Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Humpback stellwagen edit.jpg

Humpback Whale Breaching

Original

Edit 1 - downsize, all-around cleanup

Reason: Though detail is lost due to underexposure on the right side of the whale, the image still serves as a significant example of this incredible behavior.
Proposed caption: A Humpback Whale breaching in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The purpose of breaching is not well-understood. It may be a form of communication, a method of stunning fish prey, or a way to remove parasites from the skin. Humpback Whales throw their immense bodies nearly 90% out of the water during these magnificent stunts.
Articles this image appears in: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Whale Watching
Creator: Whit Welles

Support as nominator Wwelles14 20:15, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You could downsample that by at least 30% without any loss in quality. (Which is my way of saying the sharpness doesn't do justice to the resolution.) 129.215.191.74 21:48, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Maybe it thinks that if it stays out of the water long enough, it'll grow legs. Silly whale, that's not how evolution works :O --⁪froth^t 02:54, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: just a bit too much motion blur, softness and lack of shadow detail. Any one of the three might be ok, but with all three, the image has really suffered. Maybe a talented photoshopper could rescue it? Stevage 03:08, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment My photo shop skill is subpar, but I challenge anyone to see if they can fix this shot adequatly. Wwelles14 03:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
'Support edit 1 although a full size (not downsampled) version without the blurr from the cloned out ship (this edit needs to be mentioned on the image page) would be even better. Comment This image is not currently in any articles, which makes it ineligible to be a featured picture. I do like this image a lot, and I'll probably support it, but it's got to contribute to an article first. I would just add it, but Humpback Whale already has an image of a whale breaching. It's a good, high resolution image which shows a whale farther out of the water, so it convinces the reader more that the whale can get nearly 90% out of the water. However, there is lots of water in the way in the currently used image, so you can see the whale much better in this new nominated image. I think we can find a way to have both images contribute hugely to the encylopedia, but the regular whale editors are probably needed to figure out the best way to use both images. On the technical side, what's the blur on the horizon just to the right of whale? Enuja (talk) 03:13, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This photo does appear in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary page, and is absent from any whale pages for the reason mentioned above. I am working on the shot with photoshop right now, but as I said previously I am fairly new to photoshop, so it is a time-consuming "trial and error" process. The blur on the right side is a boat on the horizon that I attempted (obviously unsuccessfully) to clone out. Though I am obviously biased, because I took the picture, but I feel that this is a valuable image, and welcome anyone to try and fix it. Thanks. Wwelles14 03:20, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support original, Support Edit1 This is a great picture. Of course some motion blur is present, but just imagine you are somewhere at a shaky boat and you've no idea where and when a whale is going to breach. This shot is very hard to get. Trust me, I know. Please look also at the resolution of the image!--Mbz1 04:17, 27 September 2007 (UTC)Mbz1[reply]

Added Edit1

Support Edit1 Wwelles14 15:05, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit1 It's an amazing photograph, and the detail is fine for me, considering the difficulty in getting the shot. Puddyglum 17:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Don't see anything at all badly wrong with it; Edit 1 is better however. IPchanges ^{the box} 23:22, 27 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I wonder if Pacific Life Insurance Company needs a new model for their logo. I couldn't help noticing that this image isn't in the Humpback whale article, but this similar one is. Spikebrennan 17:21, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Humpback stellwagen edit.jpg -- Chris B • talk 14:20, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]