Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Fósil de erizo de mar (Glypticus hieroglyphicus), Foug, Francia, 2021-01-16, DD 001-090 FS.jpg

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•  Info Focus stacked image (composed of 45 frames) of a complete stock of a sea urchin fossil (Glypticus hieroglyphicus), Foug, France. The exemplar has a diameter of less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) and belongs to the middle Oxfordian and is approximately 160 million years old. c/u/n by Poco a poco (talk) 21:59, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 21:59, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:40, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Weak support IMO good photo considering the diameter of less than 2cm, and the extremely high resolution - the actual detail captured here is quite amazing even if not fully sharp at full size. I do wish the light were more compelling though, the kind of pic that's crying out for raking light and feels lacking in contrast as it is. Cmao20 (talk) 23:19, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --GRDN711 (talk) 23:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 07:03, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --IamMM (talk) 07:29, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 07:37, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:58, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Looks like some sort of dessert you might like a lot more than you expected to ... Daniel Case (talk) 21:34, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:57, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose There's a distracting halo round the upper half of the left fossil. It starts grey near the surface and then goes brighter and then dims again. The image also gets darker in the left bottom corner and middle, as though the left photo has a vignette. (If this doesn't show on your monitor, open in an image viewer like IrfanView and shift the gamma down to darken it, which makes it very obvious). The right fossil has a thin white ring all around its upper half, possibly due to oversharpening. But the critical flaw is that these are interesting semi-spherical objects with surface details, and the all-around lighting here is the worst choice to demonstrate any of that form and texture. It's like "How can I light this in the least interesting way?" Like an ebay photo, not photographic art. -- Colin (talk) 12:50, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Lmbuga (talk) 13:58, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment I've removed some kind of vignetting at the top of the image and improved the crop so that it's more balanced Poco a poco (talk) 16:27, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:37, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:35, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment I don't think the images are to scale. The white background does no favours. Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:36, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

  Charlesjsharp: What is wrong with the scale? looking at both views the one on the right does have actually a smaller diameter than the one of the left but as the bigger area is closer to the camera it seems to be bigger. Regarding the background, well, a matter of taste I'd say. I've played around with dark and bright backgrounds and both matte and shiny Poco a poco (talk) 08:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

• Yes I can see it is closer to the camera, but it should be re-sized. Could you try a coloured background? Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:23, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
• I don't think that the object was substantially closer to the camera, but the fact that the shown side was the biggest one, makes it look bigger IMHO. I can try a coloured background but then a real one and without editing. It can take me some time though I have a big backlog of underwater images Poco a poco (talk) 16:17, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 13:26, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Bones_and_fossils#Phylum_:_Echinodermata