Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sperm whale pod.jpg

Sperm whale pod
Voting period ends on 27 Jan 2013 at 15:39:34 (UTC)
 * Reason:This is a photograph of a pod of sperm whales. The original photo (available here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/barathieu/7991520863/) was cropped and filtered to bring out the whale's natural grey color
 * Articles in which this image appears:sperm whale
 * FP category for this image:Physeter macrocephalus
 * Creator:Gabriel Barathieu


 * Support as nominator --Kurzon (talk) 15:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose - Excellent EV, though it's quite grainy. YuMaNuMa Contrib 03:31, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose I was ready to say EV trumps quality on this but wow that's grainy and near the top where the turbulence is looks like it's been run through a soft brush filter in Photoshop. Cat-five  t  c   16:36, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support The value of this photo much outweighs the drawbacks in my opinion. The grain is not all that bad. Great find! Jujutacular (talk) 13:17, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support --Amadscientist (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Support I agree with Jujutacular - there are severe extenuating circumstances for the quality defects. --99of9 (talk) 12:20, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sadly, as would be a very good image, and still is at thumb, but have to agree with Cat-five that there's something seriously strange going on. Not just a noise issue, this looks like it's been through some sort of filter, may have even been a low intensity film-grain filter. Whatever it is, it doesn't look right. --jjron (talk) 15:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 15:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)