Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Little Owl WB

Little Owl (Athene noctua lilith) in south Hebron, (WestBank), Palestine.

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 13 Mar 2016 at 22:30:23 (UTC)

Original – Little Owl (Athene noctua lilith) in south Hebron, (WestBank), Palestine.

Alternate – Little Owl (Athene noctua lilith) in south hebron, (west bank) palestine

Reason: High quality image for a Little Owl from a region that not very represented, high EV.
Articles in which this image appears: Little owl, owl
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: محمد الفلسطيني

Support as nominator – Imad_J (talk) 22:30, 3 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Note This is a featured picture on the Arabic language Wikipedia.-Imad_J (talk) 11:03, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Nice capture of a nice little owl. Two notes: Detail at full resolution is a bit fuzzy, and the matching background doesn't provide much contrast. Sca (talk) 16:15, 4 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support No issue with the background - it is the scenery this owl is found in, so helps with EV. Not full support though because per Sca the detail at full res is fuzzy, probably due to this literally being borderline sizewise. gazhiley 08:46, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support that background, but otherwise nice. Cat-five t c ---- 09:07, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ – I like the background. It looks like a good camouflage, EV worthy. The details aren't perfect, but I think are Ok. (probably as good as it gets for the small camera and sensor, just about meets the 1500 pixels given the down sampling.) Bammesk (talk) 17:30, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Support ALT – per comments below, seems like Atsme denoised and the jpg artifacts are gone (eye area). I agree with the file size comments by user Charlesjsharp below. May be denoising the original 4000x3000px image and then down sampling to 2000x1500px can produce a higher quality image. I like the image, but agree that the technical quality could be better. Bammesk (talk) 03:18, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 18:39, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - it could use a little PS tweaking. Atsme^📞📧 19:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to upload a tweak if you think it's worthwhile. (overwrite [1] or alternate) Bammesk (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see what I can do. Atsme^📞📧 22:25, 6 March 2016 (UTC) ^{See if that helps. 23:09, 6 March 2016 (UTC)}[reply]

Oppose Not a very large file and so little definition which is a shame, so not quite FP. No binomial name. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:41, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - the size of the file meets the requirements for FP (minimum of 1500 pixels in width and height) but I also realize larger files are preferred. ~~The binomial name can easily be added by the nom.~~^{Done ✓16:25, 8 March 2016 (UTC)} I agree that it lacks definition but does the EV make-up for it? I'm neither familiar with the region nor do I know how difficult it is to photograph this species. Input? Atsme^📞📧 16:15, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:38, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Neither image has enough support for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:38, 13 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]