Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Anole Lizard Hilo Hawaii edit.jpg

Anole

Technically excelent macro image of a Green Anole Lizard on a railing in Hilo, Hawaii. This appears in Polychrotidae, which contains no other images of this detail. I am the creator of this image. I avoided cropping the image further so as to show more of the full form of the creature. I am open to suggestions of cropping to show more detail in smaller renderings of the image.

Nominate and support. - Phirst 04:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support, despite cut off tail and out of focus foot still a great picture with awesome resolution. --Dschwen 06:56, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support edit 2 Support due to it being a great picture, the weakness of my support is due to the face and tail being soft on focus, and the foot being out of focus. HighInBC 15:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Right rear foot is somewhat out of focus but the quality of everything else kind of overrides that in my opinion. --Nebular110 17:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

That's unavoidable. To keep everything else in focus, stuff that's not on the same plane will have to get out of focus. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Edit 1. Great image - good detail and composition, although as mentioned by others, the whole tail would have been better. Edit 1 is a minor (but justified) improvement. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 20:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The focus is in the wrong spot - center of the lizards body, hence the most important part (head) is out of focus. --Fir0002 23:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The prime focus spot is actually the eyeball; you'll notice if you zoom the image that the bright ring near the edge of the eyeball is very sharp. The center of the body just happens to be at the same focal distance. Certainly the eye is the nearest part of the face and the shallow depth of field unavoidable is many macro shots like this does mean that the more distant parts of the face are soft. However, I believe it's generally best to ensure good focus on a subjects eye for images such as this. Phirst 04:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. A full depiction of a really long tail would (in a likely scenario) take away the nice detail. –Outʀiggʀ 00:55, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - that's exactly what I thought! Phirst 04:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - from the article, it seems that the green anole is the same as the Carolina anole? It shouldn't really affect voting here, but the Carolina anole page contains a picture of the lizard which is already a FP (which I personally prefer, though not enough to oppose this one) InvictaHOG 04:10, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support edit 2 good detail and colors --Luc Viatour 07:36, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Tail is cut off. Head is out of focus. Mikeo 10:31, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 2 Jesse 22:07, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very clear and contrasting. My only concern is that the image is incomplete because of the missing tail. --Midnight Rider 04:42, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Nice pic, but IMO cut-off tail precludes this from being FP. --jjron 06:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 2. Good detail, saturation, the edit has good sharpness. I'm not particularly bothered by the cut-off tail. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 15:31, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Missing tail spoils encyclopedicity, too shallow DOF. --Janke | Talk 16:56, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The detail is great, but at the resultions it will be most seen at (thumbnail and the medium resolution on the image page), the vices stand out and the virtues are still hidden. The tail is th biggest problem.--ragesoss 17:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support per Pharaoh Hound--Vircabutar 23:22, 3 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Don't care about which edit. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Anole Lizard Hilo Hawaii edit.jpg +12/-5 with most of the support going for edit 2 or showing no preference. howch e ng {chat} 22:57, 6 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]