Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:2016 Invictus Games, US Wheelchair Basketball Team plays UK for gold 160512-D-BB251-005 (cropped).jpg

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Info created by Roger Wollenberg - uploaded by Fæ - nominated by Fæ -- Fæ (talk) 11:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Email correspondence this month with Roger Wollenberg clarified that the photograph is in focus, but could not be made sharper due to the speed of the game and necessary shutter speed. As the event was indoors, there needed to be a high ISO and as this was a real sports event rather than a composition, options such as using high powered lights were impossible. This version has a slight crop, removing a top shadowy border in the background, some of the yellow foreground, and helps to focus on the central portrait. At the current time I can find no existing FPs for wheelchair sports. -- Fæ (talk) 11:04, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is a great action shot, and the noise doesn't bother me considering the circumstances -- Thennicke (talk) 11:58, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 14:53, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Apart from softness and noise it’s just too busy for me. If it wasn’t for the men in the background, but as it is, the main subjects do not stand out clearly enough to make the picture special. The circumstances do not excuse for drawbacks here IMHO. We look for the very finest images, not for the best possible ones. Sometimes you simply cannot take a featurable shot. --Kreuz schnabel 16:09, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Option we had before was much better, but noise. Now this one is out. --Mile (talk) 16:15, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support INeverCry 18:10, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I find this a more exciting and better-lit scene than the other one, but is it really impossible to sharpen the photo a bit more? I don't really want to oppose a feature for this photo. I think it's good enough at full-page size, but the degree of graininess at full size bothers me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:55, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 4 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 20:01, 28 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]