Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Blue-throated barbet
Voting period ends on 4 Nov 2024 at 08:59:34 (UTC)
- Reason
- Infobox image of Blue-throated barbet. Recent FP on Commons, unanimously promoted in 5 days.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Blue-throated barbet; Megalaimidae
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
- Creator
- Tagooty
- Support as nominator – Tagooty (talk) 08:59, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: @Tagooty: too much sky at the top perhaps? Nythar (💬-🍀) 19:29, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
- The headroom is aesthically pleasing to me. This FPC which is likely to get promoted has much more empty space. Tagooty (talk) 03:02, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- True, but the Eurasian chaffinch photo is almost square shaped, so the empty space at the top is less noticeable. That bird's tail is also higher up compared with the Blue-throated barbet. This bird on the other hand and the branch it's on appear oddly low in the image, an issue that becomes evident if you view the image on fullscreen (compounded by the fact that the image is vertical). The tail to head distance and the position of the bird just seem a bit off. Reducing the top by about 1/4 or 1/3 could solve this issue in my opinion. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 04:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
Done Fair enough. I've cropped it for more uniform space on all sides. Uploaded with a "crop" filename as the original is QI and FP on Commons. --Tagooty (talk) 09:14, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think it could go slightly further. Using Photoshop's rulers, I'm seeing that the head has 175px more space than the tail. The left-right margins are also unabalanced, but in that case there are branches and whatnot that allow the eye to follow. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:13, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Having the head a little closer to the middle of the image than the tail is justified for 2 reasons: From the aesthetic PoV, an unbalanced layout is more appealing than geometric balance. From the EV PoV, the most interesting part of the bird is the multi-coloured head, neck and bill (see Description). Tagooty (talk) 03:32, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Tagooty. There don't seem to be any other issues to me, so I'll Support. Nythar (💬-🍀) 15:44, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
- I think it could go slightly further. Using Photoshop's rulers, I'm seeing that the head has 175px more space than the tail. The left-right margins are also unabalanced, but in that case there are branches and whatnot that allow the eye to follow. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 15:13, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- True, but the Eurasian chaffinch photo is almost square shaped, so the empty space at the top is less noticeable. That bird's tail is also higher up compared with the Blue-throated barbet. This bird on the other hand and the branch it's on appear oddly low in the image, an issue that becomes evident if you view the image on fullscreen (compounded by the fact that the image is vertical). The tail to head distance and the position of the bird just seem a bit off. Reducing the top by about 1/4 or 1/3 could solve this issue in my opinion. Regards, Nythar (💬-🍀) 04:16, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- The headroom is aesthically pleasing to me. This FPC which is likely to get promoted has much more empty space. Tagooty (talk) 03:02, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support –Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 12:22, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 09:14, 27 October 2024 (UTC)
