Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Barn swallow in Montezuma (14460).jpg

File:Barn swallow in Montezuma (14460).jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Hirundinidae_(Swallows)
•  Info Male barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) in the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge. all by — Rhododendrites ^talk |  01:21, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support — Rhododendrites ^talk |  01:21, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Weak support Some highlights are blown and the picture is perhaps slightly overexposed. What makes me support is the composition with an appealing smooth bokeh in the background -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:31, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support per Basile. --SHB2000 (talk) 01:40, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Could you please add geocoordinates? --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:44, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
  •  Done — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:50, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:26, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Portrait mode is better - low % of bird is on photo. + some contrast. --Mile (talk) 12:34, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 13:17, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
• @PetarM: I actually uploaded a portrait version first: here. I went back and forth about which I liked better -- curious what others think. Pinging other participants: @Basile Morin, SHB2000, Frank Schulenburg, Aristeas, and Palauenc05: . — Rhododendrites ^talk |  14:50, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

• I wasn't ping but still have an opinion. I prefer the portrait version much better and would support it (I abstain here). By the way, is there anything you can do to improve the overexposed areas on the head? Poco a poco (talk) 08:20, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

•  New version uploaded - A few supported the portrait shot, and nobody expressed a preference for landscape, so I went ahead and reinstated the crop. As for the head, no -- not without adding something that wasn't actually there, anyway. The sun was bright, but it landed briefly unusually close to me and on a stick that actually provided some separation from the reeds (and wasn't backlit by the empty sky), so I'm happy with it anyway. :) — Rhododendrites ^talk |  12:51, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

•  Support for the portrait version. -- Radomianin (talk) 20:13, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Question Is anyone else seeing the artefacts on the neck feathers and the halo around the tail? Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:11, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

• That area is not as sharp as others but I wouldn't call that artefacts Poco a poco (talk) 08:20, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

•  Oppose You might be right that artefact (created by man) is the wrong word - a halo can either come from light distortion and be in the raw file or from processing - the halo on the tail looks like a processing flaw to me, but either is bad news. There are also over-exposed areas on the bird's head and the dead flowers. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:19, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Fine. --Mile (talk) 07:29, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 23:39, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 07:54, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
•  Neutral Really love the photo and glad to see you got upstate but Charles has a point here. Daniel Case (talk) 03:47, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--SHB2000 (talk) 05:14, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Birds/Passeriformes#Family_:_Hirundinidae_(Swallows)