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Hello Jay
Robert here - I was one of the 3 special speakers and the moderator of the SEO seminar at Internext which I hope you enjoyed. Sadly I did not get enough time to take everyones questions so I'm happy you posted this and hope that the answer is satisfactory.
Now as you know pictures tell a story. But if you have too many images, you risk huge impacts on speed
Google adjusts the ranking and indexation of sites that are found guilty of having duplicate content. However, this ONLY occurs if the content is deliberately copied to manipulate rankings or mislead users. Duplicate images aren't typically a primary concern for SEO ranking, but they can contribute to issues if they lead to duplicate content problems on your website
So to avoid duplicate image issues try to use unique image file names that accurately describe the image's content and create unique images for your content along with using unique titles, tags, and categories
NOTE one thing I mentioned is it saves on page speed a great deal if you consider WebP format rather than jpg for your images. Plus Google can't read numbers so actually name your images from 2345.jpg to isabella.webp
Now what if you use an image on other pages? Google generally does not penalize websites for using the same image on multiple pages, as long as the image is being used in a way that is relevant and appropriate for the content on each page.
However, it is a good practice to use unique images and to use alt text that accurately describes the content of the image.
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