Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Calliphora sp.jpg

Calliphora hilli

Original - Hill's brown blowfly (Calliphora hilli), Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, Australia

Reason

High quality, detailed focus stacked image.

Articles this image appears in

Blow-fly, Calliphora, Calliphorinae

Creator

Noodle snacks

• Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 01:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Question Is it flying? --Muhammad(talk) 02:16, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Nope, see the retouched tag on the image page. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Weak oppose I prefer the living, better focused version. --Muhammad(talk) 15:06, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Another question how come it is not focus stacked further in depth? Mfield (Oi!) 02:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Hairs causing major stacking problems. Noodle snacks (talk) 10:57, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Comment. This may seem weird, but I would prefer this picture with the pin still visible, otherwise it looks a bit surreal. Kaldari (talk) 16:12, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose, yeah, sorry, gotta say it just looks strange without the pin. Not at all natural looking. J Milburn (talk) 17:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. Nah. It seems to me the only point of removing the pin was to make the picture look more spectacular. I feel a little tricked, on first glance I thought holy cow, he got it in mid flight. Yeah, it is disclosed on the image page, but with respect to encyclopedic value the postprocessing is useless, or rather detrimental. Plus the subject is dead, it is not like we have a shortage of living fly shots... --Dschwen 18:48, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
  • Blow-fly, an article which already contains three featured pictures and another candidate currently on this page by Muhammad. Calliphora and Calliphorinae, already on FP in each of those and the last few edits just shuffled and replaced equally good images. --Dschwen 14:44, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose misrepresents itself at first glance, prefer a living version. Clegs (talk) 02:13, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:18, 10 September 2009 (UTC)