Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Lalage tricolor male 2 - Glen Davis.jpg

White-winged Triller

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Nov 2019 at 17:32:38 (UTC)

Original – White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) male, Glen Davis, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia

Original – White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor) female, Glen Davis, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia

Reason: Set adds enormously to the EV of the article.
Articles in which this image appears: White-winged triller
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: JJ Harrison

Support as nominator – JJ Harrison (talk) 17:32, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Curious: How do you achieve these neutral backgrounds, so alike in all the photos? --Janke | Talk 18:37, 20 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Generally speaking by having the background distant from the subject. Here background for these is very dry grass on a gentle slope behind the branch. The photos are taken from a hide in an area experiencing drought near a water source, namely a bird bath at some accommodation which I found out about and booked in the area. I sat in a hide for most of the few days there but the camera didn't move very much, hence the similarity of the backgrounds. Unfortunately much of the bush around the property has since been burned in the Gospers Mountain bushfire so I'm afraid that this approach in this location won't exactly be a repeatable activity. JJ Harrison (talk) 19:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi 01:15, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Half of the current nominations are birds. – Sca (talk) 14:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 17:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose – inappropriate (excessive) digital manipulation. FP criteria 8 says limited, well-done corrections. Here, the background is transformed, not corrected. It looks artificial or fake. Bammesk (talk) 01:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your input Bammesk. Simply unfounded and not the case. RAW here. JJ Harrison (talk) 19:28, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  - I struck that portion of my comments. The backgrounds still look odd or artificial, as if they were manipulated in post process (rather than real life). The images have EV, so I understand the support votes, but I still lean to oppose based on the aesthetics of the images. Bammesk (talk) 16:34, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. It's a shame that the positioning is a little different, but I'd support either individually, so I'm happy to support as a pair. Josh Milburn (talk) 18:22, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:20, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]