Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Long-billed Corella.jpg

Perched Long-billed Corella

Original - A Perched Long-billed Corella (Cacatua (Licmetis) tenuirostris). Long billed Corellas are popular pets in many parts of Australia. This may be due to their ability to mimic words and whole sentences to near perfection.

Edit 1 by Diliff. Darkened feathers slightly so that the feather hightlights show the texture better

Reason

A high quality image of a Long-billed Corella. It seems to fit the appropriate criteria.

Articles this image appears in

Long_billed_corella, Cockatoo, Licmetis

Creator

Noodle snacks

• Support as nominator --Noodle snacks (talk) 04:09, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 11:07, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Capital photographer (talk) 11:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Oversharpened and on the small side. Nice picture otherwise. --Dschwen 12:19, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Comments Please do not just remove discussions from a nomination. If you feel it does not belong there, then re-direct it elsewhere. Muhammad(talk) 18:32, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I agree with Muhammad. I know its easy to just say you support as per the nom, but it is expected that you provide a reason, just the same as an oppose. In this case it won't matter, but in some controversial noms it is important for obtaining consensus. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 22:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support somewhat creepy. --Meldshal42 (talk) 19:46, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Good Photo worthy of FP. --Mifter (talk) 20:04, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support nice picture, well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• 20:39, 2 July 2008
• Support really sharp and the colours are great --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
• Weak Support. I don't like the background, and I agree with Dschwen that it's slightly oversharpened, but it's still feature-worthy. NauticaShades 00:52, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support Rj1020 (talk) 02:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support for aesthetic appeal, the colours are gorgeous. It is also somewhat creepy, giving it an additional odd appeal. I think a lot of people would click on the image on the main page. --Blechnic (talk) 06:33, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

*Comment The body looks like a big white blob, can this be fixed? Greener Cactus (talk) 20:32, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

• • That depends whether you can fix your display. ;-) The bird's feathers are not overexposed, although they are lacking slightly in texture on the back. I don't believe its a problem with the photography though. Its just the way the feathers look. I have found that you can make the texture more visible if you apply about 20% highlight reduction in the Photoshop Shadows/Highlights tool. I'll upload it as an edit and let others decide. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 21:57, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
• Support edit 1 looks much better, now it looks more like a bird than a snowball.Greener Cactus (talk) 07:46, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Long-billed Corella.jpg MER-C 07:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)