Info Once again, the tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their predatory habits. As shown a Sandlaufkäfer 'Cicindela hybrida' which is 12mm in size. --Richard Bartz20:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OpposeNeutral After all, this is better than most of the current nominations, so neutralized ;-) Lycaon 19:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC) First the good news: Colours are very good, so is composition. Then the less good news: DOF is not really sufficient and above all: this is not its natural environment, it's supposed to be sand! Did you manipulate the beetle (chilling)? They are normally notoriously fast. (compare with this picture). Lycaon20:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It was taken on a river bank and there was no sand far and wide. I can report that there was plenty of rocks and hedges. So i would say this must be his natural environment, maybe not cliché. About DOF, I think we can life with that, because i allways tried to get the maximum, as shown here with f/14 and 2/5 sec. Here and here the DOF on this kind of resulution was not a problem, too. So why not to change your vote to a neutral ? :) --Richard Bartz20:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Question - How could such a low shutter speed be used, in both photos? I'm asking the question because that is normally my hardest problem to solve. Was the beetle sleeping? - Alvesgaspar22:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
In the morning after a cold night its easier to catch insects, because they are moreless dizzy. Thats why you see waterdrops in many macros. I think it is more difficult in Portugal because its too warm in the morning ---Richard Bartz10:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral - Few things are in perfect focus in this picture. If the insect was half asleep why not use a smaller F number? Also, I don't like the crop and the aspect ratio of the picture. More space is needed above and below the beetle - Alvesgaspar14:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
More space would make this picture useless in articles because they often revertet my pictures with the reason that picture with a lot unused space in the background wastes too much space in the article. Another statement was "we dont need postcards" so i changed my concept, because my main-concern is the useability. It would make me sad if the pictures run to seed on the harddisk's on commons :) Therefore it cannot suit everybody --Richard Bartz15:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]