Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Cicindela hybrida Richard Bartz.jpg

Image:Cicindela hybrida Richard Bartz.jpg, featured

•  Info created & nominated by --Richard Bartz 20:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Info Once again, the tiger beetles are a large group of beetles known for their predatory habits. As shown a Sandlaufkäfer 'Cicindela hybrida' which is 12mm in size. --Richard Bartz 20:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support For those who know --Richard Bartz 20:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Most Richard Bartz's should be FP's and this one is no exception. Freedom to share 20:58, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose  Neutral After all, this is better than most of the current nominations, so neutralized ;-) Lycaon 19:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC) First the good news: Colours are very good, so is composition. Then the less good news: DOF is not really sufficient and above all: this is not its natural environment, it's supposed to be sand! Did you manipulate the beetle (chilling)? They are normally notoriously fast. (compare with this picture). Lycaon 20:27, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment It was taken on a river bank and there was no sand far and wide. I can report that there was plenty of rocks and hedges. So i would say this must be his natural environment, maybe not cliché. About DOF, I think we can life with that, because i allways tried to get the maximum, as shown here with f/14 and 2/5 sec. Here and here the DOF on this kind of resulution was not a problem, too. So why not to change your vote to a neutral ? :) --Richard Bartz 20:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR 21:23, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- DOF. Dori | Talk 21:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Question - How could such a low shutter speed be used, in both photos? I'm asking the question because that is normally my hardest problem to solve. Was the beetle sleeping? - Alvesgaspar 22:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

In the morning after a cold night its easier to catch insects, because they are moreless dizzy. Thats why you see waterdrops in many macros. I think it is more difficult in Portugal because its too warm in the morning ---Richard Bartz 10:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

•  Support --Digon3 ^talk 02:24, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Ben^hello! 08:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Simonizer 09:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Acceptable beacause of hard subject. --Beyond silence 17:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 12:01, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. -- Slaunger 19:14, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Support oh, It is beautiful.--Archivaldo 08:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral - Few things are in perfect focus in this picture. If the insect was half asleep why not use a smaller F number? Also, I don't like the crop and the aspect ratio of the picture. More space is needed above and below the beetle - Alvesgaspar 14:14, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

More space would make this picture useless in articles because they often revertet my pictures with the reason that picture with a lot unused space in the background wastes too much space in the article. Another statement was "we dont need postcards" so i changed my concept, because my main-concern is the useability. It would make me sad if the pictures run to seed on the harddisk's on commons :) Therefore it cannot suit everybody --Richard Bartz 15:20, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 2 neutral => featured. Simonizer 14:45, 17 September 2007 (UTC)