Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Elseyornis melanops - Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant.jpg

Black-fronted Dotterel

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Feb 2012 at 23:07:02 (UTC)

Reason: High quality, clear view of plumage, good background separation.
Articles in which this image appears: Black-fronted Dotterel
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 23:07, 7 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Something odd happened with the legs - they aren't entirely visible. Brandmeister t 05:23, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- They have sunk into the mud - you can see quite a lot of mud on the legs if you look at them carefully. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:09, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Very nice. Laura will be (probably pretend) peeved that you still got bird FPs in Canberra but haven't had a basketball player nomination, LOL Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:57, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Priorities, priorities :) JJ Harrison (talk) 00:58, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Indeed. Shame my pix all disappeared though (AKA laptop is fixed, but data is gone... s***) Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:48, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - That sucks, I usually protect a few of the best images and leave them on my card until I get home. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:50, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good shot. Clegs (talk) 11:31, 9 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I can't decide which one I prefer, but I'm inclined towards File:Elseyornis melanops - Wonga.jpg, which has better contrast, shows more of the habitat and both legs are clean, although the angle from behind is not as good. --ELEKHH^T 21:21, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- From that image, one can't see the feature whence the species gets it's name. Frankly, for most people looking at the article, a more complete view of the legs isn't at all important for identification. A complete view of the plumage has more encyclopaedic value. JJ Harrison (talk) 22:51, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support upon further consideration, given the significance given to front plumage. --ELEKHH^T 23:17, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Muhammad(talk) 10:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support wonderful colors. I think there might be a slight OOF issue here which is why I'm not voting full support. Pine^talk 05:58, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Out of office issues? ;)126.109.231.71 (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Question I'm a bit intrigued, how do you get such beautiful DOF at an aperture of f/6.3? More relevant to the nomination, I think the photo should be cropped a bit - if you look at how it's used in the Black-fronted Dotterel article, the space surrounding it looks a bit too much.126.109.231.71 (talk) 01:56, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's a 700mm lens. --99of9 (talk) 02:59, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Firstly, the shot was taken lying prone, so the background is about 100 meters behind the bird. This will result in a really blurred background with any telephoto lens and practical aperture. Second is per 99of9, though it is a 500mm lens with a teleconverter rather than a 700mm lens. The entrance pupil at 700mm f6.3 is about 111mm. Compare with say 50mm at f1.2, which gives a 42mm entrance pupil. The result is a fairly shallow depth of field. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:57, 16 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Elseyornis melanops - Fyshwick Sewage Treatment Plant.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:49, 17 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]