Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Selcuk woman.JPG

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[edit] An elderly Turkish woman

Original
Original
Reason
I like the woman's traditional Islamic/Turkish dress, and the fact that she is looking directly at the camera. I also think the photograph is lined up well.
Proposed caption
A woman wearing traditional Islamic dress in Selçuk, Turkey
Articles this image appears in
Hijab, Culture of Turkey
Creator
Kitkatcrazy
  • Support as nominator Kitkatcrazy 20:10, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. I really like the photo (it has soul--her expression is great), but it has technical issues at full size which I think would prevent it from FP status. I see grain and/or JPEG compression artifacts, especially at her ankles and beneath the bench, and much of the photo is unsharp (possibly out of focus, as the aperture and focal length are rather large, and the area around her knees appears sharper). I saw you took this with a Fuji Finepix S5600; the quality guidelines here, while silly for full-screen viewing and small prints, make it hard for a camera with such a small sensor to get FP status without full, bright sunlight or some serious editing. (Though I wonder how this would fare?) That said, encyclopedic value is a different matter than artistic value, and this definitely has the latter. Thanks for submitting! --Peter 22:01, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong support In my opinion encyclopedic value should matter much more than artistic value does. Besides Featured picture criteria specify that "An image's encyclopedic value is given priority over its artistic value." --Mbz1 23:06, 28 July 2007 (UTC)Mbz1
    • Agreed, hence my opposition. As I said, it has great artistic value; it's the technical issues that detract. --Peter 00:09, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Peter. SingCal 23:36, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose Photo is just a picture of a Turkish woman, nothing special about it. Cheers, JetLover (talk) 02:32, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Face is just out of focus. 129.215.191.74 03:11, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Oppose Close, but the lighting (?) gives the colours a weird pasty look. True we haven't that many portrait FP's, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't strive for excellence in portraits --Fir0002 07:53, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

  • Comment Perhaps a closeup of her face and religious headcover/hijab would be better. It would also be a very nice complement to the article Turkish people. Chris.B 10:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Fir0002. The subject matter of the portrait is potentially FP-worthy, but the colors seem a bit off and there are focus problems as noted above. Spikebrennan 14:47, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 05:51, 4 August 2007 (UTC)