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Original – Two common toads during amplexus, a form of pseudocopulation in which a male amphibian grasps a female with his front legs as part of the mating process. From head to abdomen the female in the picture is about 95 mm long – the male only 65 mm.
Reason
High resolution and quality, interesting topic (frogs mating)
Articles in which this image appears
amplexus, common toad
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Amphibians
Creator
Bernie Kohl
  • From my point of view it is an absolute no-no to sharpen out of focus areas. A photograph is not a 3d-rendering and always has narrow depth of field. It would be technically feasible to recover all the blurred detail through deconvolution sharpening, but as soon as you run a standard sharpening filter over the image you end up destroying the photographer's initial work. When I created the image I carefully masked out the pixels within the field of focus and sharpened them using a high-pass filter. Now if you want more sharpness I can increase the strength of the filter, but please don't destroy the photograph just because some people are too technically minded. --Bernie Kohl (talk) 17:17, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Amplexus Bufo bufo 2010-03-29.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 10:21, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]