Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:James's Flamingoes in Laguna Colorada, Bolivia.jpg
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File:James's Flamingoes in Laguna Colorada, Bolivia.jpg, not featured[edit]
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Info created by Havardtl - uploaded by Havardtl - nominated by -- Havardtl (talk) 09:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Havardtl (talk) 09:33, 11 March 2018 (UTC)- Support -- P999 (talk) 11:51, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
Oppose To me the image sends out conflicting signals, it looks too far away for the flamingos and too close for the volcano and that makes it unharmonious. A wider shot might have been better. --cart-Talk 15:02, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for the critique, but what we are discussing is how "good" the images is, and it is here the opinion wars begin. To me the picture is of a group of flamingos, and the crop and wideness of the photo is good for showing just that. As the volcano is not the main subject of the photo it is not important that the whole of it is shown, but you see enough to set the scene for the flamingos. I actually think that it is better that you do not see the whole volcano, because that is such a typical subject that it is more interesting to see something different. --Havardtl (talk) 15:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- What you are describing is relevant to a Commons Quality Image or a Wikipedia Featured Picture. This is Commons Featured Pictures and for such the requirement is not just that a photo needs to be good, it also need to have "wow", in some way be spectacular and have a high artistic quality. "Opinion wars" are taking place here all the time! :) --cart-Talk 17:18, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- I believe that the way the volcano is cropped is partly why I like this picture, thus it is part of an opinion discussion. But I did really like your critique, exactly because your view is different from my view it emphasizes how different people see pictures differently! I referred to opinion wars because I wanted to emphasize that I did not try to discredit your view, just offer a different one. But I do see now that this is not very clear from my formulation. --Havardtl (talk) 15:37, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose per cart. Further, it seems unfortunate to me that some of the flamingo heads are above the borderline. A cleaner separation would have been desirable. --Basotxerri (talk) 15:52, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
- Good point about the heads, and I think that is a good enough reason to not be a FP, so
I withdraw my nomination. Being aware of the background while taking a photo is definitely one of the hardest parts of taking photos. --Havardtl (talk) 15:37, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
- Good point about the heads, and I think that is a good enough reason to not be a FP, so
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