Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pterodroma mollis light morph - SE Tasmania 2019.jpg

Soft-plumaged Petrel
Voting period ends on 15 Jun 2019  at 03:30:57 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality image of small bird in flight at sea from a boat in swell. Photographing pterodromas is never easy - I got one crack at this as it passed the boat.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Soft-plumaged petrel
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
 * Creator:JJ Harrison


 * Support as nominator – JJ Harrison (talk) 03:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support Geoffroi (talk) 05:04, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Over-processed sea. It appears that the sea has been blurred/aggressively noise-reduced. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:25, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. It's just not taken with a crop body and a large aperture. The depth of field is about half of what it is with a 7D, 400 at 5.6 if you do the math. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:51, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I apologise as I do not have experience with your camera set up. But grateful if you send me the out-of-camera image before any processing then I scan stop imagining things! Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:12, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - I don't see the blurred background to be a significant problem. Much of it was likely out of the depth of field at f/4 anyway. MER-C 14:58, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * No. The sea would be in focus. But it's been blurred. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support - I also don't see the background blurred to be a problem, there is no EV for the background. Mattximus (talk) 21:36, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It's not a matter of EV. It's clearly a matter of opinion how much one post-processes an image. With this amount of processing we are not judging a genuine wildlife photo. I'm not happy with that for encyclopaedic value. Charlesjsharp (talk) 22:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I guess what I should have said is that the EV here is for the bird, not the water. The bird is in focus, so that's why I said it has high EV. Mattximus (talk) 22:30, 10 June 2019 (UTC)


 * You're making it very clear you have no experience with full frame cameras and big prime lenses. Much less noise and more subject isolation from the background is normal. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:51, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support. Fine capture. DoF looks normal for this sort of photo. I can see what looks like a little bit of pan-motion blur on the crest of the wave but I don't think it's problematic. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:44, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 10:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Support.-- Vulp here  12:23, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 06:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC)