Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Small garden banded snail on wet handrail 2.jpg

File:Small garden banded snail on wet handrail 2.jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals#Class : Gastropoda
•  Info A small garden snail in the rain. Because of its small size (about 2 cm) and the short DoF, the other photo taken from the side has a sharper shell, but I kind of like that the eyes are sharp and that it's looking at the camera in this. All by me, -- Cart (talk) 22:45, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Cart (talk) 22:45, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment Where is the focus... --Laitche (talk) 00:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

• I used the pinpoint focus and put it right on the eye stalks. --Cart (talk) 07:51, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Cart: The exposure time is 0.2sec so I think that is kind of motion blur or something. What do you think of that? --Laitche (talk) 10:41, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

• @Laitche: Sounds likely. Even if snails move slowly, they do move and the eyes can be very fast. I didn't want to go higher on the ISO since the snail was so small and the grain would have been too much. The main thing that fascinated me was that the surface tension of the water made it cling to the body since the snail was so small. It moved with its own little 'swimming pool'. That and the eyes looking at you made this stand out from other snail photos so I thought I might give it a try here. At full photo size it is huge compared to the actual size of the snail. I could downsize it to say 3000px like the seal below, that would make it sharp enough, but I choose not to. -Cart (talk) 10:59, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, indeed. This size is acceptable sharpness of the head part. Besides good composition and colors so  Support :) --Laitche (talk) 11:15, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

•  Comment [scratches head] Have to say I like the other one more. --GeXeS (talk) 06:32, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

• We all like different things. :) I can make it an Alt since they are so similar. --Cart (talk) 16:21, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

•  Oppose It's nice but sadly not sharp enough.--Peulle (talk) 21:22, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Support --Cart (talk) 16:21, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 21:24, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 02:22, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Yup. --GeXeS (talk) 06:08, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
•  Oppose Antennae not in focus. Too much background and foreground for me. Charles (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination --Cart (talk) 17:14, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 4 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Cart (talk) 17:14, 2 September 2018 (UTC)