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Soft-plumaged Petrel

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Original – The soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma mollis) is a species of seabird in the family Procellariidae.
Reason
High quality image of small bird in flight at sea from a boat in swell. Photographing pterodromas is never easy - I got one crack at this as it passed the boat.
Articles in which this image appears
Soft-plumaged petrel
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds
Creator
JJ Harrison
  • Support as nominator – JJ Harrison ( talk) 03:30, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support Geoffroi ( talk) 05:04, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose Over-processed sea. It appears that the sea has been blurred/aggressively noise-reduced. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 08:25, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
    • Nonsense. It's just not taken with a crop body and a large aperture. The depth of field is about half of what it is with a 7D, 400 at 5.6 if you do the math. JJ Harrison ( talk) 22:51, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
      • I apologise as I do not have experience with your camera set up. But grateful if you send me the out-of-camera image before any processing then I scan stop imagining things! Charlesjsharp ( talk) 09:12, 6 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support - I don't see the blurred background to be a significant problem. Much of it was likely out of the depth of field at f/4 anyway. MER-C 14:58, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
    No. The sea would be in focus. But it's been blurred. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 22:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support - I also don't see the background blurred to be a problem, there is no EV for the background. Mattximus ( talk) 21:36, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
    It's not a matter of EV. It's clearly a matter of opinion how much one post-processes an image. With this amount of processing we are not judging a genuine wildlife photo. I'm not happy with that for encyclopaedic value. Charlesjsharp ( talk) 22:26, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • I guess what I should have said is that the EV here is for the bird, not the water. The bird is in focus, so that's why I said it has high EV. Mattximus ( talk) 22:30, 10 June 2019 (UTC) reply
    • You're making it very clear you have no experience with full frame cameras and big prime lenses. Much less noise and more subject isolation from the background is normal. JJ Harrison ( talk) 22:51, 5 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support. Fine capture. DoF looks normal for this sort of photo. I can see what looks like a little bit of pan-motion blur on the crest of the wave but I don't think it's problematic. — David Eppstein ( talk) 00:44, 6 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support -- Palauenc05 ( talk) 10:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC) reply
  • Support.-- Vulp here 12:23, 14 June 2019 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Pterodroma mollis light morph - SE Tasmania 2019.jpg -- Armbrust The Homunculus 06:07, 15 June 2019 (UTC) reply

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