Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Swallow chicks

Swallow chicks

Original - Pair of welcome swallow chicks, Hirundo neoxena, the day after fledging

Edit 1 slight desaturation to bring colors closer to reality

Reason: Shows the birds well, clear, good quality image.
Articles this image appears in: Hirundo and Welcome Swallow
Creator: Benjamint

Support as nominator Benjamint 09:54, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: The birds' tails seem to be fairly blurry when viewed at full size. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 10:27, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support. It's an excellent composition, and I can forgive the blurry tail since the patterning is still clearly visible. Samsara noadmin (talk) 14:13, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom and Samsara. Clegs (talk) 15:06, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The image looks oversaturated. The other images at Welcome Swallow look more like natural colors. Maybe tone it down a bit? — BRIAN0918 • 2008-02-04 16:28Z
Comment - Colors look off to me as well. Kaldari (talk) 23:41, 4 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've uploaded a slightly desaturated version to bring the colors closer to reality. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-02-05 01:00Z
Support the adjusted one The one you have adjusted to fix the coloring is very good. Juliancolton ^{(The Giants Win!)} 21:33, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-02-06 20:24Z
Oppose both Colours still look unnaturally saturated. Lycaon (talk) 20:36, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Can you submit an alternative? The 2nd one is much closer to reality. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-02-06 21:00Z
  - It doesn't work that way. You can't boost and then lower stauration in the same way that you can't boost and lower contrast. The original picture (whether or not the submitted original is it) has a full range of saturations. When saturation is boosted, the middle range is stretched out, but areas with an already high saturation won't go higher. When you take this image and lower the saturation again, the areas with a high saturation will be at a much lower saturation than they originally were. Quick example—note the decrease in saturation on the bumper from the first image to the third. thegreen J Are you green? 22:07, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Lycaon. thegreen J Are you green? 02:17, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 – The edit appears to have corrected the problem I had with the strong (probably unrealistic) blue colour appearing at the edge of the birds. Apart from that I cannot really fault the composition or the other technical aspects of this picture. Centy – reply• contribs – 21:41, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Swallow_chicks444-2.jpg MER-C 11:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]