Hi everyone,

I’m curious how underwater photographers handle species identification and keywording after a dive trip, especially when working in Lightroom Classic.

After importing, culling and editing, do you manually add species names, scientific names or taxonomy to your photos? Or do you mostly keep images organized by trip/location?

We’re testing an offline desktop workflow that helps recognize species in underwater and wildlife photo batches, then lets you review the results before adding common names, scientific names and taxonomy as Lightroom keywords.

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

If interested, you can tell us a bit about your workflow here:

https://survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/U3CA15?Source=Forum&[email protected]

I do both. My catalog (and hard drive) is organized by date / trip / location, then I have separate collections by genus or theme, e.g. “turtles” or “walls”. I’m too lazy to keyword individual images.

On 7/28/2026 at 9:18 PM, Troporobo said:

I do both. My catalog (and hard drive) is organized by date / trip / location, then I have separate collections by genus or theme, e.g. “turtles” or “walls”. I’m too lazy to keyword individual images.

Ok thanks for sharing ! In the case you're too lazy to id species and tag individual images, would you be interested in trying my plugin ?