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A young fluffed up female Blackbird (Turdus merula) in a residential area hedge in north-west Germany.
Edit 1: Contrast boost, background blur
Edit 2: Less insane contrast boost, background blur (more work to finetune the mask)
Edit 3: edit 2 with yellow grass cloned out.
Reason
High resolution shot, made with a Maksutov 300mm telescope. Shows the female Blackbird appearence in contrast to the male specimen appearing in the taxobox.
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Blackbird
Creator
User:Dschwen
Good idea, I love the picture but that yellow straw kills me. Leave the rest of the blurred foreground, though. Enuja 22:08, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know, doctoring the picture like that seems a little dirty to me. The Storm Surfer 23:13, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support edit 2, for reasons stated above. I will also would probably support a decently cloned version, if it came to it, edit 3 but I really don't have a problem with the OOF grasses; they seem perfectly appropriate to the subject to me. mikaultalk 23:15, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Edit2 or Edit3 - It was harder to do than I expected, but here is a version in which the most annoying grass blade has been cloned out. Debivort 09:26, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support edit 3 I do like this image with the alterations as noted --Newton2 12:57, 15 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Edit 3. I'm a huge fan. The bird looks like she is staring at you, the feathers are fantastically clear, and the remaining blurry stems and background give context. Enuja 00:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Err, I just now looked at the page. You are absolutely and completely sure that this is Turdus merula, right? Enuja 00:51, 16 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Amsel_Weibchen_aufgeplustert_edit2_clone.jpg --YFB ¿ 13:51, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]