Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Vanellus armatus - Etosha 2014.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

File:Vanellus armatus - Etosha 2014.jpg, featured[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 20 Jan 2015 at 17:21:48 (UTC)
Visit the nomination page to add or modify image notes.

Vanellus armatus
Cayambe, are you sure that this is CA? I would be surprised if such a professional lens had problems like this. I think it rather looks like shadows that appear very cool because the warm colors of direct sunlight have been used as neutral tone. --DXR (talk) 20:22, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@DXR: you are right, shadows indeed. However, this bird has no light-blue feathers anywhere and therefore, IMO, this picture cannot be FP. --Cayambe (talk) 21:05, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The feathers part of the light blue color in the shadow is true blue. The lens is full OK. Take a look to this image, also with a blue shadow and here shadow color. You have in Namibia an extemly color temperature = colored shadows! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 21:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Alchemist for the explanation. But please, allow me to stick to my opinion, which is that those blue shadows induce us into believing that there are blue feathers in this bird. Let's see what others will say. --Cayambe (talk) 21:53, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No problem :-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:20, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As far as I can remember, the light was very warm and the bird had orange/yellow feathers ;-), so I had to do a bit of color correction to cool it down to more normal colors which in turn gave the white shadow a bluish tinge. I'm currently traveling and away from the originals, but I'll be happy to post the original unprocessed form for comparison when I get back home at the end of the week. Cheers. :-) -- ~y (talk) 05:05, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Does the picture make the viewer believe the rocks are blue also? -- Colin (talk) 22:23, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This is the reality. All people can believe what they want. Now "we" know it better!? ;-) --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:45, 11 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
My point is that Cayambe argues the blue shadows make us think the plumage is blue, yet we do not think the rocks are blue. So perhaps that argument doesn't hold. -- Colin (talk) 07:55, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad when he contribute high resolution pictures instead of heavily downsampled one to hide all drawbacks. Pinged Yathin as he seems available now. :) Jee 02:43, 12 January 2015 (UTC) It seems lights matches with his previous fp. Jee 03:23, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 Support. My thoughts: Yes, the white balance is a little bit too cool if it was taken in late afternoon light. There's no absolutely correct method of selecting the white balance, particularly when there is both sunlight and shadows (or any other source of light), but as a rule of thumb, I usually try to find a neutral WB when the photo was taken around midday, but I leave a bit of warmth when taken in early morning or late evening because I think that's how we see it. Our eyes can partially correct the WB but we still see warm light as warm, so I think it's better to keep some of that warmth. I think this image's WB is perhaps overcorrected in this instance, but the blue shadows don't bother me too much because I'm aware of the effect. I'd still like to see an adjustment to WB though if it can be done from the RAW file. Diliff (talk) 10:08, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 04:27, 21 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds
Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Featured_picture_candidates/File:Vanellus_armatus_-_Etosha_2014.jpg&oldid=147280466"