Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Eudyptula minor family exiting burrow.jpg

Little Penguins exiting Burrow

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Original - Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) family exiting burrow, Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia

Reason: Another high EV image. Certainly something that it isn't possible to replicate in a zoo. The image was taken at night with three off-camera flashes. Flash isn't allowed at the observation platform. I had to wait until 11pm one night before everyone left so I could set up to start shooting. Because of the larger audience and educational the use of flash here is ethically justifiable. The penguins are used to torch light anyway and didn't react significantly to the flash either. I also limited the number of exposures to reduce my impact.
Articles in which this image appears: Little Penguin
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Noodle snacks

Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 08:28, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This is just amazing. The timing is great even with the amount of setup it must have taken. No umbrellas though? ;-) --Dschwen 16:29, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- A bit windy methinks, and I'd crush a dozen burrows (mostly owned by Short-tailed Shearwaters) trying to get it set up ;). Noodle snacks (talk) 11:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:01, 7 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom --Muhammad(talk) 05:14, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- stunning picture. One very minor comment: above the head of the middle bird I'm seeing a slight unevenness in the texture of two bits of grass, which is perhaps the result of merging the two exposures. It looks like there's a hard line running from coordinates 1075,177 to 1115,177. Might be worth taking a look at this if you upload an alt version. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 11:11, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Yep, I see it. I will just upload over the top a fix in the next day or two, thanks. Noodle snacks (talk) 22:25, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Done. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support very cute. Technically excellent, too. Purpy Pupple (talk) 22:30, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice --George Chernilevsky ^talk 10:51, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment For those curious, the annotations at commons:File:The Spit Bruny Island Towards Adventure Bay.jpg could be interesting. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support!!! Love it! But in the spirit of NFU, the two left most pieces of vertical grass above the right penguin have a bit of a ghosting effect going on. Possible to fix this? I'd give it 2 supports if you can :) Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:18, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Also some strange texture above the left penguin at the very top of the picture. But just to repeat, love the photo! Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look tomorrow. Noodle snacks (talk) 11:21, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 18:32, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support put please add some sense of scale. Nergaal (talk) 20:21, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- By the exif again, it is 30cm high on the focus plane. I'm not going to go adding scale bars and stuff though - the penguins are not standing up straight, and applying a 2d scale bar to a 3d image is problematic at best. Noodle snacks (talk) 21:09, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support per above and is totally a great picture. fifteen thumbs up! totally Pteronura brasiliensis (talk) 18:33, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice trio. SMasters (talk) 09:05, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, reminds me of the pinguins of Madagascar-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 19:00, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Well done. upstate NYer 03:02, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The flash lighting is too stark, and casts a distracting beak shadow on the third bird. It seems unnecessary for a bird that's active during the day too. The head of the bird on the right seems a bit divorced from its body - is that from the compositing? --Avenue (talk) 04:12, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It wouldn't be, the left hand bird is the one that had it's head from another (consecutive) shot. The adults are active during the day - but out to sea fishing. The juveniles spend the day in the burrow out of sight. Every available day time photo of adults on land is either taken at a zoo or on land. Thus, night time shot is required for wild birds and most encyclopaedic. Noodle snacks (talk) 05:31, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sorry I was wrong about the right hand bird. Here's an exception to your rule about photos of adults (although the quality is nowhere near as good as your shot). --Avenue (talk) 12:27, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Eudyptula minor family exiting burrow.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 08:05, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]