Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Euprotomus aurisdianae

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Jan 2022 at 05:00:30 (UTC)

Reason: Quality lead image of this sea snail endemic to the Indo-Pacific region.
Articles in which this image appears: Euprotomus aurisdianae
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Molluscs
Creator: H. Zell

Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 05:00, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Tentative Oppose – Black background is distracting and looks like photoshop rather than photographed on a black background. Silhouettes are tenting to be lost against the background, shells look too dark. ProfDEH (talk) 08:26, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's a mistake to disqualify half of the encyclopedic photos in the Molluscs category just because of the background. For inanimate specimen (particularly a multi-view collage), a flat background (photoshopped or not) is fine, if done well. @ProfDEH: what does "tenting to be lost" mean?! Is it a typo? Bammesk (talk) 00:37, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Typo obvs. The image is clear enough if you zoom right in but I do think it's unsubtle, looks crude at normal scale. EV no doubt but I don't think it's a good image. ProfDEH (talk) 09:48, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I think I see ProfDEH's point, though. This seems a bit harsher than most of the black background molluscs, but it's also incredibly encyclopædic. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 7.5% of all FPs} 08:49, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I agree with ProfDEH on this. The drop off between the shells and the black background is too sudden to the point of being distracting. GrantHenninger (talk) 18:43, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 17:48, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]