Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Amanita muscaria

Amanita muscaria

 * Reason:I think this is a fantastic image of one of the best-known mushrooms - maybe a bit more open and mature than the "classic" image used in a million 1960s images, but I don't see that as a problem, given that if we only showed the classic stage of development, how would people know what the other stages looked like?
 * Articles this image appears in:Amanita muscaria
 * Creator:Tim Bekaert


 * Support as nominator --Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 02:12, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment The white balance seems very yellowish (Compare to File:Amanita muscaria Cuenca.JPG or File:Amanita muscaria 2.jpg). Any chance of a fix? Noodle snacks (talk) 05:16, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I've seen these fairly regularly - though not in a while - and I'd have said this was right for the mature mushroom, but there's some WikiProject Fungi people around, so let's see what they say. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:24, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support It would have better EV with the leaves removed at the base of the stem, and maybe the top is a little OOF, but otherwise it's solid. I see what you're saying about the yellow tint; however the stem color for the species is "white to cream" (gills "whitish"), and this is an older specimen, so its in the range of normal. Sasata (talk) 08:04, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose IMO, lighting is not ideal --Muhammad (talk) 08:42, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Strong flash photography is almost never ideal and although it does bring out the colours of the mushroom, it does look a bit unrealistic. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 11:17, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is just about to be delisted as a Commons FP because of the poor lighting. See Commons:Commons:Featured picture candidates/removal/File:Amanita muscaria tyndrum.jpg. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:59, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Reluctant oppose Shame about the lighting, which is too bright to see the detail of the gills even.Terri G (talk) 13:32, 25 February 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 06:13, 3 March 2009 (UTC)