Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Episyrphus balteatus male - flying (aka).jpg

Episyrphus balteatus male flying, featured

Image:Episyrphus balteatus male - flying (aka).jpg with no shadow

•  Nominate

--Pjotr 14:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

•  Support --Pjotr 14:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral -— Atomo64 19:02, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support --FML ^hi 18:41, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- Get_It • 02:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing perspective. Amazing technique. Congratulations. --Martinroell 10:26, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Emuzesto 11:53, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support nicely done, good resolution, great technique. Although the back is quite blurry, but you can't have all, can you... -- Gorgo 12:55, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose amazing photo -- but that shadow, what's with that?? --Quasipalm 14:49, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- Luc Viatour 16:15, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
• comment Removing the shadow is hard, but here's my attempt at it —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 02:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
  • The shadow us there with the best of intentions. Otherwise you don't see that the fly is really flying, it looks faked. But if you really would like to use such a version, I will remove the shadow using the source, uncompressed picture, which results in a better picture quality than modifying a compressed JPG and saving it again. -- aka 06:24, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
    • Could you please upload the source image as a png image, it's always nice to have source material. —Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
      • What Ævar said :) --Quasipalm 14:00, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose the white background - might be good if the picture was supposed to illustrate the anatomy of a fly --CSamulili 09:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

But it can be a source to make others images with any background. IMHO --FML ^hi 21:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

•  Support - I prefer it with the shadow -- Joolz 20:54, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Oppose - don't like the un-natural white background - MPF 17:12, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Neutral --PedroPVZ 15:33, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
•  Support -- El Comandante 02:19, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

8 support, 3 oppose, 3 neutral => featured Peregrine981 03:37, 5 August 2005 (UTC)