Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Emu portrait.jpg

Emu Portrait edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 25 Jul 2010 at 19:28:19 (UTC)

Original - Portrait of an emu Dromaius novaehollandiae. Taken in Bangalore. Emu eyes are golden brown to black. The naked skin on the neck is bluish-black.

Reason: Good quality, EV. Already featured at commons and has been stable in the articles for quite some time.
Articles in which this image appears: Emu, Casuariidae
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 19:28, 16 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Going to have to oppose here, on EV grounds. A full shot of the bird would be much better EV then a headshot, and as for angles of a headshot, something like is a bit more striking. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 02:30, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good lighting and it’s nice and sharp. The background is (thankfully) out of focus and isn’t competing for attention. The Emu article already has full-body images. This photo is being used to discuss eye color. Ergo, it has EV to illustrate the intended issue. Greg L (talk) 02:58, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Sorry, nice IQ, but I'm not liking the composition. I'm not against animal 'portraits' per se, but for mine, for an emu, this is cut-off too high up; I feel a portrait orientation would have worked a lot better. I'm also not a big fan of these direct side-on photos that give the subject a two-dimensional feel. --jjron (talk) 18:34, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- These and ostriches scare the crap out of me anyway, a picture of one getting ready to peck you in the face ( ) would be more dramatic. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 18:50, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - A picture from that angle wil have large ares out of focus due to DOF limitations as is evident in the example image you showed where the beak is OOF. --Muhammad(talk) 04:53, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Depends on how close to the beast of doom you actually are, if your within striking distance your already dead, but if your smart and using a telephoto lens it should keep the whole head in focus. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 04:57, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
      - Beast of doom - hehe. Emus actually aren't too scary, it's cassowaries you want to be worried about... --jjron (talk) 14:08, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support This strikes me as a quality example of a valuable profile-portrait shot of the animal. I'm not seeing valuable arguments as to how this is not a quality demonstration of the beast. Cowtowner (talk) 06:09, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It has such ugly skin, shown off by very good photo capture quality. Also a bit blurry around the eye, you must have snapped this as it was blinking. I'm not sure though that this is dynamically feature-worthy though, I would expect to see this in Valued Pictures but it seems Commons disagrees with me... How is an image selected for Picture of the day a week in advance? --I′d※<3※Ɵɲɛ (talk) 22:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- It was selected as POTD for commons where it is already a featured picture --Muhammad(talk) 17:05, 22 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 22:16, 25 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]