field trip while cropping and rotating (for some reason a lot of my closeups are upside down) and I add “captions” (App…

My process is very similar. You can save a lot of time if you don’t have to crop every photo. Shoot photos closer up if possible, so they don’t need to be cropped. You say the photos are too big to upload without cropping. Do you mean the filesize is too large? If so, when you export them from Pho…

Ah yes, @tony ’s suggestion is good. I forgot to add that when I Export from Apple Photos, I choose a custom “dimension” limit of 3000 pixels (it probably could be less).

I use the P950 And have a similar procedure, but I do not have to edit the photos anymore which makes life much easier! I believe I changed to jpeg and medium quality to achieve an image size that iNaturalist will accept. I can now go through the photos quickly just punching cntrl+s on the ones i wa…

[image] tony: there’s an option to export them as smaller files. So you shouldn’t need to crop them just to reduce the filesize. That’s not saving time, he would need to export them again at normal size for storage, that’s x2 time instead of doing the crop that takes less time.

Seeking observation workflow suggestions from Nikon P900 to Mac to iNat

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Seeking observation workflow suggestions from Nikon P900 to Mac to iNat

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