Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lemon shark

Lemon shark

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2010 at 21:02:02 (UTC)

Reason

Great composition, obvious EV, very eye-catching. The quality is not super-high, but it's a big image and an underwater shot, so I think we can let that slide.

Articles in which this image appears

Lemon shark, Negaprion

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish

Creator

Albert kok

• Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 21:02, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Support good EV. Quality is decent. Comment: there ought to be some mention of the
  talk) 23:52, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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  • Oppose I hadn't noticed the posterisation and compression artifacts, but now that they are mentioned, I no longer think the image has sufficient technical quality to be featured.
    talk) 01:40, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• Support Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose The angle, combined with the remoras, makes it hard to make out what exactly in the photo is the shark's fins. Compare how clear this image and this image are. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:57, 14 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • While this is nothing on the white shark image, I see it as far stronger, compositionally, than the tiger shark pic. J Milburn (talk) 00:27, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    • Do these sharks more often than not have remoras? If so, it would be deceptive to use a photo without them. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 08:24, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Support agree with JM.
  Nergaal (talk) 18:24, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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  • • Striking my support due to the compression artefacts.
      Nergaal (talk) 07:49, 17 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• Oppose I agree with Calliopejen1. --Avenue (talk) 04:01, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose: Noticeable posterisation, lots of compression artefacts, see top left lighter blue.
  talk 23:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)[reply
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• Withdrawn. Oh well, I still like it :) J Milburn (talk) 12:28, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:07, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Withdrawn by nominator. Makeemlighter (talk) 01:07, 20 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]