Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Male Mallard Headshot.jpg

Image:Male Mallard Headshot.jpg - not featured

•  Info created, uploaded, and nominated by JDiPierro -- JDiPierro 22:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- JDiPierro 22:58, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Exposure could be a bit better, but the atypical composition appeals to me. It is slightly noisy (what was the ISO?), but I really like the background blur. Freedom to share 17:12, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment It was at ISO-1600, It was a bright sunny day but the lens I have is horridly un-sharp so I shoot it at high ISO to get the fastest shutter speed possible. I can't fix ISO without killing what sharpness there is so if anyone can, feel free to upload a different version (but remember to credit me :D). --JDiPierro 21:58, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

•  Question Do you still have the RAW file? Freedom to share 11:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

It was, unfortunately, shot at JPEG compression. 67.240.35.101 19:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

But on a sunny day there is almost no reason whatsoever to use ISO1600. A fast shutter speed won't make a bad lens sharp, it'll only minimise camera shake. A bad lens is generally sharpest around f/8 and you could easily shoot at that at ISO 100. I see from the EXIF that you used f/5.6. That is going to contribute more to an image being unsharp than shooting at a slightly slower shutter speed. A rule of thumb is that you can usually shoot at around the focal length in 100th of a second shutter speed In other words, if you have a 300mm lens (assuming a full frame camera - multiply it by the crop factor of the camera if not), then you should be able to shoot at 1/300th of a second and get a sharp image. It all depends on how steady you can personally keep the camera though, and what you define as sharp. Use it as a guide though, and experiment. Diliff 22:43, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

•  Oppose Not enough wow, overexposed and noisy. Barabas 22:46, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

2 support, 1 oppose >> not featured -- Alvesgaspar 08:00, 19 May 2008 (UTC)