Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Variegated Green Tree Python

Variegated Green Tree Python
Voting period ends on 25 Oct 2013  at 01:02:18 (UTC)
 * Reason:It's a HQ image of a very distinctive and beautiful animal displaying characteristic features
 * Articles in which this image appears:Morelia viridis
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
 * Creator:Mattstone911


 * Support as nominator --Mattstone911 (talk) 01:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose excellent colors and pose of the subject, but the focus problems are too great to say this is FP quality. --Pine✉ 05:50, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Support -- It's a beautiful picture and I don't see any problems with it. -- Dougie WII (talk) 06:30, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment -- By focus issues, are you speaking of the depth of field? I'll admit, it is a touch shallow on some parts of the body; but the reasoning behind shooting on the "wide open" side, was to pull the subject out of the clutter of its background.  Mattstone911 (talk
 * Comment -- I don't believe there is a focus problem or issue in this photo. I think that the focus point is correct and the desire for a shallow depth of field is appropriate, but this lens seems to be soft wide open and the sensor of the D90 doesn't yield great detail at ISO 1000. Tokugawapants (talk) 04:31, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- Color saturation is odd in a way that is characteristic of high ISO sensitivities (hight at least for this camera). Subject is not sharp and the photo is lacking fine detail, and this shortfall seems to be a result of the combination of high ISO noise reduction and the characteristics of the lens used. If the subject were truly rare and photography were remarkably difficult, the encyclopedic value would carry difficult weight, but there are other photos of this snake on the same page that, in my opinion, are technically superior and reveal more detail. Tokugawapants (talk) 04:54, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose very nice composition, but as said above, picture quality is not that good. Nikhil (talk) 12:02, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 04:56, 25 October 2013 (UTC)