Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Phidippus otiosus

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Nov 2018 at 01:55:32 (UTC)

Reason: High resolution macro image, good composition, cleanly isolated from background
Articles in which this image appears: Phidippus otiosus
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Arachnids
Creator: David E. Hill

Support as nominator – Kaldari (talk) 01:55, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not enough general sharpness/definition and poor DoF. Quality possibly limited by camera. Line top left (scale?) doesn't work for me. Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:40, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- @Charlesjsharp: Although this looks a bit like a tarantula, it's actually a tiny jumping spider (about the size of a house fly). With a macro photo of something so small it isn't possible to have both better sharpness and DoF (due to diffraction softening). f/11 (the aperture setting that was used) is right in the sweet spot for an SLR sensor. If you pushed it to f/16 (for more DoF) it would be diffraction limited and start looking soft. Personally, I think the photographer made a good trade-off between DoF and sharpness as most of the spider is in focus, especially the part closest to the viewer. Kaldari (talk) 17:31, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Looking at your user page, it looks like you probably already know everything I wrote above. Do you know of any way you could improve both the sharpness and DoF (as I don't). Kaldari (talk) 17:49, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's not possible to get an FP of a tiny insect with a normal macro lens. I've photographed dozens but no FPs. The settings are fine otherwise. The secret is focus stacking or specialist camera equipment. Charlesjsharp (talk) 17:53, 7 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:54, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]