Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Bufo melanosticus 01.JPG

Common Indian Toad edit

Original - The Common Indian Toad or Common Asiatic/Asian Toad or Black-spined Toad, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, is a species of toad that is common in South Asia. The species breeds during the monsoons. Young toads may be seen in large numbers after the monsoons, and may grow to eventually reach 20 cm in length.

Edit Reduced highlight in eye.

Reason: 12MP photograph of this animal in its natural range, taken when the animal is naturally active (at night).
Articles in which this image appears: Duttaphrynus melanostictus, List of amphibians of Sri Lanka
Creator: Lokionly

Support as nominator --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:27, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support A better image could be taken in the daylight. The flash reflection in the eye is a tad distracting. Maybe worth cloning out? Jujutacular ^T · C 02:21, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I've added a version where the highlight is reduced. If you remove the highlight entirely, the toad looks as though blind. I feel that daylight images of nocturnal animals have the potential to distort reality, not only because the animals aren't going to look as active and poised as they do at night, but also because of the constriction of the pupil, which, as you perhaps noted in your comment about the eye highlight, influences human perceptions. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 13:51, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Makes sense, thank you. Full Support Edit. Jujutacular ^T · C 17:10, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Noisy. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 01:22, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- We generally prefer not to downsample images, so this image is being nominated at a slightly noisy 12 megapixels rather than the more common 1-1.5 megapixels that we see being nominated, at which resolution, this image would have no remaining visible noise, see for yourself: File:Bufo melanosticus 01 dwnsmpl.JPG. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:03, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, as per PLM's arguments above. J Milburn (talk) 10:22, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support per above. Noisy, but 12 MP. 68.160.182.96 (talk) 02:22, 18 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A quality image. Mostlyharmless (talk) 08:25, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~~either~~ original: Captured well, considering the nocturnal behaviour. Maedin\^talk 17:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Original- a pleasant image to observe. Abisharan (talk) 19:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Bufo melanosticus 01.JPG --Makeemlighter (talk) 07:13, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]