Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Rooster crowing close-up.jpg

File:Rooster crowing close-up.jpg, not featured

Voting period ends on 4 May 2009 at 12:04:45

•  Info Taken at sunrise, a rooster crowing. Notice the sharp teeth like structure in its mouth used for mechanical digestion. Everything by Muhammad Mahdi Karim -- Muhammad (talk) 12:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Muhammad (talk) 12:04, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I find the use of direct flash here distracting, also composition could be better (more space on the right side of the image). --Spock lone wolf (talk) 13:15, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
  • At 6.24 am, you don't have many options to capture fast action apart from a flash. --Muhammad (talk) 17:30, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

That's possibly true, however you still have other options. Using bounced flash if possible, use softbox or diffuser, or use other flash unit not on the camera... But using only direct flash on camera should usually be the last option to fall back. --Spock lone wolf (talk) 17:40, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose I am also not so happy with the flash and the composition, although it is interesting to see the inside of the beak. Size is within guidelines but still very small. --AngMoKio (talk) 17:22, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 19:21, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose, per wolf. --Aqwis (talk) 21:48, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support--Ltshears (talk) 21:56, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Support funny picture --ianaré (talk) 04:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose As per AngMoKio -- Tiago Fioreze (talk) 17:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose. Flat flash lighting looks boring. Picture is pretty small by todays standards. --Dschwen (talk) 20:43, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I never can appeal to flashlight pictures </prayer mill> --Richard Bartz (talk) 00:27, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Neutral I don't mind the flash too much (I don't think it's as obvious here as it is in others that pass), but I agree that it's pretty small. I really like this view of the rooster.  :-/ So I'm remaining neutral. And just to show that I'm not an anal perfectionist, I'm going to leave that clumsy and awkward parenthetical statement. It is causing me some distress, though! Maedin\^talk 06:50, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per others. —kallerna™ 16:01, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

result: 4 support, 7 oppose, 1 neutral => not featured. Maedin\talk 17:58, 4 May 2009 (UTC)