Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sperm whale pod.jpg

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Jan 2013 at 15:39:34 (UTC)

Reason: This is a photograph of a pod of sperm whales. The original photo (available here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/barathieu/7991520863/) was cropped and filtered to bring out the whale's natural grey color
Articles in which this image appears: sperm whale
FP category for this image: Physeter macrocephalus
Creator: Gabriel Barathieu

Support as nominator --Kurzon (talk) 15:39, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - Excellent EV, though it's quite grainy. YuMa NuMa ^Contrib 03:31, 19 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I was ready to say EV trumps quality on this but wow that's grainy and near the top where the turbulence is looks like it's been run through a soft brush filter in Photoshop. Cat-five t c ---- 16:36, 24 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support The value of this photo much outweighs the drawbacks in my opinion. The grain is not all that bad. Great find! Jujutacular (talk) 13:17, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Amadscientist (talk) 06:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with Jujutacular - there are severe extenuating circumstances for the quality defects. --99of9 (talk) 12:20, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Sadly, as would be a very good image, and still is at thumb, but have to agree with Cat-five that there's something seriously strange going on. Not just a noise issue, this looks like it's been through some sort of filter, may have even been a low intensity film-grain filter. Whatever it is, it doesn't look right. --jjron (talk) 15:28, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:40, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]