Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Female superb fairy wren.jpg

Female Superb Fairy Wren

Original - Female Superb Fairy Wren in mid call

Edit 1 - cropped by jjron to remove dead space and distracting blurred out greenery; dimensions also better match its male partner image in the Superb Fairy-wren infobox

Reason: High quality image of a common but surprisingly difficult to approach bird. Technicals are good and the moment captured IMO is perfect - mouth fully open in mid call. The background of a brown blackberry bush illustrates a typical habitat for this bird and also shows off its camouflage. Compares well with the existing Superb Fairy Wren FP.
Articles this image appears in: Superb Fairy Wren
Creator: Fir0002

Support as nominator --Fir0002 05:34, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You should tweak the levels a bit. Then you will get rid of that grey vail over your picture. Pull up the picture in photoshop and move the arrow on the right to the edge of the histogram. Beautiful picture. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 11:18, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Hehe I guess comments like that are good to make sure I don't become arrogant :) I'm actually very well versed in Photoshop and post processing and I'm quite pleased with this shot. I've deliberately held back on increasing contrast/levels in the photo in the interests of colour accuracy. If you read from the article "females and juveniles are predominantly grey-brown in colour" - I felt if I adjusted the levels any more the underside would be approaching a white colour. So yeah personally I'm pretty happy with this shot - but if more people want the edit I can easily do that too --Fir0002 12:05, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good action picture. As the photographer, you know the true colours the best. If it was this, no probs with me. Muhammad(talk) 12:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Colour looks accurate to me (and I've seen this species plenty of times in person). I think jjron is right about the crop Noodle snacks (talk) 03:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support well done. — Aitias // discussion 21:09, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Even though my comment above I support this beautiful picture. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 00:56, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I know you tend to like to crop to 1,600 × 1,067 pixels, but I'd suggest removing the blurry green leaves at right as they contain no detail and are a bit distracting. I'd probably suggest to basically crop to square, which would still meet size guidelines, lose no detail, and IMO look better. Might put up an edit later for comparison. --jjron (talk) 07:42, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 as per comments above and in image caption. --jjron (talk) 10:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support crop, brilliant picture. J Milburn (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, neutral crop The original is excellent, except for the greenery. The crop, however, feels too claustrophobic to me. Thegreenj 03:26, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support crop The superb fairy wren is not so intimidating, I don't mind it up close and personal! Fletcher (talk) 12:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit1 Better than the existing FP. Narayanese (talk) 09:52, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Female superb fairy wren-edit1.jpg --Noodle snacks (talk) 06:56, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]