Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:20180105 Men's handball Austria - Czechia Pavel Horák 850 9028.jpg

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Info Men's handball Austria Czechia 2018-01-05, picture shows Pavel Horák (CZE), Mykola Bilyk (AUT), Romas Kirveliavicius (AUT) created by Granada - uploaded by Granada - nominated by Granada -- Granada (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Granada (talk) 17:34, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The main man is not in focus. Charles (talk) 19:54, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mild Support - I could wish for the man who's about to dunk (? that's what it looks like, a basketball player about to dunk the ball through the net; as a guy who grew up playing handball with Spaulding rubber balls against the wall, I find "team handball" weird and don't understand the rules) to be fully in focus, but of course a degree of motion blur is understandable. I could also wish for the defender Bilyk not to be cropped at the right foot. But all of these are minor points to me. The main point is that this photo is exciting! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:43, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Thank you very much for your comment on the cropping (btw: it's handball). It's a compromise between keeping the aspect ratio at 2:3 and not cutting off really important body parts. I tried to extract the czech forward only but then much of the excitement suffers from lastly not knowing how high he was jumping. The amount of excitement is the main reason why I nominated this and the main subject is not that much distracted from the spectators as in this other image: [1] --Granada (talk) 08:44, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's team handball, which I don't really recognize as a form of handball, but that's what they call it. We New Yorkers have a very different view of what handball is, as apparently do people in L.A. You can see an example here. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:28, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Not sure if the defender adds context or distracts. I'd say distracts. And I think you go too far with your NR. - Benh (talk) 23:22, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK maybe not NR, but something with either it, or the sharpening renders oil painting a little, and I personally don't like it - Benh (talk) 23:24, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

CommentThis is what all my Nikon DSLRs render to moving facial skin at higher ISOs and 1/1000s of shutter speed and it's not further noise reduced in LR. This was the problem with the D3, the D4 and is with my D850 now. This is from the beginning of the second half where I still had the camera set to RAW (took the important images during the half-time interviews for TV) and the outcome after adding not too much NR. I personally prefer to keep the details in favour to NR, but my Nikons don't render details very well under the given circumstances. Shooting non-moving objects under the same circumstances works way better and I do really like that luma noise of the D850 (this is ISO 7200, not downsampled): File:20171028_OEHB_AUT-SRB_Patrekur_Jóhannesson_850_3154.jpg. --Granada (talk) 08:44, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

- Comment Addendum: also Canon renders action this way: File:Pavel_Horak_01.jpg (the same player in 2010 :). --Granada (talk) 09:46, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw my nominationThis will never get enough votes. --Granada (talk) 12:52, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 15:03, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]