Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Pitta sordida - Sri Phang Nga.jpg

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Reason

Another colourful Pitta. I got seriously lucky with some of these a while back. High quality, sharp image. The two second exposure is mostly a fluke!

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Hooded Pitta

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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds

Creator

JJ Harrison

• Support as nominator --JJ Harrison (talk) 09:43, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support, another beauty pageant contestant (although I wonder why modern cameras still can't entirely focus on small objects like these). Brandmeister^talk 09:59, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

• Because physics. Going off the exif data and this calculator at f/4 with a 500mm focal length and the subject 6.47m away with JJ's camera there's 2.84cm of depth of field--which is smaller than the bird is. Cowtowner (talk) 10:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

• Assuming a perfectly spherical bird in a vacuum... J Milburn (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• Someone, somewhere has probably decided that's animal cruelty, but I'd be curious to see one anyways. Cowtowner (talk) 23:03, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Cowtowner (talk) 10:28, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support --Arctic Kangaroo (✉ • ✎) 15:23, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support　Two second exposure time! Maybe this bird was waiting for you ✿ --Laitche (talk) 16:16, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
• Eternal Support for two-second exposure – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 06:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support as above. J Milburn (talk) 17:33, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support per above. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 18:30, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support. Two second exposure?? A fluke but also a bit of an accident, surely? Completely inappropriate shutter speed/ISO. :) I'm shocked that you didn't get any blur. Even if you used mirror lock up, there must be some sort of vibration (wind, etc) in two seconds...? Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:18, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
  • My newish tripod is pretty rock solid (gitzo GT-5532LS). I broke the old one. But for this shot I was dealing with a broken (read: wobbling) tripod head. Sharp shots around 1/15th were proving difficult. Since the bird was sitting extremely still for a few seconds at a time I tried a longer exposure with a remote release and live view to avoid mirror slap. A two second shot can have less blur because there is time for vibration to die out. Eventually I'll get a new gimbal, when I can afford it. Since then I've made makeshift repairs. JJ Harrison (talk) 03:38, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
• Support Excellent. Indefatigable2 (talk) 21:20, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Pitta sordida - Sri Phang Nga.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:43, 2 July 2013 (UTC)