Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Aromia moschata on Heracleum sphondylium 01.jpg
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Voting period ends on 23 Oct 2024 at 14:41:58 (UTC)
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Info This image was the picture of the year 2022 at Swedish Wikipedia (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%C3%85rets_nyuppladdade_bild/2022). Aromia moschata, a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle, feeding on a hogweed right by the Baltic Sea, in Nynäshamn municipality in Sweden. *Created, uploaded and nominated by Simiha -- Simiha (talk) 14:41, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Support -- Simiha (talk) 14:41, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
Comment How large is this beetle? I would like to support because the composition is great but I'm not sure that the image quality is close to our best. Cmao20 (talk) 23:06, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hiǃ My estimate is that this beetle was just about three centimetres long. The ordinary length of the species is 1,5 to 3 centimetres. Pleased to hear you are happy with the composition - a significant part of the overall impression. Simiha (talk) 23:47, 14 October 2024 (UTC)
- A more accurate answer - but still an estimateː the beetle was about three cm long including the antennae, about 1,5 cm excluding them. Simiha (talk) 09:50, 15 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 19:32, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
Oppose Nice subject but detail level is too low for FP nowadays Poco a poco (talk) 19:44, 16 October 2024 (UTC)- Oppose With only 2,533 × 1,474 pixels, the resolution is quite small, and there is noise in the background. I have a picture of beetle from this family in the same gallery since 2019, with 5 times more pixels, and almost no noise. Also, there are two weird bright lines on both sides of the image -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:48, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
- Five times more pixels certainly makes a difference in quality. I found your File:Gerania bosci bosci (longhorn beetle) on a coconut (focus stacking).jpg - Wikimedia Commons after first having spent some time watching through all your uploads 2019. It was a nostalgique voyage back to some of the places I have visited - Laos and Ujung Pandang being among the favourites. - As far as Aromia moschata is concerned, I know where to find them again, next summer, hopefully being much better technically equiped by thenǃ The question is - what to choose, full format or... Simiha (talk) 22:30, 17 October 2024 (UTC)
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- Good pick :-) Thanks for your research and comment. Here another one from 2018 also with more pixels, while smaller in size (the body is only 12mm length). Same light and same iridescent aspect. Sure the equipment is important, and it looks like this picture was taken with a Panasonic compact camera DC-TZ200. However, the sensor resolution is supposed to be 5492 x 3661 pixels, far more than the current nomination. So perhaps this picture has been downsized or cropped? Of course better equipment tends to give better photos, nevertheless it happens that very good shots from compact cameras, and even mobile phone's, get promoted here. Nice to hear you've visited Laos, and good luck for your photographing work in the future! -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:20, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you @Basile Morinǃ The picture is downsized and cropped. Also, I have used the automatic focus stacking function of the camera, without being very familiar with it. I uploaded File:Aromia moschata on Heracleum sphondylium 01b.jpg (3,504 × 2,336 pixels) today, without any manipulation I am aware of, for comparison with the nominated picture. I have also uploaded a "02b" - the quality is more or less the same, malheureusement. - It was interesting to hear that it has actually happened, that shots from compact cameras and even mobile phone's have been promoted, I was hesitant about this. If possible and it you ever have time, it would be interesting to see some samplesǃ Best regards Simiha (talk) 13:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- This FP, for example, was taken with a compact camera -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:11, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you @Basile Morinǃ The picture is downsized and cropped. Also, I have used the automatic focus stacking function of the camera, without being very familiar with it. I uploaded File:Aromia moschata on Heracleum sphondylium 01b.jpg (3,504 × 2,336 pixels) today, without any manipulation I am aware of, for comparison with the nominated picture. I have also uploaded a "02b" - the quality is more or less the same, malheureusement. - It was interesting to hear that it has actually happened, that shots from compact cameras and even mobile phone's have been promoted, I was hesitant about this. If possible and it you ever have time, it would be interesting to see some samplesǃ Best regards Simiha (talk) 13:07, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Good pick :-) Thanks for your research and comment. Here another one from 2018 also with more pixels, while smaller in size (the body is only 12mm length). Same light and same iridescent aspect. Sure the equipment is important, and it looks like this picture was taken with a Panasonic compact camera DC-TZ200. However, the sensor resolution is supposed to be 5492 x 3661 pixels, far more than the current nomination. So perhaps this picture has been downsized or cropped? Of course better equipment tends to give better photos, nevertheless it happens that very good shots from compact cameras, and even mobile phone's, get promoted here. Nice to hear you've visited Laos, and good luck for your photographing work in the future! -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:20, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 19:17, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose Quality of the bug close-up could be much better. I also notice the brighter framing around the image (Basile Morin noticed it as well). I suspect it's a result of cropping with unnecessary options in editing software (such as antialiasing the selection, and feather zone around selection). --Tupungato (talk) 14:50, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Simiha (talk) 16:15, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
