Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Female Tetraloniella sp.jpg

Female Tetraloniella sp

Reason: Good lighting, details and EV. Compared to the previous lead image, IMO the quality of this is outstanding. I maintained a loose crop to show the environment and to show that the bee is a solitary one.
Articles this image appears in: Apinae, Eucerini
Creator: Muhammad

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 18:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question Is it possible to clone out that distracting streak at the top of its body?
ZooFari 20:07, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply
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- Yes it's possible but I didn't find it distracting. If there is preference for an edited version, I don't mind uploading one --Muhammad(talk) 21:15, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Naa, I could live with it :-)
    ZooFari 07:03, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply
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Support - looks great. Would get rid of the scale though for the FP. Not sure what "streak" zoofari is talking about - the little speck of dirt? Doesn't bother me. Stevage 03:27, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- To be fair, Muhammad has started adding the scale at the request of various people here. I guess you can't please everyone, but a scale does certainly help the EV, even if it detracts from the aesthetics. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 06:55, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I support the use of scale (see current talk on discussion page), however for this particular image, the scale should be on the bottom-left (or bottom-right). The bee is looking toward the upper-right corner. Therefore our eyes are drawn there, and right now they see a distracting scale. Ksempac (talk) 10:00, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but the colour balance seems very warm. Do you shoot in RAW Muhammad? Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 07:00, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, I think the composition could be improved by cropping it just to the right of the foreground leaf and moving the scale to the above-left of the bee. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 07:02, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I had manually adjusted the colour balance during processing to what I remembered to be the right one. Uploaded edit which I hope fixes the points you raised. I shoot raw sometimes but this time I didn't. Is the scale and balance ok now?
    - I don't see a big difference in the colour balance (I would have made it slightly cooler but then again it seems to look much better than last time I saw it for some reason!) and the crop is much better now IMO. :-) Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:09, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support and Ksempac made a good point. Maybe the scale would be better on the bottom.
ZooFari 17:07, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply
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- I'd suggest the scales pretty much always look better at the bottom. --jjron (talk) 06:50, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Uploaded edit 1 Adjustments made: crop, colour balance, and scale moved. After the crop, little space was left at the bottom so I have just moved it to the left where it can be easily cloned out for those who don't want it.--Muhammad(talk) 19:36, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support any--Mbz1 (talk) 21:42, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support either. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Isn't the WB a bit yellow on this one too?
talk) 07:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply
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- See Diliff's comment above. I'm uploading a suggestion. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:28, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Quite likely (re comment on edit caption); colour balance problems are not always resolvable. --jjron (talk) 07:30, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Female Tetraloniella sp edit1.jpg When available, a cropped/zoomed copy is preferable. --wadester 16 05:08, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]