Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Pygmy cormorants (Microcarbo pygmaeus) Danube delta.jpg

File:Pygmy cormorants (Microcarbo pygmaeus) Danube delta.jpg

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•  Info 16 cormorant FPs, but none of this species. All by Charlesjsharp-- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:47, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:47, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 00:24, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Question How big are these birds? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see that info in the Wikipedia article. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:17, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

• Have added length 64-78cm to article. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:39, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

•  Support IMHO the sharpening is a bit too strong (see the branches and leaves at the bottom, they look somewhat artificical), but here I can regard this as a matter of taste. --Aristeas (talk) 10:11, 30 September 2022 (UTC) Good now, see below. --Aristeas (talk) 08:06, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
•  Support the use of space and triple setup are working for me, even though Aristeas made a valid point --Virtual-Pano (talk) 13:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

• New version uploaded with 50% less NR and sharpening. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:01, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

• Even better now – thank you very much, Charles! --Aristeas (talk) 07:26, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose No wow, sorry. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 21:12, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Good QI, but not enough good for FP, as above. -- Karelj (talk) 21:49, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others, --Fischer.H (talk) 07:40, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Comment Regarding wow: I really like how the 3 birds, looking in the same direction, sit on three similar bare branches. This looks like a careful arrangement and makes the photo special for me. --Aristeas (talk) 08:06, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Support I agree with you, but the birds aren't so small. Overall, though, I think they are sharp enough as a group of 3 with this good a composition. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:56, 1 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Support I like the composition very much but would appreciate if the halo around the birds would be eliminated. I see some highlights there. --Micha (talk) 11:31, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose per others. Namely, I fail to see where's the wow. --SHB2000 (talk) 12:20, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
•  Weak support I wonder if the image can be brightened a bit ... I understand that the exposure and 400 ISO may have been necessary to get the image in the first place but is that an issue in post? Also, I think it could help to get rid of so much dead space atop the image ... maybe cropping from the top to about halfway between it and the birds? Daniel Case (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment Too much empty / boring sky in my view. I would crop at least one quarter of the top -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:31, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

• Cropped version uploaded... Charlesjsharp (talk) 21:05, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

• Much better, IMO. I think that's a big enough compositional change that everyone should be pinged. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:38, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

• I've been asked to ping everyone because I cropped the top bit of sky. @Cmao20, Ikan Kekek, Aristeas, Virtual-Pano, Frank Schulenburg, Karelj, Fischer.H, Dan Mihai Pitea, SHB2000, Daniel Case, Basile Morin, and Iifar: Charlesjsharp (talk) 18:22, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Weak support Although I understand Ivar below, I also think the gathering of three big birds like these is quite exceptional -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:50, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Oppose sorry, but imo the birds are too far away from each other to make this compo work. -- Ivar (talk) 12:25, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Iifar. --SHB2000 (talk) 23:26, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

 I withdraw my nomination Not going to make it. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:41, 8 October 2022 (UTC)