Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Yellow Admiral - Vanessa itea.jpg

Yellow Admiral edit

Original - Yellow Admiral, Vanessa itea

Tony Wills' image of Vanessa itea (without wing damage). Not for voting

Reason: High quality macro shot.
Articles this image appears in: Yellow admiral
Creator: Fir0002

Support as nominator --Fir0002 12:53, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Image appears borked. :( Would you mind a reupload? MER-C 13:36, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind - servers just had a hiccup. MER-C 14:10, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Still can't see it. Zoo Fari 19:21, 11 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's really odd - the image is still there and regenerating the thumbnail works. See WP:VPT#Extreme slowness? for more about the server problems. MER-C 03:50, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It looks okay now. Odd. Zoo Fari 05:51, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This slightly battered butterfly is surely not the best example of the subject. Also the exposure (flash?) or subsequent processing have lost the subtle blue areas - the centre of the roundels on the rear wings, the pale line at the rear wing tips and sometimes also seen on the edges of the front wings. Perhaps the red channel has been boosted too much to highlight the red and orange areas. The lack of texture in the pale yellow and white areas suggests they are over exposed. Not your best work :-) I will see if I can find a better example for the article page :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 11:55, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Not sure what you're referring to in terms of blue areas - the image you put in the article doesn't demonstrate them neither does the field guide I used to identify this photo. Furthermore very little processing was done to the image and we've had battered butterfly FPs before... --Fir0002 11:02, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Look carefully at the pale lines at the tips of the rear wings, my photo doesn't show it as well in the centre of the dark round circles on the rear wings but it is there too. Not a major feature for sighting them in the field maybe, and also not at all evident in your photo but noted by others[1]. Better educational value to find a complete specimen and better detail don't you think?. --Tony Wills (talk) 12:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here's another that shows it a bit better File:Yellow Admiral 08.JPG (The image straight from the camera, needs a good crop etc) --Tony Wills (talk) 23:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm still not 100% sure what you're referring to (perhaps circle them out) but I'm assuming you're talking about the very pale blue lines on the inner edge of the wings? In which case you will of course note they are present in my pic but not in a particularly blue hue. If they are "supposed" to be blue, it's quite trivial to tweak the image to make that happen --Fir0002 10:50, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support Nice image, but to increase its EV, the article that has the image would be expanded. :) --Caspian blue 17:00, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted No quorum. :-( --wadester 16 03:55, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]