Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Eristalinus November 2007-2.jpg

Image:Eristalinus November 2007-2.jpg, not featured

•  Info A female hoverfly - Eristalinus taeniops - detail of the head and thorax. I yelled at the critter to stay still right on the middle of the flower while I was focusing but probably she wasn't listening. This is of course just an exercise of aesthetics with little encyclopaedic relevance. Created and nominated by Alvesgaspar 23:38, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Alvesgaspar 23:38, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral Amazing, but the crop seems a little off. Shouldn't be hard to fix, you've got plenty of pixels to work with. Calibas 00:02, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing detail, DOF, sharpness, background, composition and exposure ;) --Richard Bartz 01:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC) just joking :) --Richard Bartz 09:19, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
  •  Comment - That was an ugly thing to do, much uglier than the ugliest of your flies. But don't worry, I'll abstain from reviewing your pictures from now on :(( - Alvesgaspar 17:39, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
    • A vote with a aberrant course of business, which would be readen by 10 peoples ? It's not the end of the world i assume :-) If you try to explain this to a person who is not familar with Wikipedia, i'am shure he thinks there must be deranged people here, discussing or being busy with ugly flies. Ohmygod! ;) Should be understood as a discernment, for my part :-))--Richard Bartz 14:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral Solely for the shot of the three eyes at the top (whatever they're scientifically called). Dori - Talk 01:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Going with crop below instead. Dori - Talk 15:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose I do not find this more aestetic than current featured insect images. /Ö 14:09, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose for the following reasons:

1. Tilt of the fly, breaks the symetry.

2. The head ends up dead center, with too much flower out of focus behind.

3. The dark areas on top of the flower are distracting. If the color was meant to be used as an element, that creates a distraction.

4. The bottom of the torso, there is a curve that was cropped, it should have been included, it looks... cropped.

5. Not enough DOF.

--Tomascastelazo 19:36, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose As above. --Karelj 22:23, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 2 neutral => not featured. Cecil 11:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Image:Eristalinus November 2007-2 edit.jpg, not featured

•  Info A alternative with a different crop and a slight rotation to show the beautiful and unusal eyes of Eristalinus taeniops. --Richard Bartz 15:12, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support This edit is better. Dori - Talk 15:42, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Question Is that an antennae and is it missing the other one of whatever that is? -- carol 18:22, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't think this crop is much better, it doesn't do much for the composition IMO. It's not as encyclopedic now in any case. -- RedCoat 16:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I think the detail is amazing and am a bit surprised by the lack of interest on this picture ! Benh 22:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 06:59, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose For the following reasons:

Crop - the curve in the body is cut out at the bottom of the fly.

DOF - insufficient

--Tomascastelazo 17:55, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Oppose Unanswered questions and I don't even think that this image is worthy of being QI. -- carol 18:34, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured. Cecil 11:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)