Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Coenagrionidae2.jpg

Image:Coenagrionidae2.jpg - featured

•  Info A immature male of Azure Damselfly (Coenagrion puella). Created, uploaded & nom by --Richard Bartz 00:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Richard Bartz 23:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Calibas 04:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 05:50, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent composition. How do you manage to keep the insect still for 1/4 second? Freedom to share 06:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Its like hunting :-) --Richard Bartz 10:24, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    • What do you mean? Mammals can not stay still for such a long time? How and in what way are insects different? Do you catch them drunk after a party? :-) Freedom to share 15:10, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
      • I mean that you have to creep up on them in the early morning, before they had the first coffee :-) ... if you do it right they remain motionless without fear. If you're near the mark everything else is simple (click!) --Richard Bartz 18:06, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'm very sorry to oppose (you must not be used to ;) ) but this time I believe 1/4s was too long, resulting in blurry wings, this is obvious when compared to this (though I much prefer the composition and lighting in your pic). Benh 06:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  • you cannot get this soft lighting with a flashlight, so a slight nail-biter at 6 o'clock in the morning is part of the way, ecpecially when focussing a nervous leaf-tip. --Richard Bartz 09:02, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
    • I'm not expert, but I think I get your point. Also, I didn't mean to tell you to use a flash, but to show how much details were lost on the wings. Couldn't you have used bigger aperture to shorten exposure time ? Since you got it from profile, the damselfly may have fit in the focal plane. and with a 40D, you probably can increase ISO to 400 without noticeable noise (?). Benh 09:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
      • ISO 400 doesnt work well with tone value priority - The leaf wasnt straight in the focal plane, so f13 has fit well. I found a version with sharper wings :-)--Richard Bartz 10:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  •  Support better version ! -- Benh 16:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Info I have reuploaded the picture with sharper wings. --Richard Bartz 10:16, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Extraordinarily beautiful Fg2 10:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer 19:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --AngMoKio 20:12, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Vassil 08:54, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Lerdsuwa 14:43, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 22:31, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• 01:18, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Nice picture. --Kanonkas_(talk) 05:20, 15 June 2008 (UTC) too late

result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Richard Bartz (talk) 12:39, 15 June 2008 (UTC)