Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common Grackle

Common Grackle

 * Reason:High res, good amount of EV, and for high detail. Another beautiful bird with that black plumage which has the nice gleam to it.
 * Articles this image appears in:Common Grackle, List of birds of Ontario
 * Creator:Mdf


 * Support as nominator --&mdash; Ceran (Sing)  00:22, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose There is a fair amount of noise in the belly, and the tail is somewhat out of focus. I'm also having issues with the background, and would prefer a larger picture.  Spencer T♦C 01:33, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Spencer, this issue you have with noise has got to stop here. There is almost no noise to speak of in this image. All images have some 'noise', though. Its a fact of photography with current technology. Sometimes it is simply the texture of the object, too. This image is well within the bounds of realistic noise levels. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 06:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, what magnification are you using to look for this noise? There is nothing visible at 100% and that's as far as you should be going to judge it. Mfield (talk) 10:03, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm viewing it 100%. Now looking at it closer, I suppose some of that is texture. Sorry,  Spencer T♦C 01:39, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Unfortunate background, crop too tight (as usual, with mdf photos) -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 08:14, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * weak support I think the crop is okay. The detail is a wee bit soft and the BG is less than ideal, but acceptable. Matt Deres (talk) 16:51, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 05:55, 30 October 2008 (UTC)