Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Eastern banjo frog white bg.jpg

Eastern banjo frog

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Jan 2011 at 08:50:15 (UTC)

Reason: A rather sterile photo of a rather lifeless frog. Technically great, but aesthetically awful.
Articles this image appears in: Limnodynastes dumerilii
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Eastern banjo frog white bg.jpg
Nominator: Kaldari (talk)

Delist — Kaldari (talk) 08:50, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I see no issues-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 10:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delist, I don't think this would pass today. The white background is rather harsh, the composition is uninspiring and the crop is very tight. The frog's in a rather unnatural pose; it's fairly clear it has just been picked up and placed there. I think the shadow is fake, too. This isn't the worst picture in our galleries, but it has nothing on the likes of File:Dendropsophus microcephalus - calling male (Cope, 1886).jpg. Even the much more comparable File:Brown Tree Frog 2.jpg is stronger- the pose is more natural, the lighting less harsh and the composition and crop more interesting. J Milburn (talk) 12:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Judging by the very unnatural pose of the hind legs, I imagine the frog may have been stuck in the refrigerator for a while before the shot, but who knows. Kaldari (talk) 21:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Maybe he is just shy and clenched.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 19:44, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep From a scientific point of view, an illustration like this is good. Aesthetics are not everything. — raeky t 01:31, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: The background makes fixing the tight crop simple. We can give the critter some more room and upload over the top when this nomination is finished. The background/lighting is a little harsh, but the frog is sharp and the detail is decent. Seems acceptable to me and worth retaining. (p.s. Pretty sure this is the same frog, at the pick-up location.) Maedin\^talk 21:05, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep If you want artistic go to commons, this is high quality, illustrates the subject, and fits the topic of the articles it is placed in well, which at least in my opinion make it a good featured picture. Cat-five - talk 22:21, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delist for unnatural pose, lifelessness, harsh lighting. --Avenue (talk) 13:39, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Per Raeky and Cat-five. I would definitely also support a D&R for a less tight crop. NauticaShad es 17:22, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep good quality. Nergaal (talk) 19:40, 15 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:16, 17 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]