Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Chlorotabanus crepuscularis, Green horse fly, Duck, NC 2016-01-07-14.51 (23927025329).jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Arthropods
•  Info created by Ashleigh Jacobs of USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab - uploaded by User:Rhododendrites - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - I know that several FPC regulars are on record as preferring photos of happy, living insects, but I find the level of detail in this photo extraordinary. I saw it in COM:Valued Images and didn't submit it to COM:QIC first before bringing it here, so I hope there's no glaring technical flaw that escaped my notice. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:33, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
• Seems good, but some wider crop would help, eyes are on edge. --Mile (talk) 07:42, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - I think you should consider this photo pretty much as is, because I don't think the Flickr user who took the photo is going to come here and add more to the side of it. Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment “This specimen was collected in...”. Could we accept killed animal here, if this was type of "collection" ? --Mile (talk) 09:10, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• We already have quite a lot of killed animals as FPs. --cart-Talk 10:37, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Fossils, yes. Then they say please add Geolocation. You know, geolocation, what was Earth like in Creda, Jurasic era or Trias...etc. Ok, leave that out. I am wondering something different since the beggining. I saw they use a Stackshot Sled, i am not sure that is perfect idea, you move your camera, shouldnt be moved just lens ring to focus ?! Ikan, Cart,... ? --Mile (talk) 14:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Stacking methods is not my area of expertese, sorry, but there are several ways of moving the focus over an object. They may vary with the camera used. Btw, I wouldn't call this a fossil. --cart-Talk 15:56, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment OK, but does anyone want to support or oppose a feature for this? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:40, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• Ikan Kekek I will be absent here. Two majors: tight crop and black background isnt suitable for yellow subject. Otherwise still nice work at least to see side macro. --Mile (talk) 18:19, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

• You're right, too much talk. I'm sorry, but I  Oppose this. It's a good photo of a bad specimen, clearly taken with only the scientific properties of the photo in mind. There are much better ways to focus stack a dead fly, even the most basic sites of stacking macro have more interesting and artistic photos. This poor critter looks mangled, like it had an encounter with a windshield, from what I can see it has lost half a leg. It holds no wow for me. cart-Talk 19:17, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - It might be a rare fly. From the file description: "A beautiful pale white and green horse fly from North Carolina, Chlorotabanus crepuscular, a drinker of blood that comes out only at dawn and dusk, this is a southern species I had not seen before". I also find the eye pretty amazing. I take your points, except that I don't really know the intricacies of stacking. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:51, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Support This is an excellent example of focus stacking, recalling the works of Richard Bartz, which I miss a lot. But please, let the poor thing breathe and provide some more black space ahead! :) -- ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alvesgaspar (talk • contribs) 22:46, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Comment I went ahead and uploaded a new version with some added blackspace. You can find that version here. Not knowing the rules for making changes during FPC, I restored the original for now. — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:36, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment - Thanks, Rhododendrites. The usual procedure is to post the new version and ping everyone who's already voted, or otherwise, you could offer it as an alternative. But people won't vote based on a link. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:05, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Done Restored. Though, obviously, this only addresses [I think] the cropping issue, which was not the only issue raised. @Ikan Kekek, Alvesgaspar, W.carter, PetarM, and Daniel Case: — Rhododendrites ^talk |  23:39, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 21:35, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support If so. Whish other color of back was there, good anyway. --Mile (talk) 06:38, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 09:20, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 19:08, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 6 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 15:04, 24 November 2016 (UTC)