Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Clark's Nutcracker

Clark's Nutcracker edit

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Original – Clark's Nutcracker in Crater Lake National Park

Reason: High EV and high quality
Articles in which this image appears: Clark's Nutcracker
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Yathin sk

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 10:57, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It is a nice photo. Crop on the RHS a bit tight. But looking at other photographs, it seems too brown and not "ashy-grey" per the article and other photographs linked to by the article. I'm no bird expert, though. Colin°^Talk 23:02, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Since the sky background is quite uniform, it would be easy to manipulate the photo to add some space on the right... but I wonder if that would go against the guidelines for image editing. The bird does look too yellow in comparison with other photos in the article too. Purpy Pupple (talk) 03:50, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- I've uploaded a new version with better white balance and added more space to the left. -- ~y (talk) 08:25, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I really don't like the colour of the sky now. Looks like the bird is in a cheap photo studio. And perhaps too much sky on the right now making the subject centred and almost like he might fall back into the void. Colin°^Talk 13:36, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose This is very well done in that the chest is sharp enough as to clearly show the difference between the brownish bird and the brownish ground but the sharp right hand cut and the very narrow depth of field ruins it for me. I'm sympathetic to the difficulty of capturing wildlife but the tail and the left talon are very blurry. Cat-five t c ---- 06:47, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree the out of focus right leg and tail of the bird is distracting. In those days I would not go beyond ISO 400 for the fear of noise and with the given light the best option was to get a sharp head/beak for a portrait. I've uploaded a new version with more space to the right though. -- ~y (talk) 08:25, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weak oppose lack of sharpness, and the background color looks like a movie bluescreen. --Pine^✉ 18:35, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:57, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]