Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tobacco Hornworm

Tobacco Hornworm edit

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Original - Tobacco Hornworm (Manduca sexta) measuring about 10cm in length

Reason: High resolution macro shot. Image is lit using a home-made ring flash adapter to obtain even shadowless lighting onthe entire subject.
Articles in which this image appears: Manduca sexta
FP category for this image: Animals/Insects
Creator: Dschwen

Support as nominator --Dschwen 16:29, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good composition, great detail. --Avenue (talk) 01:47, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. An excellent illustration. Mostlyharmless (talk) 02:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:32, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but I can't help but feel that an image of the full-grown moth should be the infobox (perhaps alone, but in addition to this works well too). J Milburn (talk) 09:58, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Focus not quite as I would have liked but the lighting is quite good. Any tutorials for the ring flash? --Muhammad(talk) 15:02, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I'll prepare one later today. As for the focus, please keep in mind the image has >12MP! --Dschwen 15:27, 14 September 2010 (UTC). P.S.: it is actually pretty close to this, only that I used sturdier cardboard for the back and added a V-shaped beam splitter where the flash enters (helps get the light distributed more evenly. --Dschwen 15:33, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Here is a picture of my contraption with some image annotations (so be sure to go to commons to view the image page). --Dschwen 15:09, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per above. Haljackey (talk) 00:25, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. High quality macro shot. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:41, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - excellent detail and color. It would be nice to have a three-quarter view as with File:Hyalophora cecropia caterpillar.jpg but you can't have everything. :-) Tim Pierce (talk) 00:51, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The vignetting is pretty heavy. Sometimes it's hard too avoid in macro shots, but I just wanted to ask if any was added in post-production. Kaldari (talk) 01:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- No, the only thing I did in post was removing sensor spots and denoise the blue sky bg. This actually isn't vignetting, and the Sigma 150mm macro only exhibits vignetting at very open apertures. If I recall correctly it is probably a tree in the background. --Dschwen 02:05, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support. Good detail and composition. Not a huge fan of the lighting, but I suppose I'm nitpicking :) Kaldari (talk) 04:45, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 20:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice. What is the thing it is standing on? Can it be said too? Foldedwater (talk) 17:16, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I can try to find out. It is the fruit (or maybe unripe flower pod?) of a vine plant clingint to a mesh wire fence. --Dschwen 13:10, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Tobacco Hornworm 1.jpg Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:28, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]