The main photo for a taxon should “capture” the species as best as possible, as far as I see it. I suspect that means a presentation of the species beneficial to average users who will use that first-facing photo as a guide, since experts will instead be guided by reference books. So take a Common…

If you find that your photo choices are being reverted, it might be a good idea to flag the taxon in question and start a discussion there. A lot of this ends up being taxon-specific. Sometimes photos that show fine diagnostic details are better choices for second or third photos. The first photo se…

This actually is something that needs to be visible on the same page as the photo changes page. Not everyone is reading the flag or is being notified to it. So I agree there needs to be specific to the taxon guidelines on the same page.

I publish an article on this topic, sorry in french : http://alyasmina.org/alyasmina-2021/qtax.html In this article i propose to use a “taxonomic relevance index” to rate photos intended for scientific use in the context of floristic studies. QT0: Photograph awaiting determination QT1: Photogr…

When you choose the default taxon photo (and I often edit taxon photos) that first one needs to be meaningful when shrunk down to a thumbnail. At that size some pictures are an utter mystery! Also fuelling the homonym confusion. Lovely picture of a flower with the focus on the pollinator? Not for a…

Taking the Daisy as a working example, I’d expect the flower face (either one or several) with at least a glimpse of the underlying leaves, ideally at a slight angle down, giving more impression of height than a vertically-down look. It all gives a sense of the whole whilst working as a thumbnail. P…

I agree tangible visible guidelines would be really helpful ( if they don’t already exist ) I´ve noticed several times on taxa where I have altered the photos somebody else has reverted or swiftly changed them one day later. At present I don’t want to flag taxa for discussion around this tbh, it fe…

Sometimes it’s going to be impossible to “show the whole beast” in the first photo. I edit taxon photos for Lepidoptera. Practically every iNat photo shows either an adult or a caterpillar, except for a handful of lovely annotated photocollages showing the whole life cycle in one image that are subm…

Two other features worth aiming for on the first photo would be a sense of scale and similarity to other photos used for the larger taxon (like the genus when we’re talking species photos). I’ve seen many cases where one distinctive species in a group has very small flowers, but since the photo chos…

We have been asked not to use collage photos on iNat. I wouldn’t use a collage in the first few visible photos, but would put it within the 12 we are allowed. If I want to compare leaf detail, I open the relevant photos in separate tabs. I tweaked the photos for our most observed plant in CPT . Stu…

Taxon photo changes have been recorded in the taxon history page for a few months now, so you can see who’s been changing them. You can reach out to them via message or flag the taxon and @ mention them. There’s an FAQ about taxon photo guidelines . It’s not taxon specific, however. The issue for a …

Taxon main-photos guideline spiel on photo adjuster

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Taxon main-photos guideline spiel on photo adjuster

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