Calliphora hilli

Reason

The surface is my boot. It landed there whilst I was photographing a headless moth.

Articles this image appears in

Calliphora

Creator

Noodle snacks

• Support as nominator -- Noodle snacks ( talk) 06:00, 26 June 2009 (UTC) reply
• Question How big was the fly? Why is the image res small compared to your other images. -- Muhammad (talk) 10:55, 26 June 2009 (UTC) reply
  • It was cropped a bit. I seem to have misplaced the raw, so this may be as big as it gets. It is 16 pixels narrower than all of fir's images, and 9 pixels shorter, just to put it in perspective. Noodle snacks ( talk) 12:32, 26 June 2009 (UTC) reply
    • Support I was just wondering why the resolution was small since these flies tend to be around 1-2cm. I moved the image to the taxobox -- Muhammad (talk) 19:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC) reply
• Question Why is the WB so warm? Sunset or filter? Seems warmer than the headless moth shot... -- Fir0002 00:41, 28 June 2009 (UTC) reply
  • The moth was in the shade. This was in the fairly low sun. Noodle snacks ( talk) 04:40, 28 June 2009 (UTC) reply
• Weak Support Edit 1 Assuming WB was naturally caused by low sunlight then it's a decent picture. However I'm not that keen on the boot foreground and the DOF/sharpness seems somehow lacking. From an empirical guess at the focus plane and the DOF at f/11 it does seem that the mouthparts should have been in focus...? -- Fir0002 23:56, 28 June 2009 (UTC) reply
• Where do you have such low sunlight at 14.33 ? Richard Bartz ( talk) 22:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC) reply

  I think the most plausible explanation is that the time was set wrong on the camera. MER-C 11:51, 30 June 2009 (UTC) reply

  Even still, anyone can post an edit. Noodle snacks ( talk) 11:56, 30 June 2009 (UTC) reply

• Weak support (of either one) per Fir0002. The boot forground detracts modestly from a very attractive shot.-- ragesoss ( talk) 19:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Not promoted No quorum. -- wadester 16 04:00, 4 July 2009 (UTC) reply