Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Ngorongoro Grant-Gazelle.jpg

Grant's Gazelle

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Original - A male Grant's Gazelle eating in the Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania. The tail is constantly moving to disturb insects.

Edit 1 Removed speckles-type noise.

Reason

Illustrative, high res

Articles in which this image appears

Grant's Gazelle

FP category for this image

Mammals

Creator

Ikiwaner

• Support as nominator --Ikiwaner (talk) 16:31, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
• Question What did you use for denoising? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 16:40, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
• Support - very crisp image, illustrates the subject well. Tim Pierce (talk) 21:03, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
• Support - beautiful image with a high educational value. Clementina talk 05:31, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

In the edit the horns now look like injection molded plastic. Plenty of details got lost: Compare the tail, the eyes the mouth and the cheek of the edit with the original. --Ikiwaner (talk) 12:33, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree. Tim Pierce (talk) 13:56, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

• Support Strongly prefer the original. Cowtowner (talk) 12:57, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose Question went unanswered and noise issues seem beyond repair. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 01:36, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
  • To be honest, I can't even see any real noise in the first picture. I think that's just the texture of the animal. Cowtowner (talk) 15:51, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
    • The actual undenoised original is here. There's no texture that I know of that produces bright white specks on black background without any blurring on the edges - clearly digital noise, and of a slightly strange kind. The same problem came up in the previous gazelle nom by the same uploader. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 00:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

There is no undenoised version. I denoise almost all my pictures with NeatImage and a color chart based profile for my camera. A chart got used to build a input colour profile in order to produce best colour reproduction. I sharpen my images with Photokit Sharpener and I manually mask the sharpening layers to avoid sharpening where it's not serving anything. My images are optimized for best sharpness when viewed from ~1.5 times its diagonal. This has the "downside" of showing the structure PLW found in this image when viewed on his ~150ppi screen at 100%. PLW has proven with his ultra denoised version that you can't have both sharpness at normal viewing distance and smoothness in large zooms. I could just overwrite the image with a downsampled version and you wouldn't see those speckles anymore. Actually that is what I did with the other image and PLW promptly supported. --Ikiwaner (talk) 17:54, 22 September 2010 (UTC)