Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Amur leopard

Amur leopard

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Apr 2015 at 07:15:56 (UTC)

Original – An Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) at the Colchester Zoo, England; this cat is critically endangered, with only about 70 animals left in the wild.

Reason: High resolution, good quality picture with high EV of an Amur leopard showing the entire body; being critically endangered, captive pictures are often the best available.
Articles in which this image appears: Amur leopard
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Mammals
Creator: William Warby

Support as nominator – —Bruce1ee^talk 07:15, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Beautiful animal, but to my eye backlighting in this view impairs contrast with background. Sca (talk) 13:31, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Jobas (talk) 01:04, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Fylbecatulous talk 22:10, 10 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Something seems wrong with this photo. The animal looks sharp, but the background is awfully blurry. Did someone Photoshop the animal into this scene, or is there some photography technique that would allow a photographer to get a sharp main subject while having the background look so bad? This isn't bokeh, it's just plain bad. --Pine^✉ 02:18, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This picture is part of a series taken by the photographer at Colchester Zoo here. I see no evidence of digital manipulation. —Bruce1ee^talk 04:57, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bruce1ee, I like the set but that background of this particular image I find too distracting at full res, even if it's not manipulated. Some of those other images might be good Commons FPCs. --Pine^✉ 06:50, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I agree with Pine. Distracting background and to be honest the lighting isn't particularly great. Seddon ^talk 10:47, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted -- — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:29, 17 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]