Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Beautiful demoiselle male

Beautiful demoiselle male

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Feb 2019 at 12:49:46 (UTC)

Original – Male beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo). The largest damselfly in the UK

Reason: High quality large image. FP on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: beautiful demoiselle, Damselfly, Zygoptera
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator: Charlesjsharp

Support as nominator – Charlesjsharp (talk) 12:49, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support The head is slightly blurry, but other than that, this is excellent. There's possibly some slight overexposure in some of the highlights, but it seems the kind of thing that's unavoidable in any good photograph of this species, and does not detract. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.8% of all FPs} 13:45, 28 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
We have three FPs of this species already: File:ColapteryxVirgo.jpg A female, File:Calopteryx virgo male.jpg a juveline male and File:Beautiful Demoiselle Calopteryx virgo.jpg (not used) male, but will be nominated for delisting if my nomination is promoted. How is this one different? MER-C 11:27, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Good question, MER-C. I've indicated the differences above in bold. Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:03, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Second point - the image should be exported at a higher quality. There are noticeable artifacts in the bokeh. (I'm quite surprised that Commons FPC didn't pick up on this.) MER-C 13:17, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Exported at highest quality available. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:56, 29 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I see a halo around the dark wing - is it real, or just Mach bands? --Janke | Talk 08:53, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

so do I, but as it's not around all the wing I don't think it's from post-processing. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:12, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just checked in Photoshop - I'd say it's definitely an artifact; look at the blue channel - value changes 10-15 units near the wing. --Janke | Talk 14:37, 30 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn’t reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:13, 7 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]