Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:016 Wild Golden Eagle in flight at Pfyn-Finges (Switzerland) Photo by Giles Laurent.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds/Accipitriformes#Genus_:_Aquila
•  Info created by Giles Laurent - uploaded by Giles Laurent - nominated by Giles Laurent -- Giles Laurent (talk) 08:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Info Also please feel free to have a look at Featured media candidates as there is not many people active there.
•  Support -- Giles Laurent (talk) 08:23, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 08:44, 17 January 2024 (UTC) Overprocessing but the composition overcomes it ;-) --Laitche (talk) 12:36, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support PP makes it look almost like a painting, but it is still impressive.--Ermell (talk) 08:59, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Great. --Aristeas (talk) 09:06, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support per Ermell. -- Radomianin (talk) 09:18, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Impressive shot, just a tiny bit of CA that should be easy to get rid of on the edge of the tail and the tip of the wing at the bottom. -- Alexis Lours (talk) 10:02, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you, I'll fix the tiny bits of CA tonight. Giles Laurent (talk) 10:39, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

  Done, CA fixed (press cmd+R on mac or ctrl+F5 on windows with image open to force refresh). Giles Laurent (talk) 21:15, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 11:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 11:59, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support Sadly too tight at the bottom, but a great capture anyway Cmao20 (talk) 12:24, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support ★ 12:28, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:06, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Karelj (talk) 14:50, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 16:03, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support JukoFF (talk) 22:54, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --SHB2000 (talk) 22:57, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Weak support Crop is too tight at the bottom (like here), however, the level of detail is excellent, and the angle of view very striking -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:11, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 08:36, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 16:52, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Harlock81 (talk) 23:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 18:08, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 09:09, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Comment Great sight, but the tip of one of the feathers on the left wing is cropped. That would normally be grounds for failing an FPC nomination, and I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:59, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you. Basile and Cmao both mentionned it but the overall good aspects of this action shot weighted more in the balance. It is only a very small tip of one single feather that is only cropped a tiny bit (almost nothing). The bird was moving very fast and also approaching at the same time and it was already complicated to follow it and keep it in frame to have time to quickly unzoom fast enough (which I was already doing since I started at 600mm and was at 571mm at that point. I could of course extend very easily the bottom part of the image with generated AI but the shot would not be 100% natural anymore so I don't want to do that. Giles Laurent (talk) 08:24, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

• They mentioned that the crop was too tight but didn't specifically state that a feather was partly cropped out. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

  I think that it is implicit. Basile provided a link to another image where two feathers where cropped. But the differences between the other image and this one are resolution, level of detail, noise and angle of view among others. If you take into account these elements, they outweight in my opinion by far the extremely tiny bit of feather that got cropped due to the fact that it was an action shot. Giles Laurent (talk) 12:34, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 21 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:08, 22 January 2024 (UTC)

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