Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Crested Tern Tasmania.jpg

Crested Tern in Tasmania

Original - Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii), in breeding plumage, displaying in Tasmania, Australia

Edit 1 - Crop (log centered)

Edit 2 - Selective Noise Reduction on the back

Reason

Good quality, interesting pose (a breeding display)

Articles this image appears in

Greater Crested Tern, Thalasseus, Lari

Creator

Noodle snacks

• Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 05:40, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Support either with preference for Crop (Edit 1). Nice capture. Looks slightly underexposed in the thumbnail but better when viewed at 100%. I would have liked to see slightly more space behind the bird and slightly less in front - it just has a bit of an imbalanced composition IMO, even though the body of the bird is centred. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 06:55, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support. Sharp and excellent use of depth of field. Good ev. Durova^Charge! 09:18, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support Photographically good image, nice bokeh. --Janke | Talk 15:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
• Neutral I'd support this, but the dark sharpening artifact on the bird's breast/beak really is distracting. Do you think you could mask an unsharpened version (or one with sharpening blended for lightening only) in that area? Thegreenj 22:48, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Yeah, I have a PSD with a masked sharpened layer so i should be able to fix it when I get home without any quality loss etc. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:55, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
  • I have fixed that, I uploaded straight over the top since only about 100 pixels are different and the difference is barely perceptable anyway. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:42, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
    • Weak support Better now, though the breast still has sharpening artifacts, and there's a bit of noise. Still, very nice. Thegreenj 19:53, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support; good picture with excellent use of depth of field. Composition would probably be made perfect by cropping just a bit of the left side so that the log is centered; quick experimentation show that balancing the bird surface pushes the log too far to the left. — Coren ^(talk) 01:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Added a cropped version so the log is centered Noodle snacks (talk) 03:01, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support Nice colours and bokeh but there is quite a lot of noise in the wing area. --Abdominator (talk) 04:04, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Yeah, he's right, that is quite a lot for ISO 400. Did you underexpose and then brighten the shadow detail on the wing? I can understand why if you did, as its hard to shoot a subject like this and avoid the white feathers facing direct sun becoming grossly overexposed. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 06:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
    • Had to to a certain degree in order to preserve the highlights, I used fill flash with a frensel lens type flash extender to fill in the shadows, but I was at the edge of the effective range for that setup. A version with selective noise reduction is now attached. Noodle snacks (talk) 13:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support original, oppose edits 1 and 2 Nicer composition in original than edit 1. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:26, 19 September 2008 (UTC) Not convinced of the noise reduction in edit 2. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose - Very nice composition and colours but unsufficient quality for FP due to noise -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support any.--Avala (talk) 17:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support original Though a good bokeh and composition, the subject itself is quite noisy. Spencer^T♦C 12:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
• Weak support any, with slight preference for edit 2. The noise is a little better, though still a bit of a problem.--ragesoss (talk) 20:05, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
• Support any. --Base64 (talk) 13:56, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Crested Tern Tasmania.jpg MER-C 06:47, 26 September 2008 (UTC)