Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Elephant seal colony edit.jpg

Original - Northern elephant seal colony (Mirounga angustirostris) on a beach near San Simeon, California, USA.

Edit 1 - sharpen, downsample

Support as nominator Muhammad Mahdi Karim (talk) 17:14, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. A fine image. It's only in a gallery in Elephant seal and probably deserves to be moved into the article. Spikebrennan (talk) 18:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Okay. Could be sharper, but focus set accurate. Enough. Encyclopedic value given. —αἰτίας •discussion• 20:35, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Image quality is a bit lacking when you view the full image. Inklein (talk) 23:54, 20 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Looks like excessive noise reduction has reduced the sharpness. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 09:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support original, support edit but I would full support an edited version with sharpness. H92110 (talk) 15:12, 21 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I uploaded a sharpened edit. CillaИ ♦ XC 03:28, 23 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit1 Great use of colours, contrast, nice composition etc. Chris.B (talk) 10:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both The edit is problematic because at 100%, the lines just look weird. By lines, I mean areas that, if drawn with a pencil, would be lines (such as the edge of the body of each seal, or the details around the face). In fact, everything seems to have a strange quality of it that looks like its been through one of the photoshop artistic filters. This can especially be seen on the body/fur, which appears "soft". These qualities seem to be inherited from the original. I suspect noise reduction is the culprit.-Andrew c ^[talk] 15:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Original - the edit seems over done to me --Abdominator (talk) 23:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Elephant seal colony edit.jpg MER-C 02:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]