Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Eastern long necked tortoise

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[edit] Eastern long necked tortoise

chelodina longicollis
chelodina longicollis

Nice photo and adds signifcantly to the article.

  • Support. Self Nom. --Fir0002 09:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment - Well-exposed, and I love the turtle's face (he's smiling!), but the head-on view and lack of focus make it hard to see anything else, especially his neck! I'll have to think about this.PiccoloNamek 09:54, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment I love the photo, it is very striking, but the lack of focus makes it kind of un-encyclopaedic. Off the topic, I have taken tonnes of these off the road this year. --liquidGhoul 10:04, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment I have alternatives], but none as pretty as this one. The tortoise was in a tank (ruled out using a flash), and the lighting was pretty ordinary so a large aperture was needed. I'm glad Piccolo noticed the little smile, as that was one of the reasons I liked this photo. --Fir0002 11:41, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment. I like the blurry background, especially the big green bit - a space-age tortoise almost! But I don't know how much use the photo is here when the rest of the tortoise apart from the head is out of focus. Enochlau 15:38, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment As far as illustrating what an Eastern long neck tortoise looks like, I think this photo does a better job. However, in that one, the tortoise's head is slightly out of focus. I don't like this picture so much because you cannot really get an idea of what the tortoise looks like, and because only the tortoise's head is in focus. It is also pretty dark. ••MDD4696 ( talk - contribs ) 16:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Neutral. Very nice photo for photography's sake but not really illustrative enough for me as only the face is in focus. Agree with MDD4696 that the other image is better, but I think that none of the photos really stand out on their own as FPC material. Unfortunately I know its difficult when working with dim lighting and small depth of field but what matters is the final product I guess. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:19, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose per my comments above. ~MDD4696 (talk • contribs) 03:38, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Neutral - I like the shot (especially the trace of a smile), but it's a bit too blurry. Flcelloguy (A note?) 21:38, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Neutral. I like it, but as mentioned above, the subject is not entirely in focus. Enochlau 01:08, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
    • Support. Apart from the fact that it's odd for me to support half a fish, yet not support half a tortoise, I had a look at the statement of what a featured picture is again, and I think that it could work well to attract readers to the subject. It is, after all, a very tantalising photo (it's my wallpaper on my work computer!). It contains enough tortoise I think. Enochlau 22:36, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I like it, but it doesn't illustrate the subject very well. This photo could use an increase in depth of field, but alas, that's not something that can be fixed now. -Vontafeijos 02:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Not promoted Raven4x4x 04:51, 18 December 2005 (UTC)