Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Decora Longicorn Beetle.jpg

Decora Longicorn Beetle

 * Reason:High quality image of an interesting Australian beetle. Quite challenging to photograph without cutting off its large antennae
 * Articles this image appears in:Amphirhoe decora, Longhorn beetle
 * Creator:Fir0002


 * Support as nominator --Fir0002 10:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment, leaning oppose - Why does it seem that the head is out of focus?  ceran  thor 11:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Head is in focus - the back of the head/start of thorax is slightly OOF due to being on a higher focal plane. Simply a limitation of the DOF available at f/11 - which is the largest practical DOF available. --Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose shallow DOF compared to your other images. The end of the insect is out of focus as well.  Zoo Fari  16:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * See above - there are practical and physical limits to DOF. The angle was chosen to maximise the amount of body in focus and it was shot to the "f/11 macro standard" which has developed on FPC --Fir0002 08:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment Apart from the out of focus areas, the size is pretty small compared to other insect FPs once the empty space is cropped out. --Muhammad (talk) 16:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Being a longicorn beetle its long antennae are a very important feature of the insect so can hardly be characterised as "empty space" - in that respect its is very similar to this shot --Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Since the antennae lead to the image having so much empty space and since the beetle is quite big you could upload a larger resolution to compensate for that. --Muhammad (talk) 08:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The extra 200px of background this had didn't add anything to the image so IMO its a fairly pointless gesture... --Fir0002 09:20, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose Focus a bit off the mark. Stevage 23:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support I would have preferred a larger resolution for an insect this big. --Muhammad (talk) 11:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: Good composition. I accept Fir's take on the limitations here and think the focus is acceptable.   Mae din \talk 12:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose per stevage. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

-- wadester 16  05:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC)