Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/USS Iowa broadside

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[edit] USS Iowa (BB-61) firing a broadside

USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico ( 21° N 65° W). Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.
USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico ( 21° N 65° W). Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil.
Reason
Image is moderately encyclopedic, but suffers numerous issues: entire picture is out of focus, burnt highlights throughout the explosions and waves, image has very strong contast (compare shadows to highlights on the deck), the edges of the explosions show strange artefacts (either film grain or compression artefacts), etc. This image, apparently taken on the same occasion, shows the boat in far more detail (although it does have its own issues, addressed its own FPC), and its not as if the image is unrepeatable (the US Navy carries out firing practice fairly often, so other images must exist). Laïka 19:06, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
Nominator
Laïka
  • Delist — Laïka 19:06, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep This is not the kind of subject you can set up in a portrait studio; the image has to be taken of a moving ship from a moving helicopter or plane, and have you seen how much a battleship recoils after firing its guns? As noted on another nom recently, any picture could in theory be better, but as it is, this image represents wikipedia's very best work, is highly encyclopedic, and is an awesome image visually. For me, the technical details are good enough. If a better image comes along, of course this can be replaced. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 01:42, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Delist. The detail is really just unacceptable. The much better image is already featured (right?) --ffroth 04:43, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
    • Actually, its FPC failed. Ironically, one of the main objections was lack of detail and sharpness, although that image was more detailed than this one. Laïka 11:21, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
      • Hah! It was 4 months ago renominate --ffroth 02:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep I think it is a spectacular image. It fails on many technical fronts at full size, but the uniqueness of the angle and its thumbnail draw is great. Almost assured to raise interest in the article. An f8 and be there image, in my view. Cheers, Ryo 14:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per Ryo.--Mbz1 (talk) 18:14, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep - Per above. 8thstar 20:05, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Keep more than any other battleship photo of the 1980s this image captures the sheer power of the Iowa class. This is iconic: in every battleship book ever published this image has always been the flagship image for the reactivated Iowas. There is no reason to delist it; even my FPC nom didn't convey the information like this one does. TomStar81 (Talk) 08:35, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep per above arguments. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-11-22 20:17Z

Kept MER-C 04:47, 24 November 2007 (UTC)