Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sturnus vulgaris in Napa Valley.jpg

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File:Sturnus vulgaris in Napa Valley.jpg, not featured[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 23 Nov 2009 at 01:49:49 (UTC)
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Sturnus vulgaris
What about the crop, if I may ask?--Mbz1 (talk) 11:00, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't like that you can't see all of the birds in the flock. I appreciate, since it was obviously a large flock, that it probably wasn't possible. The photo to me just looks like lots of dark flecks on blue and even the largest birds aren't clear when zoomed in. For me, I'd either like a picture with beautiful composition where you can see an entire flock but not make out the birds clearly, or a small flock where, when you zoom in, you have great focus on at least some of the birds. --Silversmith Hewwo 23:19, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
My deliberate choice???? What in a world do you mean?For everybody else here's how those birds are flying In my situation that "bird cloud" just happened to be all around me, so I guess it really was my "deliberate choice" . I wish I had many more choices like that one, I really do because it is a sight to behold--Mbz1 (talk) 17:14, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
To answer to the points you've added after my answer below, even though you do not control the birds, you do control the composition to a large extent, and you are the nominator of this FPC, which makes the choice of such a composition for FPC to be deliberate (or, in other words : calculated, advised, intentional, well though out...) --S23678 (talk) 23:09, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
These thousands of birds fly in a somewhat chaotic way, which is expressed in the composition. It seems to be deliberately chaotic, a picture nominated for it's absence of apparent order. --S23678 (talk) 17:21, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alt 1[edit]

Sturnus vulgaris

Any better? --Mbz1 (talk) 14:36, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, here's the original File:Sturnus vulgaris in Napa Valley original.jpg. As you could see there was not just one plant, but two plants in the image. I did not want simply to cut the the plants off because then some nice birds would have been cut off as well. So I removed the plants using cloning. Of course I added "retouched" template to the edit.--Mbz1 (talk) 00:08, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No, not like Lošmi *sigh*. Lošmi supported the original one, while you only opposed alternative. On the other hand it is good that you opposed as Lošmi and not as S23678 :) --Mbz1 (talk) 22:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 09:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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