Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Bubo bubo portrait.jpg

Image:Bubo bubo portrait.jpg, featured

•  Info created by indygnome - uploaded by Pharaoh Hound - nominated by Pharaoh Hound --Pharaoh Hound 12:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Pharaoh Hound 12:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 22:15, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Benjamint444 22:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice portrait of an owl. The unfocused foreground is a price to pay. I like the reflection in the eye. Alvesgaspar 00:42, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Thermos 04:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Great detail around the eyes --Simonizer 07:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Detail only around the eye. Cut "ears". Hiden beak. Empty on the right. Olegivvit 14:32, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Digon3 15:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --AngMoKio 20:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose This was a tough one. In the middle, there is a very impressive amount of detail. However, as the background can't be made out (would be nice to see it in a habitat), and part of the foreground (lower left corner) is out of focus, I am going to have to say no...Great photo besides!--Vox Rationis 21:38, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
  •  Comment It's strange that a blurred backgound can be used as a reason to oppose. Photographers often use that as a way of bringing attention to the main subject, and avoiding distracting background detail. Have a look at the portfolio of any top nature photographer. It's a shame when perfectly normal photographic technques are listed here as 'flaws'. The same applies to the use of limited depth of field: any image that use that technique is almost certain to be objected to on the grounds that 'it's not all in focus'. End of moan. --MichaelMaggs 22:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose - ditto to Olegivvit on the cut "ears"; also (well it's a good thing the background is out of focus!) zoo pic, not in its natural habitat - MPF 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack MPF. Lycaon 15:32, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support like Alvesgaspar --Packa 20:35, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose - dtto to Olegivvit on the cut "ears" --Karelj 21:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
•  Support because "opposing" is becoming serious. I hope my contribution helps to promote this pic I like pretty much. Benh 07:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Simonizer 06:26, 27 March 2007 (UTC)