Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:European hornet 090621.jpg

File:European hornet 090621.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 10 Jul 2009 at 09:38:12

•  Info created by Aconcagua - uploaded by Aconcagua - nominated by Ra'ike -- Ra'ike T C 09:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support In my opinion a very authentic close-up of a hornet. -- Ra'ike T C 09:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Funny, good quality --kaʁstn 09:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Aqwis (talk) 13:34, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Question What do you mean with authentic close-up ?   • Richard • [®] • 17:16, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

  Hallo Richard, mit "authentic" meinte ich lebensnah (oder auch lebensecht). Damit wollte ich ausdrücken: Als ich das Bild das erste Mal sah, hatte ich das Gefühl, diese Hornisse ist noch mitten in der Bewegung, kommt jeden Moment aus dem Bild gekrochen und berührt mich mit dem linken, ausgestreckten Vorderbein ;-) -- Ra'ike T C 19:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

  Understand Before I did wonder about the term authentic because of the wood lath where the hornet is resting. Being a hobby biologist recently I had liked seeing this animal resting on a plant or the hornet nest like Alves Gaspar supplied us once with his fantastic poster of Wasps - but on the other hand hornets meanwhile are a synanthropic species so the lath should be ok. I like it and indeed it's an impressing picture but must give a  Neutral because of low DOF (f/2,8) ,the missing crispness at that size and the addressed environment. Nice going!   • Richard • [®] • 20:38, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Support --Brackenheim (talk) 04:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support like Ra'ike --Mbdortmund (talk) 15:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 08:47, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Low DOF (f/2,8), the missing crispness at that size and the addressed environment. (Per Richard Bartz) —kallerna™ 16:36, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

  The DOF maybe is a bit too low, but in this way it imo assists and reinforced the action of that animal. -- Ra'ike T C 10:47, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose as Kallerna, --Alchemist-hp (talk) 17:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support like Ra'ike --Mbdortmund (talk) 15:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Dislike leg on foreground and low DOF --George Chernilevsky (talk) 08:56, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Low DOF. Lycaon (talk) 17:09, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --Aconcagua (talk) 07:28, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

result: 8 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Maedin\talk 20:20, 10 July 2009 (UTC)