Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Simphiwe Dana Wien2007a.jpg

Image:Simphiwe Dana Wien2007a.jpg, not featured edit

Info created, uploaded and nominated by Tsui 19:04, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like. Romary 20:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Bad lighting, much noise.--Beyond silence 20:58, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Lovely portrait at small sizes, but noisy in the largest. Unnecesarily horizontal, while there is a better cropped and colour edited version Image:Simphiwe Dana Wien2007aa.jpg --Javier ME 21:26, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I am aware, that lighting and sharpness are not the best (it was an open-air concert in the shadow of a building, not a portrait-shooting in a studio). As far as the edited version is concerned: in my eyes, while the light may be "better", the image loses most of its atmosphere when cropped and color-edited (and the noise increases). --Tsui 21:40, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unfortunate lighting and framing. Anrie 07:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Noise and the fact that part of the head is cropped off. --Digon3 ^talk 01:57, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is an extremely graceful and, may I say it, soulful pose and the opposers are a bunch of accountants who miss the intricate beauty of the image in their search for technical flaws :) I'd consider alternative edits though. ~ trialsanderrors 05:09, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Great facial expression. Some technical flaws but they are all tolerable for a event shot in my opinion. The light is not unfortunate, it fits the impression. The face is visible, thats important. I dont care if the headress is cut. Thats very common in portrait photography. But i also would like to see a vertical format. --Simonizer 09:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose crop -- Gorgo 17:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral First of all: This picture is great! But i would really prefer a color-improved version of this one. I prefer this uncroped version in this format...maybe it is possible to crop a little on the right side to move her a bit to the right side in order to "de-center" her a bit. But you have my support if you upload a color-improved version of this one. --AngMoKio 19:55, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I did an edit here, trying to focus on the skin tone and reduce pixel grain. I'm still not perfectly satisfied, and if people keep complaining about the cropped headdress it might not be worth nominating. ~ trialsanderrors 16:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Your edit is not bad. Though I have to say I like the format of this original picture. Well about the cropped headdress...the crop of the head is perfect and has to be like that. To crop upper parts of heads is a very common composition for portraits.--AngMoKio 08:04, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Info After reading and considering the comments above I was tempted to load up another edited version. But there are too many different recommendations: vertical or horizontal format (on de.wikipedia someone also mentioned square), more or less correction of color and/or light etc. ... there does not seem to be one version to satisfy all viewers (for enzyklopedic use, there are already two edited images, one by myself, one by by trialsanderrors). Personally I like the image just as it is, with the blurry background (including the black area at the left, which, to me, works as a visual completion of the image), with the cut headdress (otherwise the bust-like portrait would lose its vertical balance) and the bluish-pale colors which support the atmosphere); so I wont load up another edit for FPC. Nevertheless: thank you for all comments, feedback is always very welcome :-) Tsui 17:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Good portrait of a nice lady in a beatiful posture. Unfortunately the photographic quality is far from adequate for FP status. The edited version has better colours and crop but the chromatic noise is just too much. - Alvesgaspar 18:31, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I have taken a lot of concert images, it's always very hard. This one is nice. J-Luc 14:47, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

result: 3 support, 6 oppose, 2 neutral => not featured. Simonizer 07:58, 8 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]