Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fighting Brown Bears.JPG

Fighting Brown Bears

Two frolicking brown bears.

In all my months of using this site, I have not seen a picture that does a better job of capturing the moment of action, and I think it certainly meets and exceeds all the criteria in Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?.

Nominate and support. - Marvin 05:41, 28 September 2006
Oppose I realize that the blurriness reflects the motion of the animals, but the background is blurry too, e.g. the rocks, so the blur due to motion is harder distinguish. If the background were razor sharp, I might vote for an FPC that had a blurry primary subject. Debivort 01:22, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Debivort. In addition to the focus and blur issues, the color is not that dynamic or striking, and I have a feeling that the white balance may be off (things that may be correctable after editing).--Andrew c 01:41, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Debivort. This was shot at 1/40 second according to the metadata, and had to be zoomed in quite a bit as I don't believe the photographer would get too close to two fighting bears. A significant amount of blur can be attributed to motion of the camera during exposure. The image is also very noisy, probably due to underexposure, high ISO, or both. That would also explain the lack of vibrant color. This is an interesting image, but it doesn't have the technical quality necessary to be a featured picture, IMO. -- Moondigger 02:30, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Mostly because of the heavy blur. --Tewy 04:37, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Per Debivort. NauticaShades^(talk) 07:42, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Far too blurry even considering the subject matter. --Nebular110 20:55, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Is this a joke? Sorry to sound rude but putting a pic of this quality up for FPC is just ridiculous - Adrian Pingstone 19:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Good subject but bad quality. sikander 18:52, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Interesting subject but far too blurry. RFerreira 06:03, 3 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I was actually pretty close to the bears but I hardly knew how to use my camera so it turned out the way it did :) Thanks for nominating it though. Mackan 09:18, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted. --KFP (talk | contribs) 06:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]