Support as nominator --Fir0002 10:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment, leaning oppose - Why does it seem that the head is out of focus? ceranthor 11:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Head is in focus - the back of the head/start of thorax is slightly OOF due to being on a higher focal plane. Simply a limitation of the DOF available at f/11 - which is the largest practical DOF available. --Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose shallow DOF compared to your other images. The end of the insect is out of focus as well. ZooFari 16:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
See above - there are practical and physical limits to DOF. The angle was chosen to maximise the amount of body in focus and it was shot to the "f/11 macro standard" which has developed on FPC --Fir0002 08:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Apart from the out of focus areas, the size is pretty small compared to other insect FPs once the empty space is cropped out. --Muhammad(talk) 16:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Being a longicorn beetle its long antennae are a very important feature of the insect so can hardly be characterised as "empty space" - in that respect its is very similar to this shot --Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Since the antennae lead to the image having so much empty space and since the beetle is quite big you could upload a larger resolution to compensate for that. --Muhammad(talk) 08:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The extra 200px of background this had didn't add anything to the image so IMO its a fairly pointless gesture... --Fir0002 09:20, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose Focus a bit off the mark. Stevage 23:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I would have preferred a larger resolution for an insect this big. --Muhammad(talk) 11:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Good composition. I accept Fir's take on the limitations here and think the focus is acceptable. Maedin\talk 12:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
