Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Turkey vultures (01731).jpg

File:Turkey vultures (01731).jpg, not featured edit

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Info created/uploaded/nominated by — Rhododendrites ^talk | 21:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Rhododendrites ^talk | 21:05, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Yann (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --600+|-|$!F+ 21:21, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Per the points brought up below in the opposes. --BoothSift 01:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ahem... Boothsift, writing your user name in leet might not be the best idea you've had since most people can't read it. I suggest you read Wikipedia:Username policy, there are other ways of distinguishing yourself. --Cart (talk) 21:43, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@W.carter: Okay,

Done--BoothSift 00:02, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose With all due respect, I feel that this image is in no way one of the best on Commons. There is quite a bit of noise artifacting (and sharpening artifacts?). Also, that line in the background is very distracting, and the lighting seems a tad bit dull. IMHO, I don't personally think this is the type of image that would stand a chance in POTY too, sorry. _{clarification, this is my personal opinion and does not affect my vote} ― Gerifalte _Del Sabana 00:06, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good resolution and good sharpness. Ugly bird though! Cmao20 (talk) 00:43, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I think this is good enough. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:01, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, too distracting background and dull light. —kallerna™ 08:04, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose definition and background. But prospects for POTY have no bearing on FPC selection criteria Del Sabana. Charles (talk) 13:26, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- -- 🇪🅰〒©🇭🅰- 💬 14:14, 12 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ Yes, the background is distracting ~~and zoo shots are not comparable to the difficulties and merit of wild life shots~~ Poc o² 14:11, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Is this really a zoo shot? Going to the camera location, all I see are fields and forest. --Cart (talk) 15:14, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a zoo shot. It looked like a farm or sort of country estate in the middle of nowhere in the Santa Rosa mountains. I was driving down the road exploring the area when I saw a couple vultures sitting on/near a fence at the end of its driveway, so I pulled over, got out, and got as close as I could without scaring it off. The background is an unkempt field/meadow/lawn area with the forest line behind it. I would've tried to make it horizontal at least, but that would've required getting too close (part of that "difficulties of getting a good wild life shot" I suppose :) ). — Rhododendrites ^talk | 15:35, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying. Poco might want to strike that part of his comment ~~and not just assume that close-up animal/bird photos by "not-so-regular wild life photographers" are from zoos.~~ --Cart (talk) 15:50, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
In this case moving to Neutral. Cart, yes, you are right, I took the wrong assumption. But, you also did the same mistake, assuming that I come to that conclusion after checking who was the photographer. I come to that conclusion because it does indeed look like a zoo photo and there was no information in the nom that suggested otherwise. The bird is posing on a human-made post, the background is an (artificial) lighting... why don't you just spare such additional comments? they are not helpful in any way. --Poc o² 16:23, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done as requested. --Cart (talk) 17:01, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Gerifalte. Daniel Case (talk) 15:44, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The sharpness is ok for me but this black line in the background really spoils the composition. Also the light is poor (see for example the pillar) -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:17, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 5 support, 5 oppose, 2 neutral → not featured. /--MZaplotnik^(talk) 07:17, 21 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]