Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snail-WA

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[edit] Yellow Snail

The white-lipped snail Cepaea hortensis. Original by Every1blowz.

Edit 02, by Fir0002.

Edited, by wolfmankurd removed some blown highlights.

I think the image may be up to featured picture standards, and it has encyclopedic value too as it is currently in two articles, snail and White-lipped snail and could probably fit into more. The image was taken by me.

Hello everyone. Since no one has tested out Promenader's idea I took the liberty and did it myself. This edit should keep everyone happy (the field of view and the picture's composition are retained, the bright green leaves aren't as distracting, the blown out sky has been patched up, the size is reasonable for the file’s resolution and the image is slightly sharpened).

I have one request; please be a little more specific as to which edit you'd prefer. I've counted 12 votes so far that do not specify which edit they like so by default those votes count towards the unedited original. 9 votes prefer edit 2. --Every1blowz 13:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

The original seems to have beat all the edits by a few votes, so unless anyone plans to change their vote soon it has been 7 days so I'll go ahead and make the original a featured picture. --Life is like a box of chocolates 10:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

• Nominate and no vote. - Every1blowz 18:26, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Great detail, color, framing. Redquark 19:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Not especially intriguing, but encyclopedic. -- bcasterline • talk 20:52, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Great colors & encyclopedic. -Ravedave 21:43, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support. That snail is so cute! Good saturation, focus, and lighting. One request:could it be cropped more on the right side to eleminate that distracting bright-green patch. --Pharaoh Hound 21:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

• Very Strong Support for edit Two. Perfect. --Pharaoh Hound 13:22, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

• Support Stunning, Wikipedia's best work - agree about cropping out the right side a bit. Stevage 22:29, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

For clarification, my preferences in descending order are edit2, edit1, edit3 and oppose edit 4 ("edited") (which "fixes" blown highlights but does nasty things to the leaves). Stevage 11:21, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Support - everything's there, but instead of cropping (which would alter the composition) I'd suggest transposing a few leaves, or their tone, to cover those on the right. THEPROMENADER 22:56, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Beautiful, love the field of view. --Enano275 01:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support and support cropping the right side.--K.C. Tang 01:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Agree with Bcasterline. Good focus and details. Not particularly exciting, but definitely encyclopedic. -- Sprain 02:00, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support It's a beautiful picture. -- Nimakha 05:51, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

User's only edit --Fir0002 10:07, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

• Support My Edit. Really good image. Slightly sharpened and reduced file size of Froggydarb's edit by over a half (>1mb for that res is ridiculous and inconsiderate). --Fir0002 www 09:26, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Edit 2 - As above. Yeah, I shouldn't save them that large.Froggydarb 09:44, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 10:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Edit 2 by Fir0002 for same reasons. --jjron 11:10, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Great picture. Bonus Onus 12:37, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Very Strong Support- Edit No. 2 is fantastic. MosheA 14:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support edit 2. --Golbez 15:29, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Support (obviously this picture will be featured) I support Fir0002's edit Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 20:36, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
• Very Strong Support. Very awesome picture. --Life is like a box of chocolates 22:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
  • Comment Someone asked me to specify which version I liked. I like almost all of the edits because I just like the picture, but I can't really say any of edits have made the pciture any better. It looks about the same with me, so I'll just support the original untampered picture. --Life is like a box of chocolates 19:36, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support edit 2. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 13:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support - lovely, Edit 2 is prefered. HighInBC 13:48, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support. Edit 2. Excellent photo.--Hezzy 01:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support.Edit 1, great image.--Dakota ~ 05:03, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Support for edit 2 by Fir0002. Lovely photo. I've also made the captions for the edits a little more clear, if you don't mind. —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 10:49, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you got a little confused - I actually created edit 2. Updated captions --Fir0002 www 22:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Whoops! —Vanderdecken∴∫ξφ 11:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

• Support love this one Wolfmankurd 19:07, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Original, I like the extra framing it provides over the edits. - Hahnchen 19:56, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
• Support Edit 2 They're all VERY stunning but I like the second edit the most. Great picture!! Swollib 08:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
• Support Fir000000002 edit. Janderk 23:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Froggydarb's edit is the best IMHO - second one down. Nice contrast; full middletones. THEPROMENADER 00:33, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment: I've been asked to specify which version of the image I support. It's hard for me to tell the differences between them. Could the people who created the later versions please specify the changes that they've made? It's really hard to make a decision otherwise. Without being about to figure out which changes have been made, honestly, I like the first version. I don't see why the bright leaves were cropped out. This is subject to change if people explain why and what they did. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 16:22, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure but just by looking it's obvious froggydarb cropped the picture, but otherwise everything else seems about the same. Fir sharpened the picture a little, and there's a slight increase in contrast. In my other edit I just fixed the blown out sky and changed the hue and saturation of the leaves to try out Promenader's idea. Wolfmankurd seems to have changed the color of most of the leaves into a more solid green without the highlights. In any case I went ahead and promoted the original as it had at least one more vote than the rest. --Mad Max 20:03, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

I'm not so sure. I think Edit 2 has the consensus. Please see this discussion. --Fir0002 12:32, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Edit 2 as per discussion. --Fir0002 09:06, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Snail-WA edit02.jpg