Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Snowy Plover

Snowy Plover

Original - Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus)

Edit 1 by Fir0002 - downsample, sharpen, convert from Adobe RGB to sRGB

Edit 2 sRGB conversion only

Reason: Another great bird photo from Mike Baird. I've been sifting through his flickr archives, and I think this is one of the best and most useful.
Articles this image appears in: Kentish Plover (this is what the Snowy Plover is called outside the US, where this photo was taken)
Creator: Mike Baird

Support as nominator Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:10, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great shot. Brilliant detail in the feathers, including the white feathers. --liquidGhoul (talk) 04:49, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Original Poor sharpness at 100% - huge res though so I could probably downsample and sharpen to an acceptable level --Fir0002 10:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support Edit 1 - better sharpness and colours (converted from Adobe RGB colour profile) --Fir0002 10:52, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support orig * Oppose Edit, because looks 2 artificial for my taste --Richard Bartz (talk) 13:50, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support either per nom. H92110 (talk) 15:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit de Bivort 17:40, 16 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support original - Oppose Edit- Not everything in the world needs to be downsampled. I agree with Richard, it now doesn't look as natural.pschemp | talk 00:21, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Note that the edit makes its colours appear more natural as it's been converted from Adobe RGB to sRGB. If you upload an image in ARGB to the web without converting, the web browser assigns it an sRGB profile. Since ARGB is a larger colourspace the colours look desaturated. By converting them from ARGB to sRGB the true colours are shown in your web browser. In other words the original is unnatural --Fir0002 01:48, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- This edit is not only converted --Richard Bartz (talk) 15:34, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support both well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• 11:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit. Very well done. Clegs (talk) 19:32, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit Very nice picture. Juliancolton (Talk) 14:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment the caption and image should state that which plumage stage the bird is in. I don't have my Sibley guide with me but I think it is a winter bird (but it may be a juvenile). The breeding bird looks quite different. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:43, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is the closing delay here due to the possible fuss over promoting the edit? Or do we want more input over which edit people support? --jjron (talk) 07:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think I'll go the compromise edit (2) here. Plus I've suffered a recent lack of energy/enthusiasm recently. If there are no objections by the weekend, Edit 2 sticks. MER-C 08:14, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Snowy Plover srgb.jpg MER-C 09:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]