Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Female Mallard and ducklings in Golden Gate Park.jpg

File:Female Mallard and ducklings in Golden Gate Park.jpg

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•  Info everything by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 03:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 03:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Neutral  Support Excellent quality, but per Alvesgaspar so many times. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 05:24, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

So many times? What do you mean--Mbz1 (talk) 09:09, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

@Mbz1: You really don't understand ? Lol ! Repeat after me 1..., 2... :"...Let the poor thing......" etc...--Jebulon (talk) 10:19, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Ah, so it is about the crop. I might be able to fix it later on. --Mbz1 (talk) 13:20, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

I fixed the crop, but you need to clear your browser to see the fix. --Mbz1 (talk) 15:46, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Thank you, much better now. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 21:04, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Please write reviews so that they can be understood by new participants. In this example, "The crop is too tight" may suffice. Walter Siegmund (talk) 18:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

•  Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 20:43, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Nice light and colors, and they are sweet those ducklings. However, the photo has too much point and shoot character IMO from a compositional point of view. For comparison, we have another mallard FP (not with ducklings though), which is I find is better, concerning both composition and light. --Slaunger (talk) 21:35, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Info We have no single FP of Mallard duckings.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't like the top-view composition.. location of birds close to the mother etc I think a better form for a photo like that is possible. Ggia (talk) 22:38, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- Per ggia and slaungerMulazimoglu (talk) 07:17, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Nice --George Chernilevsky ^talk 10:01, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Very good DOF, and useful (to me)--Miguel Bugallo 19:01, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Strong support Adorable! --IdLoveOne (talk) 01:04, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Support — Habib M'HENNI ^{[¿tell me?]} 18:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Support Seems pretty flawless.--MONGO (talk) 04:30, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose Good technicals, but as far as photography is concerned, well... Slaunger and Ggia have said it - composition is snapshotty. This is another good alternative. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:40, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Slaunger and Ggia. All is nice, but not enough for a FP imo ( it suffers of comparison with already featured other similar pictures of female mallards)--Jebulon (talk) 11:51, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Info We have no single FP image of duclings. The one that was pointed out by Papa Lima Whiskey has all duckings out of the focus. It is much harder to take image of a family with each and every bird sharp and in focus than to take an image of a single bird, not to say that a "good alternative" is below 2 mega pixels.--Mbz1 (talk) 13:06, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- I like the picture and felt tempted to support. But the opposers are right, the "mallard bar" is way too high to let this one pass. Another good example is this one by Richard. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:45, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Agree, "mallard bar" is way too high, but I was not able to find a better image of ducklings on Commons. The one, which was offered as a "good alternative" is barely above 1 mega pixel with no single ducking that is in focus, just another image of a female mallard with background of the blurred ducklings. Richard's image is great as always, but no ducklings there. I just uploaded 2 images of a much higher resolution than "a good alternative" with at least some ducklings that are in the focus: File:Mallard Ducklings with mother 014.jpg and File:Mallards ducklings with mother.jpg, but I would not have nominated those for commons FP. --Mbz1 (talk) 21:50, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

•  Oppose--shizhao (talk) 19:58, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

• Please "[e]xplain your reasoning, especially when opposing a candidate (which has been carefully selected by the author/nominator). English is the most widely understood language on Commons, but any language may be used in your review." Walter Siegmund (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

•   --Mbz1 (talk) 18:53, 12 November 2010 (UTC)