Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/California sea lion

California sea lion skeleton
Voting period ends on 1 Jun 2012 at 17:30:40 (UTC)
 * Reason:Well executed, high EV
 * Articles in which this image appears:California sea lion
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
 * Creator:H. Zell


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 17:30, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Support good EV for the article, adequate technical quality. Pine(talk) 18:55, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm not convinced on EV. The image is located in the California_sea_lion section of the article, but there is nothing there or in the image caption there that mentions something significant about the skeleton or some factor that is a direct result of the skeletal structure. Personally, I think a regular photo of the sea lion would have much stronger EV, especially in that section of the article.  Spencer T♦ C 03:32, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess I don't understand. How would a photo of a skeleton of an animal have low EV? A photo of the skeleton of any creature would have good EV for the article about the creature, wouldn't it? Pine✉ 06:27, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've edited the section title to make it describe the contents better. I think the problem was more with the section title than with the image. Pine✉ 06:30, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * At least for me, unless the organism is a fossil, a photograph of the full, complete animal would have much more ev than just a picture of its skeleton, because that shows outer colors and characteristics, whereas the skeleton just shows body structure (which a photograph of the full animal shows as well). If the skeleton doesn't have something distinctive about it (unique vestigial structure, etc.), then an image of the skeleton has lower ev than an outer photograph, if such a photograph is possible.  Spencer T♦ C 16:48, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Lacks sharpness - I suspect a slight motion blur of the camera rather than DOF problems as I can't find anywhere that's really sharply focussed, and it is shot at F8 so there should be a fair range decently focussed; I guess it could just be a low quality lens, or even post-processing issues, but the cause is really neither here nor there. On EV grounds, there's something odd with the ribcage - appears that the ribs have been cut off, no sign of a sternum that I can make out, etc. I'm also not sure that having the limbs overlaying each other gives the best view of the bone structure, and not that it's particularly pertinent, but I am not really clear on how this was laid out/mounted for the picture. --jjron (talk) 13:58, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose per jjron, Front or back focused is another alternative. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:25, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 21:38, 1 June 2012 (UTC)