Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Yellow insects on yellow marigold.jpg

File:Yellow insects on yellow marigold.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family_:_Pieridae_(Whites_and_sulphurs)
•  Info Vespidae (wasp) and eurema blanda (three-spot grass yellow) butterfly on a tagetes lucida (marigold), in Laos. Focus stacking picture from 7 photos. Created - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - I'm impressed. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:05, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support impressive indeed! How did you achieve to shoot all the stacked frames in time? --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:08, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

• When they're busy at work, these small animals are not so fearful. Then one can approach them quite close. I was manually shooting this yellow butterfly when a wasp arrived on my flower. Immediately I tried to focus on it, and among three shots, one got sharp (and that was enough). The butterfly is a montage from three shots. Once I had those both, I could take all my time to focus on the front of the flower (three more useful shots), even if the insects moved, the most difficult was won. Thanks ! -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:03, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Very good.--Ermell (talk) 07:11, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Nice work. Will support if you reduce highlights/overexposure on the butterfly. Wet season form? Good to specify for an FP. Charles (talk) 07:59, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

• Here it's the peak of the dry season. Now specified in the description. This picture may have weaknesses yes and I agree the legs of the butterfly are parts of those. I gave a try to reduce the light on the clearest parts of the body but didn't really get any significant change, and I don't want to create an artificial image that would look overprocessed. By the way, I got inspiration from one of your previous nomination, Charles : Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Large_white_(Pieris_brassicae)_underside.jpg. But it's difficult to be fully satisfied by a photo :-) Way to improve -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:15, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Thanks. Surprised that it is dry season as most of the images I can find online indicate that dry season form has brown mark on forewing. Charles (talk) 07:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

•  Support--Peulle (talk) 08:51, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 09:06, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Good thinking with the stacking process and a very good result. --Cart (talk) 10:46, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 10:54, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support very good! --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 13:03, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Solid. Daniel Case (talk) 14:49, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 17:04, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support per Cart -- P999 (talk) 18:28, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Beautiful! I was wondering what is up with the left antenna. It looks shorter and a bit fuzzy at the tip. -- B2Belgium (talk) 21:19, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

• Perspective. This indicates how short the DoF of one single photograph is -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:15, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
  • Ah, I see. Thank you! I'll be happy to  Support -- B2Belgium (talk) 09:59, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 05:52, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Nice catch Poco² 06:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 16:57, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 03:50, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 05:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! Details of flower and animals are amazing. Thank you for this photograph :-) --Tozina (talk) 18:07, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

• My pleasure. Thanks for this review -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:26, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --Yann (talk) 05:13, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik^(talk) 09:07, 29 April 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Family_:_Pieridae_(Whites_and_sulphurs)