Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Round ribbontail ray

Round ribbontail ray[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 11 Jan 2019 at 08:10:04 (UTC)

Reason: High EV underwater photo (which makes up for the technical shortcomings) that is featured on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Round ribbontail ray
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Fish
Creator: Rucha Karkarey

Support Edit 1 as nominator – MER-C 08:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 16:28, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support – SNN95 (talk) 09:39, 1 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Nice example of protective coloration, I guess, but lack of contrast makes this image difficult to access visually. Sca (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - Nice picture with good EV, though the right side is a bit tightly cropped. Comment to Sca, its actually behavioral exhibition of the subject, bit more contrast may destroy the EV IMO. -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:13, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1 Imperfect, per Sca and DreamSparrow, but given the difficulties of underwater composition and the value of the demonstration of its camouflage, I'd say it's good. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 18:05, 4 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1, Oppose Original The edit by PJeganathan on this file is awful - the shadows are blown, the highlights are blown and there is an unnatural level of contrast. It's not encyclopaedic. This isn't the case with the original image uploaded by Ruchakarkarey. I would have reverted it if not for WP:FPC and COM:FP etc. I've uploaded a new edit with a much more minor adjustment of contrast relative to the original and the use of a camera shake reduction filter to improve the sharpness quite a bit. JJ Harrison (talk) 20:05, 5 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1, Oppose Original Wow the new version is much much better. Mattximus (talk) 23:13, 6 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 --Yann (talk) 13:50, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Porcupine ray from Lakshadweep JJH edit.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:38, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]