IMatch Categories Q?

Hi George,

I think that I should have asked this first.
What is your goal in recording the gender?
If it is to provide information to viewers, that could be done in 
properties. 'Male Pintail and female Mallard'.
If your goal is to improve search capabilites, categories should be 
better but in that case could you use:
Sex
      Both
      Female
      Male
      Unknown

Richard

geopappas2 wrote:
This question is for those of you that do nature photography,
specifically animals:

I have been testing IMatch for the past few days. IMatch seems to be
a category-based system. That is, you build categories that suit
your photo needs, and then you add categories to your photos.

I do a lot of nature photography, especially birds.

I have set up a main category called Birds, with sub-categories for
each type of bird underneath. If there is more than one type of bird
(for example ducks), then I create another set of categories
underneath:

Birds
	Bittern, American
	Blackbirds, Red-Winged
	Bluebirds, Eastern
	Cardinals, Northern
	Catbird, Gray
	Chickadees, Carolina
	Cuckoo, Yellow-Billed
	Doves, Mourning
	Ducks
		American Black Duck
		Green-Winged Teal
		Hooded Merganser
		Mallard
		Northern Pintail
		Wood Duck
	...
	...
	...


My question is what to do with the gender of birds. The gender of
many birds can be told by their plumage. For example, the male
Northern Cardinal is bright red, whereas the female is mostly light
brown.

How do you guys handle gender?

I can see two solutions at this time:

(1) Add another category for the gender, such as:

Sex
Male
Female


But then I run into problems if the photo has a male of one species
and a female of another. For example, a Male Mallard and Female
Northern Pintail. Because then the Male and Female categories would
both be checked, and it might like there is a male and female
Mallard or a male and female Pintail.

(2) Add a subcategory for each bird where the gender can be told
apart. For example, that would turn the above categories into:

Birds
	Bittern, American
	Blackbirds, Red-Winged
		Male
		Female
	Bluebirds, Eastern
		Male
		Female
	Cardinals, Northern
		Male
		Female
	Catbird, Gray
	Chickadees, Carolina
	Cuckoo, Yellow-Billed
	Doves, Mourning
	Ducks
		American Black Duck
			Male
			Female
		Green-Winged Teal
			Male
			Female
		Hooded Merganser
			Male
			Female
		Mallard
			Male
			Female
		Northern Pintail
			Male
			Female
		Wood Duck
			Male
			Female
	...
	...
	...

As you can see, this creates a LOT more categories.

I also shoot dragonflies which has the same gender issue.

Any opinions would be greatly appreciated.






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