Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Angela Merkel Juli 2010 - 3zu4.jpg

Merkel-Raute[edit]

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Reason: High EV and reasonable quality
Articles in which this image appears: Merkel-Raute, Angela Merkel
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Armin Linnartz on Flickr

Support as nominator – Nikhil (talk) 05:36, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose. It's an interesting subject but the image itself is a bit lacking. The skin tones are not particularly pleasing and the image is not particularly sharp or high resolution. Not a portrait that stands out for me. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:18, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I knew the image is a bit lacking, but I felt the high EV was enough to overlook any technical deficiencies. Nikhil (talk) 06:04, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment — Have we had this one before? Looks familiar. Sca (talk) 15:54, 19 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: White balance seems rather off; likely from over-correction of the original. (I also note the removal of the background line.) I didn't know we had an article on Merkel's hand gesture though. Reminds me of the Merkel superglue meme. --Paul_012 (talk) 20:28, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- I've been bold and fixed the white balance problem. It serves to fix the blue background and the sickly skin tones, I'm not sure if it's enough for me to support it though. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 20:45, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support I was leaning oppose considering that the quality wasn't good. But the EV on this is great. I never knew they even had an article on this. Personally, the EV overshadows everything else. Étienne Dolet (talk) 22:34, 22 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - ~~Much too cool~~. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:39, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Still? Are you seeing the older cached version or the current one? I adjusted the WB so that the background was near enough neutral grey, but it does still look slightly cool. I just guessed that the background was not colour tinted and it seemed to work ok. The white shirt underneath the red cardigan looks fairly correct, as does her buttons. Her skin tones are not ideal, but acceptable for me. In any case, I don't think it's going to pass, but wanted to double check you were looking at the right version. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Looks like it was the cache, sorry. That being said, it appears that the focus was missed on her face, so my !vote likely won't change. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 12:34, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for focus. Becky Sayles (talk) 14:44, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:54, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]