Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, model D-274, manufactured at Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.png

File:Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, model D-274, manufactured at Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.png, featured edit

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Info created by Steinway & Sons - uploaded by Fanoftheworld - nominated by Fanoftheworld -- Fanoftheworld (talk) 02:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- This is a newly uploaded photo of the known concert grand piano, D-274, by the world-famous piano company, Steinway & Sons. Both the concert grand piano, D-274, and the company, Steinway & Sons, have their own large articles on Wikipedia: Steinway & Sons and Steinway D-274. For years, I have been looking for good photos of pianos and esspecially of Steinway pianos and this new photo is undoubtedly the best photo of a piano I have found. I am happy that this photo now can be used legally in Wikimedia projects like Commons and Wikipedia. This photo is of high resolution, clear, crisp and detailed, no noise, well-exposed and the piano is photographed from a very good angle. I have read the Commons:Image guidelines and as I see it this new photo is a featured picture. --Fanoftheworld (talk) 02:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Fanoftheworld (talk) 02:05, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Perfect. -- -donald- (talk) 07:55, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support professional studio environment. Regards, PETER WEIS TALK 12:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Cathy Richards (talk) 15:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per many of the comments. Saffron Blaze (talk) 16:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Katarighe (Talk) 16:58, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Luc Viatour (talk) 17:24, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 19:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - very nice, but shouldn't be in .png format. --Claritas (talk) 22:21, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Claritas. --WikedKentaur (talk) 13:39, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Comment – What about we just change the ".png format" to ".jpg format"? Do anyone know how to do this the easiest way? I have already a file in ".jpg format" with the same photo. (By the way, I fail to understand what is wrong with ".png format"). --Fanoftheworld (talk) 21:32, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Comment – I've just compared this photo in ".png format" to the same photo in ".jpg format" and it does definitely look best in ".png format". --Fanoftheworld (talk) 06:08, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    - Comment That could just be a bad conversion. What jpeg compression level was used? --99of9 (talk) 03:35, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support With so much pure-white space, and sharp edges to black, I think png actually might be better than jpg for this. Both in terms of compression, and artifacts. --99of9 (talk) 00:55, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- - - - I'm of the school of thought that .jpg is always better than .png for photographs. It makes images quicker to load, which improves the user experience, and if compression is done properly, there won't be much noticeable information loss at full resolution.--Claritas (talk) 21:25, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ritchyblack (talk) 10:13, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support png format, jpg format ... what is the difference? If you need a JPG format, then upload it simple. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 18:54, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Trongphu (talk) 22:37, 5 February 2012‎ (UTC)[reply]
Support Per 99of9. –ElmA (Talk – My files – E-mail) 15:03, 6 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Superb, brilliant quality. I love it. I've always loved pianos. Absolutely brilliant. This image just blew me away. Although I also think you should convert this image to JPG. TrebleSeven (talk) 13:40, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 14 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 08:50, 10 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects