Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Trumpeter Swan

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Sep 2010 at 01:04:48 (UTC)

Original - The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator, at the Calgary zoo.

Reason: I may be pushing my luck with yet another white bird image, but here goes. The good: high resolution, pose shows all of the bird-and it is not quite the "classic sideways orientation", background not overly distracting (imo). Possible downsides: It was cloudy, but this makes it possible to see highlights in the birds feathers. Too dark? I'll let you decide.
Articles in which this image appears: Trumpeter Swan, List of birds of Canada and the United States, List of birds of Oklahoma
FP category for this image: Birds
Creator: Sasata

Support as nominator --Sasata (talk) 01:04, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose sorry - maybe it's the lighting but the fine details of the picture aren't there... The feet seem blurred and the feathers are very soft and feature-less... Shame though, as it's a good pose EV-wise gazhiley.co.uk 08:54, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support - this picture might stand a very little blurring of the background, to make the bird pop out more, and/or raising the exposure a bit. It's otherwise a fine, clear image. Tim Pierce (talk) 21:07, 17 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Has there been editing/masking around the bird's head? It would appear so—curious as to what editing was needed. Oppose for that alone, but while I'm here: the composition is quite bland, with background too in focus, overexposure on the swan's back, and an odd lack of detail in the feathers on the head. Maedin\^talk 18:22, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, no head editing. Thanks for the comments. Sasata (talk) 18:44, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, okay. Do you see what I'm referring to, though? Maedin\^talk 18:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:26, 26 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]