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Huntsman Spider


Good sharpness, reasonable DOF, and I like the white bg. Really hard for me to pick from the different versions. Please have a look at these: Image:Huntsman spider white bg04.jpg, Image:Huntsman spider white bg02.jpg and see if one of those looks better to you.


 * Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 08:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't like the unnatural white or grey background. Froggydarb 08:53, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Question. Was it shot against seamless background paper, or has the spider been pasted there? --Pharaoh Hound 13:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Answer The spider was on my window (probably hunting flies attracted to my light. So I got my brother to hold up a A2 piece of paper as a good backdrop (much better than the inside of my room!) went outside and took the photo with a flash. Turned out well IMO. --Fir0002 22:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Question weird looking, it looks 2D and strange
 * Comment. It looks a little strange with the background being bright white. I don't know... Cab02 16:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Question: Why do you let these monsters near your room?! &mdash; BRIAN 0918 &bull; 2006-07-07 04:30
 * Oppose Unfortunately, the burned-out background makes this look like a cut-out. --Janke | Talk 16:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)7
 * Oppose. The white background is unnatural. Cab02 19:04, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose A good enough picture, but not really featured picture material in my opinion. Agree with above comment about the white backround. Cfslattery1 23:39, 7 July 2006 (GMT)
 * Oppose indeed we have this white-backgrounded snail as a FP, but the above out-of-nothing spider is far more unnatural.--K.C. Tang 03:35, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Week Support IMO the change of color in the backround improved the pick a lot. I would like it to be a bit darker though.Nnfolz 08:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Done, using the "darken" layer style in Photoshop. --Fir0002 08:13, 8 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Support edit 1. The darker background looks much better. Cool spider, makes me want to visit Australia even more (that was not sarcasism, by the way). --Pharaoh Hound 12:28, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. There is already a featured picture of a huntsman spider here: [:Image:Huntsman_spider.jpg]
 * Support The darker background looks a lot better. Cab02 14:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I don't know why, but the white background gives the impression of a plastic option. --Philopedia 16:13, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Preference for original (white bg). Edit 1 arguably looks better in thumbnail, but white bg looks better at full size. This is better than current huntsman FP. --jjron 10:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Doubt Neutral So there's already a pic of this creature that has been featured. Do we really need another, though every image should be considered seperately?--K.C. Tang 07:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose good pic, but it looks like its floating. -Ravedave 03:33, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It doesn't matter to me that there's another similar FP. Each image should be judged on its own merits, for better or worse.  The existence of another similar image should have no bearing.  However, this type of image is of academic interest only.  The composition, lighting, etc almost don't even matter.  The point of the image is to accurately illustrate the spider.  It serves that purpose, but I don't think it's FP-worthy on that criterion alone.  I doubt there are many such images I would support for FP status.  (FWIW, I wouldn't support the existing FP either, if it came up for vote today, for the same reasons.) -- moondigger 04:00, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 06:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)