Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/See no Weevil, Hear no Weevil, Speak no Weevil

Hazelnut weevil edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 31 Jul 2010 at 19:43:15 (UTC)

Original - The hazelnut weevil (also called the acorn weevil in America) Curculio nucum

Alternate 1: Different angle, which shows more of the mouthparts.

Reason: It's rare for a bug pic to make you stand up and take notice after a while at FPC, but when I saw this, I was really impressed.
Articles in which this image appears: Curculio nucum
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Mathias Krumbholz

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:43, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note There are a couple of equally good images of this specimen, seen from other angles, on the file description page of this one. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:49, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The front left foot is sort of 'ghosted', because of a focus stacking error. See commons nom. Jujutacular ^T · C 19:58, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I could probably fix that by copying missing details from the other foot. Would that be considered inappropriate manipulation? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 20:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - I think the angle is too different. Hopefully the uploader still has the original files. Otherwise, it's an awesome photo. Kaldari (talk) 20:15, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Mild support The image has EV, but there's something technically (standard) that I don't like about it. Gut Monk (talk) 21:15, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The angle feels awkward, I think this image rotated 90 degrees clockwise is a better orientation but the DOF is not as deep. - Zephyris _Talk 22:42, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I like that one too. I've put it up as an alt, and I Support alt. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:32, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Info Hello everybody! As Jujutacular already mentioned this is a focus stacking "test". It was my first try to stack a picture of a living animal and I didn`t take much care for composition. My whole interest was for taking the pics as fast as possible. During this I didn`t notice a little leaf that was between my lens and the weevil. So sadly even on every original file this critter has this ghostfoot-prosthesis. In fact, this is my first stacking try on a living thing I'm really happy with it but a FP?! But however, thanks a lot for nominating my pics (it is always a pleasure if somebody other than me likes my pics and think some of them could be a FP!) and also thanks to Papa Lima Whiskey for contacting me on commons. I hope I could answer some questions. Best regards Leviathan1983 (talk) 11:57, 23 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:10, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]