What to do with bad photos?

One of the goals of Plantarium is to provide high-quality and informative photographs that can help users in identifying species.

Issue

Poor quality photos clutter up photo galleries and spoil the mood of site visitors.

If you really want to know what species you photographed, but a photo has technical defects like

• blurriness,
• "shake",
• distorted colors,
• overexposed areas, etc.,

Solution

You should upload the photo on a some photo hosting site that does not impose restrictions on the quality of the images, and then show it on the Plantarium forum for identification (it will physically be on this photo hosting site).

Instruction

For example, let's take a look at the popular photo hosting "Flickr".

1. Upload your photo to Flickr (by clicking the "arrow in the cloud" icon on the top bar).
   
   It is desirable that the uploaded image is in the public domain ("Viewing privacy: Public"). Otherwise people who are not authorized on Flickr will not be able to view the full-size image.
2. If you are not logged in to "Plantarium" then log in.
3. Go to the "Plantarium" forum in the "Определение растений" ("Identification of plants") section.
4. Click on the "Start new topic" link.
5. In the "Subject" field, write something that you and other people understand (for example, "A yellow flower from the Caucasus" or "Found on the banks of the Kolyma").
6. In the "Message" field, write where and when the photo was taken: this can help in identifying the plant.
7. Switch to Flickr.
8. Open a page with a full-size photo of an unknown plant (if you are on the "Photostream" page, click on the preview of the desired image).
9. Click on the "Share Photo" button below and to the right of the picture.
   
10. Select "BBCode" in the opened window.
    
11. Select the size of the thumbnails from the list under the link (preferably no more than 400 px wide).
    
12. Select and copy the text from the field above.
    
13. Switch to the Plantarium forum page and paste the copied BBCode into the "Message" field. It is better to erase the extra code after [/img][/url].
14. Click on the "Create" button.
15. Visit the forum periodically and see what other members write about the plant you shot.