Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/JohnDaly

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[edit] John Daly

John Daly during the 2005 American Express Gold Championships at Harding Park in San Francisco, Ca.

Heavy cropping and slight shadow lifting to decrease contrast in the image and show shadow detail

I am nominating this picture because I feel that it exemplifies not only John Daly and golf, but also the level of fitness (or lack thereof) required to play; This appears in the John Daly and the golf article and was taken by me.

• Nominate and support. - Banpei 06:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose both. Unbalanced composition, too much sky, thus less encyclopedic. I don't think the new version is FP worthy, either... --Janke | Talk 06:56, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per Janke, too much sky makes it not FP quality and makes it poorer quality. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 06:58, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose per above - but this isn't something that a little cropping can't fix. --Red Penguin 07:03, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• I've just uploaded a cropped version, Image:John Daly at AmEx edit.png. I'm not the best graphics editor, so I may still be a bit off, but I trimmed a bit of the sky away. Vote/recommendation retracted --Red Penguin 07:16, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

• Neutral. I was thinking more along the lines of this crop (shown second on the right) that I have just uploaded. The composition is improved and you don't really lose anything of interest from the scenery. The focus is SUPPOSED to be the golfer. I have also lifted the shadows SLIGHTLY to decrease the contrast of the image as the sunlight is quite harsh (the highlights are blown and cannot be recovered however). Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 12:29, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose I agree completely with Janke, though the second cropped image is much better than the first. Alvinrune ^TALK 02:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose ack Janke Calderwood 11:58, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support The second (cropped) pic is excellent - Adrian Pingstone 17:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
• Oppose - I'm sorry but that disgusting fat gut just grosses me out. Its like that giant bellybutton is some menacing cyclopean force just staring me down. shudder.--Deglr6328 08:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Comment So are you opposing *simply* because the subject of the image 'grosses you out' without any regard to the technical composition of the 'photo? Nippoo 17:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I am opposing because I ALSO find the image technically unrenarkable and otherwise roundly uninteresting.--Deglr6328 06:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

• Weak support #2 cropped version. I also find the picture somewhat un-pretty, but I'm surprised to find this guy is a professional sportsman. We don't have enough good GFDL pictures of reasonably famous people. This is a weakly contested subject area, so despite misgivings, support. -- Solipsist 09:32, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support Second version. I think the skyspace actually makes the picture cooler, making the golf ball look even smaller. My only complaint is that his face, the key factor for showing what a famous person looks like, is very shadowy. Staxringold 20:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support second version. Excellent quality, illustrative. Unusual to get such a good PD image of a famous person. Plus, it gives hope to fat men everywhere that they too may become rich and famous and featured in Wikipedia. Johntex\^talk 04:10, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support The 2nd picture is great. Really makes you stop and examine his golf game. How does he get away with it? Canuck89 01:40, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
• Support second version. - Bevo 16:50, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Not promoted howcheng {chat} 17:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)