Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:LibellulaCroceipennis 6561PMax.jpg

File:LibellulaCroceipennis 6561PMax.jpg, featured

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals
Info created by Davefoc - uploaded by Davefoc - nominated by Davefoc -- Davefoc (talk) 18:36, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Davefoc (talk) 18:36, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:13, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral It looks nice, but we had a much sharper insect portrait in the Picture of the Year contest. --Tremonist (talk) 12:18, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
CommentThank you for the comment Tremonist. I have uploaded a new version of the file in an attempt to address the issues you mentioned. The main change to the new version is to increase the resolution a bit. I manually edited the output of the stacking program to improve the sharpness in a few areas, but mostly any non-sharpness was in the underlying images or the result of physics that cause some problems I didn't expect. A front part of the subject will be significantly out of focus when part of the subject towards the rear is in focus and the blur from the out of focus part can interfere with the in-focus part of the subject at the back. I could have used a smaller aperture which would have helped this problem (or just left the wings completely out of focus). There were a number of things going on when I took the picture (wind, clouds, the dragonfly was moving) and I opted for a little faster shutter speed to deal with them but of course the trade off was a little smaller depth of field on the individual images. Anyway, whether I've changed your mind or not with my edits, I enjoyed the opportunity to push the limits on how I could improve the image. Thank you.--Davefoc (talk) 02:18, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support more than sufficient quality, very interesting composition, in short: wow --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:09, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ocelli are clearly visible, i agree, D kuba (talk) 09:12, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Outstanding. I wish we had more of this kind on Commons. Thank you for this great image! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 13:24, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wow for me. Given sufficient “wow factor” and mitigating circumstances, a featured picture is permitted to fall short on technical quality. The quote is from the guidelines :) --Laitche (talk) 18:13, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lots of wow for me as well. --El Grafo (talk) 21:45, 18 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely a lot of wow here. -- Pofka (talk) 18:56, 19 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer 11:07, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Arthropods/Odonata