Underwater photographers: how do you identify species after a trip?

Hi everyone,

I’ve recently joined Waterpixels and I’m curious to learn how underwater photographers manage species identification after a dive trip.

When you come back with hundreds or thousands of images — fish, nudibranchs, crustaceans, corals, marine mammals — how do you identify everything and keep your archive searchable?

I’m part of a small team working on an offline desktop tool that helps recognize species in wildlife and underwater photos, then lets the photographer review the results before adding common names, scientific names and taxonomy as keywords.

The goal is not to replace expert knowledge, but to make large image archives easier to explore, organize and potentially reuse for education, research or conservation.

We’re looking for a few underwater photographers willing to share their workflow and possibly test the beta on their own images.

Would this be useful to you, or do you prefer keeping identification and keywording fully manual?

If you’re interested here is a form to answer questions about it : https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected]

Thanks ! Feel free to reply here or message me.