Decora Longicorn Beetle

Reason

High quality image of an interesting Australian beetle. Quite challenging to photograph without cutting off its large antennae

Articles this image appears in

Amphirhoe decora, Longhorn beetle

Creator

Fir0002

• Support as nominator -- Fir0002 10:28, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Comment, leaning oppose - Why does it seem that the head is out of focus? ceran thor 11:07, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Head is in focus - the back of the head/start of thorax is slightly OOF due to being on a higher focal plane. Simply a limitation of the DOF available at f/11 - which is the largest practical DOF available. -- Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Oppose shallow DOF compared to your other images. The end of the insect is out of focus as well. Zoo Fari 16:11, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
  • See above - there are practical and physical limits to DOF. The angle was chosen to maximise the amount of body in focus and it was shot to the "f/11 macro standard" which has developed on FPC -- Fir0002 08:21, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Comment Apart from the out of focus areas, the size is pretty small compared to other insect FPs once the empty space is cropped out. -- Muhammad (talk) 16:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
  • Being a longicorn beetle its long antennae are a very important feature of the insect so can hardly be characterised as "empty space" - in that respect its is very similar to this shot -- Fir0002 08:17, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
    • Since the antennae lead to the image having so much empty space and since the beetle is quite big you could upload a larger resolution to compensate for that. -- Muhammad (talk) 08:55, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
      • The extra 200px of background this had didn't add anything to the image so IMO its a fairly pointless gesture... -- Fir0002 09:20, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Weak oppose Focus a bit off the mark. Stevage 23:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Weak support I would have preferred a larger resolution for an insect this big. -- Muhammad (talk) 11:30, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Support: Good composition. I accept Fir's take on the limitations here and think the focus is acceptable. Maedin\ ^talk 12:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC) reply
• Oppose per stevage. Noodle snacks ( talk) 05:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Not promoted -- wadester 16 05:23, 9 July 2009 (UTC) reply