Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/PerculaClownfish

Clownfish in an aqaurium setting.

The fish is very clear and sharp and the background does not compete; the picture is in Clownfish, and was created by User: Arpingstone.

Nominate and support. - Dark jedi requiem 04:18, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Oppose. Great photo, but it's too small. --Pharaoh Hound 12:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Oppose. At full resolution, purple fringing is prominent and distracting. Grossly oversharpened -- so much so that it looks like the fish was pasted into an aquarium background. Doesn't meet resolution requirements. -- moondigger 18:48, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
Oppose (and I took the picture!). Only 750 pixels wide and not my best work (it's not pasted in) - Adrian Pingstone 19:31, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

I didn't say it was pasted in, only that the oversharpening (and characteristic halo) make it look like it was pasted in. In any case, it's hard to take pictures of fish inside aquariums. The best approach, if we're talking about a home aquarium, is to use a lens with a flat-front lens shade that can be rested against the aquarium glass, and a flash on an off-shoe cord held over the top of the water pointing down into the tank, combining apertures in the f/8 - f/11 range with zone focusing techniques. For commercial aquariums, it's even more difficult, since you have little control over lighting and camera-mounted flash doesn't work well. About the best you can do in those situations is to shoot without flash at high ISO and hope the interior of the tank is lit much better than the outside area you're standing in to minimize reflections. -- moondigger 02:34, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Your hints on aquarium photography are appreciated. Thanks - Adrian Pingstone 07:01, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted Froggydarb 05:11, 4 July 2006 (UTC)