Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cepaea nemoralis

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Mar 2012 at 00:17:07 (UTC)

Reason: A while ago I took a picture of a white-lipped snail, and as I was browsing Wikipedia today I noticed my old snail picture was being used on the banner. Cool! Anyway, that reminded me to upload this one, which I took last year. I think the picture might be a little oversharpened, but I have a pretty bad monitor right now, and when I was shooping to stack a few shots I wasn't sure if it was too much or too little....
Articles in which this image appears: Grove snail
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
Creator: Mad Max

Support as nominator --Mad Max (talk) 02:09, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support as re-animator. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 00:18, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support -- Seems a little OOF at the back of the shell. Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:03, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support both Tomer T (talk) 18:33, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Posterisation in background and mediocre sharpness. Background is also quite busy. Has a real digicam feel to it IMO. --Fir0002 03:01, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Impressive resolution, but extremely shallow DOF hurts it overall. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The focus claim is something you'll see on almost every single mollusc nom - due to the squishy translucent material they're made of, they just never look in focus. You can sharpen them, but then they'll just look dried up. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 08:28, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can see that along its "backbone" this seems to be in focus really nicely, but further back by its foot that's obviously oof, isn't it? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 11:44, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think we'd want the background to be much sharper, and I don't think the composition is worth changing either. I'm also not aware that there are any diagnostic features on the top of the hind end of the foot. Papa Lima Whiskey 2 (talk) 10:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:55, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]