Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Golden monkey (Cercopithecus kandti) eating.jpg

File:Golden monkey (Cercopithecus kandti) eating.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals#Family : Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
•  Info There are around 2,500 endangered golden monkeys left in the wild. They live in large social groups at high elevation in an area in East Africa of 5,000 sq km. Bamboo is their favourite food. One of the images in Issue Three of my free magazine. Read the magazine here. Includes a feature on Poco a poco and images from Benh , George Chernilevsky and Ermell. All by Charlesjsharp -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:26, 01 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:26, 01 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support high quality and very valuable. Buidhe (talk) 22:49, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Nice to get one eating. And lovely magazine again. Cmao20 (talk) 23:50, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per others. I can't help thinking "He's got stuff in his hair!" ;-) -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:29, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 06:25, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 06:54, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:56, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 06:59, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Fischer.H (talk) 07:17, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
• @Charlesjsharp: Something is wrong with the voting period. --Ivar (talk) 10:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Info Ivar: There is nothing wrong with the voting period. Charles created this page at 08:27, 23 June 2020‎. Take a look in the page history. However, he didn't add it to this list until now, so the very short voting period is a result of that. Not sure why it was done in this manner. We could "reset" the nom by tweaking it using the {{Bots}} template from when Charles actually added it to the list and made it public. I think that would be better than going through all the mess of withdrawing and making a second nomination. What say you? --Cart (talk) 10:37, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

• Should be fixed now. --A.Savin 11:09, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks, you had a more elegant solution. --Cart (talk) 11:24, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment Why is there sharp texture on the monkey's right hand? Shouldn't it be out-of-focus and blurred? Is this some AI Sharpening artifact? Can it be tweaked? The broken near end of the bamboo looks oddly crisp, like someone has cut it out of the image with scissors. Compare to the original upload which is soft. I can see how better software can improve the lighting of the first version, but bringing this degree of sharpness that wasn't there makes me a bit uncomfortable. Along the monkey's right cheek, you can see bits where the out-of-focus background has got weirdly sharpened. The overall improvement is very impressive and these glitches are only visible at 100%, but I am a bit worried if the AI is introducing texture and crisp hair that wasn't actually captured? What do you think? -- Colin (talk) 10:12, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment All sharpening introduces sharpness 'that wasn't there'. Topaz AI software can be aggressive and introduce artefacts. It's a balance which I try to manage by using layers, but of course a) I don't always get it right and b) voters have different opinions of sharpness, noise etc. I can reduce the artefacts on the hand. The end of the bamboo is just carelessness where I reduced exposure, but didn't do it very well. New version on its way. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:36, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 13:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support The only niggle is that we can still spot transitions between the NRed area and the one unscattered by (I guess) the plugin. But it's doing a good job generally speaking. As a side note, good timing! ;) - Benh (talk) 17:51, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 05:47, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Good enough for the EV and the conditions under which it was taken. Daniel Case (talk) 18:21, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Labdajiwa (talk) 10:44, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 18:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Animals/Mammals#Family : Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)