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File:Swallow Prominent on a grey wall.jpg, featured edit

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Familia : Notodontidae
Info Ok, a bit of a gamble, but since we have dead bugs on white or black backgrounds maybe there can be a live one on gray. I was a bit surprised that we don't have any FPs of this family. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 23:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Cart (talk) 23:18, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 23:34, 23 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Harmonious colors. Yann (talk) 04:28, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Colin (talk) 10:29, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Grey on grey doesn't work aesthetically -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:30, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Aesthetics differ with cultures, Riksväven [1]. --Cart (talk) 12:31, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My feeling, of course. Quality image but not an FP -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:48, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
On Wikipedia, Grey#In nature and culture: radioactivity, smoke, meteorite, wolf, military academy, battleship... Grey is also the color of pollution. This animal seems enclosed in an artificial and industrial environment unfortunately. Then a bit depressing, in my opinion. Like this one, sorry -- Basile Morin (talk) 21:51, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, it is sitting on the wall of a medium-sized, gray-painted wooden house next to a forest. It's as far from an industrial environment as you can get, but you are of course entitled to your opinion. --Cart (talk) 22:38, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If this wall was white or green, the impression would certainly be different. And if this animal was shot in the forest also -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:08, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'm with Basile on the aesthetics. Moths are annoying in choosing boring light-coloured places to settle. Charles (talk) 09:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the info Charles, I didn't know that. Well, it makes sense they would seek out places to rest where they are a little less visible for predators, I guess. I'm happy to learn the moth is in a place it likes. --Cart (talk) 09:25, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support IMHO this “Shades of Grey” ;–) image has got a special kind of aesthetics; the absence of vivid colours emphasizes the structure, like in a Grisaille painting. --Aristeas (talk) 15:34, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Now we are talking... Poc o² 18:05, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support The specimen is beautiful. I've never focus-stacked myself, but I guess it's quite a bit surplus work. You can see the singular bristles and scales on the wall - which, I think, is not really focused, as well as the front legs. It drags my eyes... But I guess it just couldn't have been done better. --GeXeS (talk) 21:12, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GeXeS, I have to be totally honest and say that: Yes, it can be done better, if you have a DSLR (perhaps full-frame) and a marco lens, which I don't. I'm just happy it came out as good as it did. --Cart (talk) 21:24, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support although can anything be done to reduce the blown highlights on the right wing? Cmao20 (talk) 21:45, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not that much I can do since the white scales seem to be oriented directly at the sun in that area, with almost no shadows in between them. I have managed to retrieve some info from a few layers the stacking program hadn't used and patched it in now. --Cart (talk) 22:27, 24 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:24, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:04, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Cayambe (talk) 07:17, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 14:26, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:55, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Llez (talk) 05:29, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:29, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Booth sift 05:34, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 10:40, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Lepidoptera#Familia: Notodontidae