One of the downsides of being a naturalist is that a single walk through the local forest can mean spending hours sorting through and deleting photos. If you use a camera to shoot RAWs and then edit them and export them and whatnot, everything can quickly become a mess and then you suddenly have 40…

Some on my blog, some on iNat - both of which can be found easily. On my laptop I can find that hike or holiday. But the backlog needs sorting and deleting!

This topic has come up several times before - for example: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-to-do-with-photos/6188 https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-you-organize-your-photos/8217

I upload my photos (in JPEG format), then delete them from the camera, keeping the ones I especially like.

I just bought the second USB 1 TB SSD a couple of months ago. I load photos in a temp folder by device, delete the blurry ones, duplicate and crop, adjust light/contrast/saturation etc. After adding observations to iNat and reviews to Google maps, I store them in folders by device/year/month. I he…

[image] bazwal: This topic has come up several times before - for example: I missed those, thank you! [image] vbjanos: I just bought the second USB 1 TB SSD a couple of months ago I’m thinking of getting one of those (at the moment I think 1 should still be enough). Do you store them …

Lol,I rarely do such a thing unless my phone is near-full capacity. Which happens once a month, considering I’ve taken more that 400 photos in one day (There was a jacana, ok? And ducks. And damselflies. And butterflies. And… well…). I delete the blurry ones, but I prize my 18 identical photos of a…

I don’t shoot RAW, between 30000 frames a year and a full time job I just don’t have the time. Once I retire, I will get a DSLR and spend more time on taking photos just for fun, that I’ve neglected a bit since joining iNat. Until then I just use M to feel like a photographer :)

My cellphone pics get automatically backed up to a Flickr account where they are stored for non-public use. Camera pics get moved to an external storage drive or two, each about 1 terabyte capacity. All as JPGs.

I keep everything :sweat_smile: always dreaming that one day I will go through and delete all the blurry or duplicates. I have my camera set to take 3 shots at a time :upside_down_face: so you can imagine one hiking trip yields an excessive amount of pictures most of which are either slightly darker…

I delete them, often very quickly after upload, to remember to do so. I keep only a few really good photos. Like nice insects macros, you know, stuff i might want to look at later.

You "post-iNat workflow": What do you do with photos once you have uploaded them?

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bazwal December 3, 2024, 1:37pm 3

This topic has come up several times before - for example:

https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/what-to-do-with-photos/6188
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/how-do-you-organize-your-photos/8217

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You "post-iNat workflow": What do you do with photos once you have uploaded them?

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