Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Rock Pigeon Columba livia 3264px.jpg

Image:Rock Pigeon Columba livia 3264px.jpg, withdrawn

•  Info Created, uploaded, and nominated by Ram-Man. 02:31, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Info Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) in Central Park, NYC.
•  Support -- Ram-Man 02:31, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose tilted and not special --George Chernilevsky (talk) 06:48, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Distracting background, centered subject. →Diti the penguin — 09:51, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose - not the most inspiring composition - Peripitus (talk) 12:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Maybe it's a QI, but not a featured image --kaʁstn 13:30, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Comment Where's the harm in a centred subject? I probably prefer this approach, but there are no rules of good photogrpahy saying the subject should be at one side. Mtaylor848 (talk) 15:39, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
  • I agree in part. A centered image may be bad if the subject was too large (zoomed in too far). For example, if I had tightly cropped the bird and left out equal amounts on both sides, the resulting composition would be terrible with the bird facing outside the picture. In this case, however, the end user has the freedom to crop the image however they see fit, including cropping out the right side of the image. This loses nothing of the subject and achieves the "rule of thirds" composition. Cropping now means the end-user has fewer options. -- Ram-Man 16:15, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose as Peripitus. Should be easy to find another willing subject to shoot :) Downtowngal (talk) 16:45, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
•  I liked the "expression" of the bird, but it is clearly not acceptable. -- Ram-Man 00:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

result: 1 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => withdrawn. Maedin\talk 12:01, 30 June 2009 (UTC)