Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Little Pied Cormorant - melbourne zoo.jpg

Little Pied Cormorant
A tranquil image of Little Pied Cormorant, which despite being taken in a zoo looks (at least to me) very natural. Good image quality, good enc value.


 * Support Self Nom --Fir0002 03:08, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Support what can I say, another great image by Fir. ~ Arjun  03:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Technically detailed and encyclopedic.  S h a r k f a c e  2 1 7  03:50, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - That's some sexeh bokeh, but the neck feathers are unattractively blown - did you boost the contrast or is it just a little overexposed in the camera? Lovely image otherwise. --YFB ¿  05:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah unfortunately the contrast of the scene was too high - they're blown on the original --Fir0002 08:56, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

--Iriseyes 22:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Wow. Jor co ga  Hi! 07:36, Monday, January 29 2007
 * Support. Very good shot, as always :). - Darwinek 12:30, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I go against the crowd here. The blown neck spoils it for me, and the background is a bit messy with all those splotches of light. Try again on an overcast day? --Janke | Talk 16:35, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. So sharp, I love it.--enano (Talk) 18:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Have to agree with Janke on this one. Anything with both black and white details is always going to be tough to capture, but it seems 1/3-2/3 stops overexposed. I can see that parts of the black details could be lost as a consequence though, so it is probably a no-win situation. Perhaps raw may have proven handy.. ;-) Nice job, but just not quite there for me. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 23:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Quite nice.  -Midnight Rider 02:08, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose agree with Diliff and Janke. On top of that, and I've mentioned this with another image (I believe it was the giraffe) I just do not like the bokeh quality of that lens for certain long shots. All the little circles are distracting. But that is a subjective thing because you received a compliment on the bokeh above.-Andrew c 21:36, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose per the others. The background is too distracting for me, especially because the Cormorant is black and white.
 * Weak support per others above. --KFP (talk | contribs) 21:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Support The water droplets on the feathers do it for me.  Enuja 09:28, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose It's okay, but nothing FP worthy. --Indolences 01:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 01:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)