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My proposed crop --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Accipitriformes
•  Info created by C-M - uploaded by C-M - nominated by C-M. Picture of a white tailed eagle grabbing a fish at Raftsundet/Lofoten. I believe that my picture is slightly sharper than the existing picture and has a higher value for Wikipedia as it shows the typical hunting method by grabbing a fish from the water surface. Note that the articles in the german and english wikipedia use a square crop of this file to better fit the infobox, however I feel that this full file shows the dynamics better. -- C-M (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- C-M (talk) 15:27, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! Sure. Yann (talk) 15:45, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment This a lovely well-taken sharp image, but you need to sort out the tilted horizon and cropping - I would like more in front of the bird than behind (or at least the same). Charles (talk) 15:47, 1 May 2018 (UTC).

  Wow, how could I miss this? You are totally correct, I fixed the horizon. C-M (talk) 16:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

• Did you fix it? Charles (talk) 21:54, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

• Yes, have a look on the image history. If you still see the tilt in the stones you may need to clear the browser cache (or open the page in a private browser window) C-M (talk) 10:37, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support - Fantastic, with all the trailing water droplets. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:13, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Stunning shot! --Basotxerri (talk) 18:29, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:01, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Small fish for a big bird.--Ermell (talk) 19:58, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Wet-blanket oppose The bird is stunning alright, but the complicated background takes too much away from it. Daniel Case (talk) 20:26, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Request Hi C-M, very nice shot of an impressive action with a rather high level of details ! I certainly  support[update : change to  Neutral in favor to the alternative below -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:33, 9 May 2018 (UTC)] but also want to suggest you to nominate this Alt version File:White_tailed_eagle_raftsund_square_crop.jpg that you created too, because I find the crop much better, making the subject eye-catching -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:14, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

• As mentioned in the description I prefer this one. Howerver, feel free to nominate the cropped Version if you want. C-M (talk) 10:37, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

• Great, thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Weak support I find the very blue swimming pool-like waves at odds with the rest of the image but it is a good capture of the bird and you can't bee too choosy when you get such a shot. --Cart (talk) 08:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

• I could add an alternative with the blue less saturated, but that would be further away from reality than the current version - it was a blue sky day and the color is just as it came out of camera (or, to be precise, what Capture 1 thinks the colors should look like out of camera) --C-M (talk) 20:56, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Personal opinion: I would have given the bird a bit more lead room to the right. --Granada (talk) 09:26, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

• Well, as usual for this kind of photography: First consideration with framing is to actually keep the bird within the frame - dont ask how many amazing pictures I have which I scrapped due to some lack of important body parts ;-) There is simply no more pixels on the right side of my crop, but I dont think that is bad in this case as the splashing water behind the eagle is quite nice. --C-M (talk) 20:56, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support Of course more lead on the right would be ideal, but depite that it's amazing quality. Charles (talk) 07:56, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Both versions are great, although both crops are not ideal. Maybe you can find something inbetween - the right border as in the original version, the left border wider than in the alternative version, top and bottom as in the alternative version. --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:38, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Info Per above. Pinging previous voters : C-M, Yann, Ikan Kekek, Basotxerri, Martin Falbisoner, Ermell, Daniel Case, Cart, Granada.
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:25, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Also OK. --Yann (talk) 04:17, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support - Also good, restful shape. I like the other version better, though, because it's more exciting with all the trailing drops of water. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:29, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Question - Would it be legitimate for me to instead oppose this photo in favor of the other one? I'd really rather that version won. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:40, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support This one gives more attention to the bird and doesn't let the background overwhelm it. Daniel Case (talk) 05:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment This one loses the water droplets. Charles (talk) 07:58, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support--shizhao (talk) 08:06, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support also fine with me --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:34, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support --Basotxerri (talk) 19:13, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support Both versions are great, although both crops are not ideal. Maybe you can find something inbetween - the right border as in the original version, the left border wider than in the alternative version, top and bottom as in the alternative version. --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:38, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:35, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment The subject is really sharp and the capture great, but the image looks a bit awkward to me, on the eagle there are strong shadows and direct sun light, somehow this doesn't match the background. Furthermore there is a clearly visible halo around the subject, I think that the processing has room for improvement Poco² 09:02, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
•  Comment @Poco: Turns out I had some image sharpening for screen enabled in my export settings, I reuploaded the files without sharpening. Regarding the light situation: note that this picture has been taken in early April above the arctic circle. The sun was in my back, shining at the rather shallow angle of 27° which is why there is light below the wings. I did however pull up the shadows a little bit in order to show more details below the wings. Here it comes to personal preference, I find these details important and as I somehow have to compress the large dynamic range of the scene available in my 14 bit raw file down into the 8 bit jpeg file there is no perfect solution. I also prefer hand drawn field guides over photos as they can exaggerate the details in feathers over what is visible in a photo, allowing the trained observer to distinguish the minute differences between some species. C-M (talk) 15:29, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

  Thank for your detailed explanation, the new version is not perfect but the halo is softer, you got my  Support Poco² 19:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 16:05, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 00:18, 11 May 2018 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Accipitriformes

The chosen alternative is: File:White tailed eagle raftsund square crop.jpg