Thanks for getting back to me. Unfortunately this is not the issue I am
reporting. The problem is that the #+NAME that produces the label is
incorrectly exported to the LaTeX document. That is it is the weird
\label{fig:orgparagraph1} which is not what I am trying to label the figure
as.

You are right that [[fig:result_plot]] does produce the
\ref{fig:result_plot}, However, the reference appears unresolved in the
resulting document because the figure itself is incorrectly labeled.

Best,
Andrew

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:26 AM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Andrew Davis <amdavis@uchicago.edu> writes:
>
> > #+CAPTION: Plot of something interesting.
> > #+ATTR_LaTeX: :width \textwidth
> > #+NAME: fig:result_plot
> > file:./img/plot.pdf
> >
> > This method of placing plots into an org document no longer
> > works. Previously, this would correctly produce the figure with
> > a consistent label for internal references within the org document and
> > the exported LaTeX document. Now, the export results in the following
> > TeX code:
> >
> > \begin{figure}[htb]
> > \centering
> > \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{./img/plot.pdf}
> > \caption{\label{fig:orgparagraph1}
> > Plot of something interesting.}
> > \end{figure}
> >
> > As it can be seen above, the intended label of fig:result_plot is no
> > longer exported. This breaks any reference to \ref{fig:result_plot} in
> > the LaTeX document while the label of ref:fig:result_plot only works
> > within the org document.
>
> This is usually not an issue since [[fig:result_plot]] will results in
> \ref{fig:result_plot}.
>
> In any case, see `org-latex-prefer-user-labels'.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>