Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Acraea eponina.jpg

Reason: A very skittish and small butterfly and the difficult of photographing it can be seen buy the few if any (other than this) good quality pictures in the article. This is of both good quality and EV
Articles this image appears in: Heliconiinae, Acraea (genus), Acraeini
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 16:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Attractive shot but prefocus (on the flower) has lost a lot of detail. The bug bar being very high, I'd have to say no. --mikaul^talk 21:30, 14 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I was thinking that too. MER-C 03:16, 15 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Actually it looks like motion blur to me. The butterfly is in focus (or pretty close to), but it has a slight diagonal blur that I'm assuming is due to camera movement. In any case, it doesn't quite stand out amongst the best macro photography. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Actually, it's probably movement of the butterfly rather than camera movement, as the flower doesn't seem to have any motion blur. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 08:57, 16 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per above. Just a side comment though, I would have liked to see this butterfly with its wings spread, not together. The underside of the wing is not particularly remarkable, so it would have had much better EV with a shot of the color on the wings, IMO. The wing pattern is used to identify, and I feel someone with only a little experience would have a hard time using this shot.Zulualpha (talk) 14:48, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 197 FCs served} 09:27, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]