Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common Buckeye Butterflies in Artis Zoo Amsterdam

Mating Common Buckeye Butterflies
Butterfly
 * Reason:It is a high quality picture which can be used to show the common buckeye butterflies mating
 * Articles this image appears in: no links yet
 *  +  Junonia coenia Owl butterfly Zoo Fari  06:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Creator:Aseem Khurana


 * Support as nominator --Aforaseem (talk) 19:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It is quite a nice macro photo technically, but two major issues. It is difficult to discern the shape of the butterfly as the photo is actually of two butterflies overlapping each other. It also has to already be in an article to be eligible for FP. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:48, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't think any other composition will allow us to distinguish the two butterflies. After all, they are 2 mating butterflies with camouflage instincts. Describe it in the caption, though. However, Diliff is right about the links. Add them soon or opposes will keep coming.  Zoo Fari  03:01, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Aforaseem - The image now appears in the butterfly article.
 * Added it into common buckeye too.  Zoo Fari  06:49, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, this is an Owl buttefly, so the captions need to be fixed.  Zoo Fari  20:26, 2 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose Too much empty space for an encyclopedia. Portrait format would have fit better. Focus is ok. --Richard Bartz (talk) 00:29, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Would support a cropped version. I think this is of a high quality and does a good job. Too little of the picture is butterfly in this version however. Mostlyharmless (talk)
 * Weak support edit 1 --Muhammad (talk) 16:15, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose I would have to say, there is nothing really too convincing about this composition. The image on its own would've been plenty sharp, but you way oversharpened the shot, that the butterflies are developing sharpening artifacts, and the background, which should be smooth, in fact actually has granular noise.  The poor butterfly is actually sprouting halos on its antennae.  In my opinion, it's also a tad small to be a featured picture.  I would say, get the original shot, sharpen it SUBTLY and do it selectively for the butterflies only, crop it a little bigger, get rid of the slight yellowish cast on the butterflies and the bark, and upload it.  I would suggest nominating it for a QI rather than an FP.  It's just doesn't have that FP impact to me.  Spectacular capture otherwise. -- Bettycrocker (talk) 15:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 02:02, 8 May 2009 (UTC)