Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carpenter Bee head

Carpenter Bee head and compound eyes edit

 
Original - Head of a carpenter bee showing the compound eyes. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Reason
Another renomination, it hardly received any attention during its first run. Good quality, EV and wow. Also, been stable in article for 3 months now.
Articles this image appears in
Eye, Carpenter bee
Creator
Muhammad Mahdi Karim
  • Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 12:49, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose It's a good image, but I think it is too blurry. Dogposter 19:48, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support I guess the blur doesn't interfere too much with the main idea of the image. Dogposter 19:50, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Perhaps a cropping of the edges would make it seem less blurry? Nezzadar (speak) 20:18, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak support It's interesting and informative, good-enough quality and considering the extreme macro a lack of depth of focus is inevitable, even desirable to distinguish salient parts of the beastie from the rest of it. I'd say a little too much effort has gone into sharpening that which wasn't sharp and not enough into lighting and composition, which has introduced harsh highlights and cropped the antennae, respectively. --mikaultalk 22:02, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose. I've left off because I'm kinda neutral, tending oppose. For illustrating eye, I would like more of the image focused on the eye. This FP does a much better job in that respect. It might be hard to do with this particular species... It's a reasonably good closeup, but the cutoff antenna make me feel it isn't FP quality for an illustration of the front parts of Carpenter Bee. It's a good image, which does have some "wow", just not quite there in either article, unfortunately. Mostlyharmless (talk) 23:38, 14 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Shallow DoF. - Damërung . -- 00:19, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 11:46, 19 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]