Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Long Legged Fly

Long Legged Fly

Original - A Chrysosoma sp. of the Dolichopodidae family, commonly known as Long Legged Flies. They make up a large family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera distributed worldwide.

Reason

A very difficult picture to take IMO. This fly is very sensitive to flash and just as one takes a picture, the fly flies away, leaving the photographer with a picture of a plain leaf. In order to take this picture, I had to trick the fly. I noticed that whenever I fired the flash in quick succession, it did not fly away on the third attempt. So I manually fired the flash twice, and in less than a second had to manually focus and take the picture. To add to all that, the fly was small, only 4mm long. Compared to other images in the article, IMO this has the most EV as it shows the fly from an encyclopedic angle.

Articles this image appears in

Dolichopodidae

Creator

Muhammad Mahdi Karim

• Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 15:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support I'd like more focus and resolution, but given the difficulties described above, this is acceptable.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 19:30, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
• Comment Resolution is fine but 429kb is a little on the short, could you possibly upload a higher quality version and I will happily support. —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 01:48, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Done Uploaded a less compressed version over the original one. --Muhammad(talk) 03:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
    • Support really nice shot! —Krm500 ^{(Communicate!)} 14:53, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support Agreed, this is a nice shot! Pastor Theo (talk) 23:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
• Support Putting the flash on manual (to avoid the E-TTL preflash) would also probably let you get them. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Long legged fly.jpg --Fir0002 10:59, 24 January 2009 (UTC)