Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Xanthippus corallipes.jpg

File:Xanthippus corallipes.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 25 Jul 2009 at 14:45:10

•  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Calibas (talk) 14:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

* Support --Calibas (talk) 14:45, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

• •  Oppose On second look, this picture is the height of mediocrity. It's composition is so standard you could train a robot to take photos like these all day long. While it's technical aspects are well done, the straight lateral view, the centered subject, and the even green bokeh in the background make for a horribly predictable photo. Dull dull dull. --Calibas (talk) 05:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 18:15, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 08:15, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Tiago Fioreze (talk) 16:57, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support good --George Chernilevsky (talk) 17:00, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Curnen (talk) 09:43, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --CopyrightFreePhotos (talk) 22:17, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support nice --Mbdortmund (talk) 22:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I have to agree with Calibas. Nothing new. I don't know why he nominated it and shortly after started this opposition, but come on - he is right. --Aktron (talk) 12:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
  •  Comment I was making a point, I'll leave it up to people to figure out what that is. I think I was also kinda drunk at the time. --Calibas (talk) 16:19, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
    •  Comment :D! —kallerna™ 15:16, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Calibas. —kallerna™ 16:26, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment Looking at the sequence of votes makes me think some people are born leaders ;-) --Tony Wills (talk) 13:20, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Depth of field is too shallow; just look at the rock: It appears as if everything but the locust has been blurred out. -- JovanCormac (talk) 13:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Huh? Why would you want to rock to be in focus? You'll notice the grasshopper is the subject of the photo, not the rock. And if you're implying I purposely blurred parts of the photo, I didn't. --Calibas (talk) 00:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

I apologize, you misunderstood me. I'm not implying you actually blurred the rock. Of course you didn't. The rock is just so out of focus that it appears as if it has been blurred out. The blur also covers the tip of the leg facing the viewer, and is quite uneven (there is a spot on the left side of the rock as well as a triangle beneath the grasshopper that is sharp). For these reasons, I believe this shouldn't become a FP. Maybe it can be edited a little (I think it would actually look better with an evenly distributed blur on the rock). -- JovanCormac (talk) 07:13, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Result: 10  Support, 4  Oppose, 0  Neutral => promoted. ☩Damërung ☩. -- 02:54, 26 July 2009 (UTC)