Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Northern Mockingbird

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 30 Jul 2014 at 07:16:18 (UTC)

Original – An adult Northern mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) in New Hampshire

Reason: Much larger image than the one it just replaced as the lede image for the Northern mockingbird article. Because of the increase in quality I feel that waiting 7 days is unnecessary. The file is already in use on the English, French, Spanish, and other language Wikipedias.
Articles in which this image appears: Northern mockingbird, List of U.S. state birds, Hidalgo (state), Michoacán
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator: Captain-tucker

Support as nominator – Pine^✉ 07:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Coat of Many Colours (talk) 09:33, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose. It's very noisy at 100%. And slightly overexposed too if I'm picky. It doesn't really compare to the best of our bird photography. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:32, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support – We don't often see a photo of a bird at right angles to the side -- a kind of silhouette pose. Also, I like the reflection of the green leaves on the underside of the bird. CorinneSD (talk) 21:23, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Ðiliff. Also, IMO, there are some jpeg artefacts visible in the background and the tail of the bird. Sorry. Nikhil (talk) 04:16, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Ðiliff and Nikhil, please feel free to check the image again (I've uploaded an edit; exposure lowered by 0.2, some contrast and clearness adjustments; noise reduction). Sadly I wasn't able to remove all of the JPG artefacts. You may need to purge your cache. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:30, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

That's a pretty classy edit which gets my seal of approval. Much improved. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 14:11, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Crisco 1492, great job with the edit there. But still, IMHO, from what I have learnt through my time at FPC, leaves look overexposed causing distraction from the main subject. The quality of the image is still not as per the FP standards for bird pics. I would like to know what Ðiliff thinks about it. Nikhil (talk) 15:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There's no way to entirely fix the exposure (there's just no detail on some of those leaves), sadly, but dropping the highlights by 10 or 15% might minimize the glare while avoiding most of the icky grey that comes from reducing highlights too much. Of course, I'll wait for Diliff to weigh in before toying with this. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:00, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Off topic I know, but any twitchers here able to identify this for me? I want it to be something fantastically rare of course. Taken a few weeks ago somewhere in the EU quite a lot to the left of anywhere on the map. Snapped without fill-in flash, so that eye-colour is natural. It's the eye colour that defeats me. Location was an old train embankment in a woody area. Thanks. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 22:01, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:04, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]