Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vipera xanthina

Vipera xanthina
Voting period ends on 22 Jan 2013 at 17:16:20 (UTC)
 * Reason:Good quality and high EV
 * Articles in which this image appears:Vipera xanthina
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Reptiles
 * Creator:Benny Trapp


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 17:16, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Quality is decent, DOF comes out a bit narrow despite a fairly large aperture being used, but focus is in the right spot, and we unfortunately can't see the tail. Probably taken in captivity which some regard as a negative (although this is not disclosed). Wish the species name could be sorted, this illustrates the Vipera xanthina article, but is titled Montivipera xanthina which is potentially confusing. --jjron (talk) 09:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems Montivipera xanthina and Vipera xanthina are synonyms. Not a fan of very shallow DOF; shorter focal length with a full frame makes the situation more worse. J Kadavoor J e e 09:10, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, they are, but unfortunately amongst the 8 synonyms already listed in the article Montivipera xanthina is NOT one of them! Apparently there's a taxonomic dispute about splitting the Vipera genus, with Montivipera one of the proposed new genera (or something like that). As I say potentially quite confusing when someone clicks through from that article to find a picture with a different species name, that is not even one of those given in the article as a synonym, and the article's species name is not given as a synonym on the image page. --jjron (talk) 14:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Support though I agree more DOF would have improved the image. Adam Cuerden (talk) 20:11, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Overall looks good. Brandmeistertalk  23:53, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support The shallow depth of field isn't a huge deal, because that which is out of focus consists of more or less the same repeated pattern of scales etc as that which is in focus. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:16, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. The lighting looks artificial, but considering it's a fucking viper, I guess we can make an exception :) Kaldari (talk) 21:55, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 17:29, 22 January 2013 (UTC)