Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ladybird on pine cone

Ladybird on pine cone

Reason: It's beautiful.
Articles this image appears in: Coccinellidae
Creator: Vaelta

Support as nominator — Vaelta 11:16, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. White shine on insect. Also, if the insect has "unusual markings" then it doesn't really illustrate the subject in a general sense. Would you illustrate the "Dog" article with a photograph of a three-legged dog? Spikebrennan 18:15, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If it adds to the article, why not? I just illustrated a bird article with a one-legged bird. --Bagginz 07:23, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Great picture of a pinecone, but low enc for the bug itself. Also, for a picture that just barely meets size requirements, I would like to see more real estate dedicated to the lady bug itself.--Uberlemur 19:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The original image is 8 megapixels and several megabytes. Do you want me to upload that instead of a nicely resized version? And as for composition, unlike some Wikipedia photographers I could mention, I think it is actually more "encyclopaedic" to show things in their natural habitat. Oh, and the "white shine" is sunlight, a naturally occurring phenomenon. --Vaelta 19:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, if you do not mind, the 8 megapixel version would be much better; I would not worry about artifacts in an 8 megapixel photograph compressed to 1.5 megabytes or so. As is, the subject of the photograph is less than 130 by 105 pixels - really small. There is not much you could do about the shine except to keep shooting until it is photographed without the shine. J Are you green? 20:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Subject is far too small, annoying shine. J Are you green? 20:51, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

1) natural habitat 2) simple aesthetics --Vaelta 20:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot quite see what your reply means in response to my comments. Could you please clarify? J Are you green? 21:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I just mean that if I were to crop it to the ladybird it would then become an incredibly dull photograph, lacking in both context and artistic merit. --Vaelta 21:03, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In comparison to the full picture, the subject is so small that there is almost no detail. Unfortunately, the 8 megapixel version is so soft (it seems to have focused ahead of the ladybird by a few millimetres) that a crop does not add much detail from the downsampled verion. Perhaps a closer photograph in another contex would be better, but there is not much to be done about this one. J Are you green? 21:11, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 06:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]