Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Northern rough-winged swallow 7226.jpg

Image:Northern rough-winged swallow 7226.jpg, not featured

•  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Dori --Dori - Talk 17:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Info A northern rough-winged swallow eating a bug
•  Support --Dori - Talk 17:44, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Lovely composition and the action!--Mbz1 (talk) 22:24, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Ordinary capture of ordinary subject; low contrast. I do not think the wire contributes to the image. Also, resolution is low (I am not talking about pixel count). Crapload (talk) 01:10, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
  • It may be ordinary, but there is only one other northern rough-winged image in Commons besides those I took\, and it's not the full bird (pretty good detail as it's by Mdf, see Image:Stelgidopteryx-serripennis-001.jpg but still at 700mm is not much more detailed than my 300mm). Also note that I was pretty close to this small bird, you can't get much closer without capturing it. --Dori - Talk 01:23, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment The major issue is the DOF on this. Assuming the lens used is the 70-300, it's been set wide-open (F/5.6) which has dropped the bird's face out of the plane of good focus. F/11 and 200th of a sec would have worked better to get the whole subject sharp. - Peripitus (talk) 10:45, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Maybe, but I think this bird is in focus. I've rarely gotten anything sharper than this with this lens on a subject this small. Of course an L lens would do better. --Dori - Talk 14:17, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination Actually I was able to get even closer to some other birds today (minimal focussing distance on my lens). --Dori - Talk 16:18, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

result: withdrawn => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 15:18, 3 July 2008 (UTC)