Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gulf Fritillaries Mating 0019.jpg

Gulf Fritillaries mating

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Oct 2014 at 05:40:27 (UTC)

Reason: Scene very difficult to come by, much less capture on 'film'. Image is useful for its scientific and educational value
Articles in which this image appears: Gulf fritillary
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Umbris

Support as nominator – Gwillhickers (talk) 05:40, 18 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A fine image. Bit blurry thoug in the foreground. Hafspajen (talk) 00:32, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Bearing in mind that the butterflies are in focus, yes, the branch in the foreground is slightly out of focus, then comes into focus where the butterflies are lighting, and then continues on slightly out of focus again and exists the picture at right, which imo gives the image depth and adds to the overall composition. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 09:10, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Nice but the BG needs a NR --Muhammad(talk) 11:27, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I can help, Gwillhickers, if you don't know how to do a noise reduction. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In that case I turn into plain support. Hafspajen (talk) 14:28, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Crisco 1492 and Hafspajen: -- That would be great! Just so you know, I'm not using any special editing software on my end. i.e.I use Windows' Paint and also use XnView to handle sharpness, color saturation and hue when needed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 16:59, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco is the man. Hafspajen (talk) 18:56, 19 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Denoise supplied. Weak support as the DOF is a bit shallow, and the lower butterfly is somewhat OOF. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:07, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support The lower butterfly is not entirely in focus, but the pair stands at an angle to the camera, which makes the shot very difficult to get 100% right. The, uh, intimate moment capture makes up for the unfortunate OOF problem, IMHO. --Ebertakis (talk) 20:09, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support - per Crisco.--Godot13 (talk) 04:52, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very interesting and useful image. Rreagan007 (talk) 18:49, 25 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Gulf Fritillaries Mating 0019.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:32, 28 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]