Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/CalnePigs

Calne[edit]

**Original** - Bronze sculpture in Calne celebrating the town's best-known industry

Reason: This image illustrates and memorialises the most important industry in the small Wiltshire town of Calne, i.e. bacon production; I think it is well-composed and lit, and has good colour-balance; in particular, the highlight on the tiling behind the mother pig emphasises the sculpture to good effect. I'm not a professional photographer, probably not even a good one, but I like to think this is amongst my best work. Taken with Canon Sureshot Zoom XL.
Articles this image appears in: Calne
Creator: Rodhullandemu

Support as nominator --Rodhull andemu 00:25, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Hello, here are some of my "inspections" (analysis):
- Improper lighting The lighting isn't equal, which makes the reflections behind the pig bothersome. The pig is also too dark to distinguish the details of it. The corners are dark as well, which contributes to improper lighting.
- Tilted Somehow the image appears to be tilted to the left. It annoys me seeing it like that. The tiles to the right-top corner also contributes to this conflict.
- Composition not good The posture and composition isn't good either. There is more left than there is right. Perhaps the photographer could have moved along to the right a bit more to center the subject. It could have been better if the photographer took the picture at a higher altitude to prevent unwanted bothersome background (extra tiles, wall, etc.)

This has good value and recommend nominating at Valued Picture if consensus is to not promote. Zoo Fari 02:09, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; I'm not up with the grammar of photography, and the lighting is what was there at the time, but "Valued Picture"? I've never seen an analogue of a WP:GA for images. --Rodhull andemu 02:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Valued Pictures is a project similar to Featured pics, but focuses more on value for its articles than quality. You can nominate here. Note: The image must be in an article for atleast 1 month.

Oppose I'm unconvinced of its encyclopedic value. It shows a sculpture, not the town; the sculpture could be representative of any bacon-loving town. Fletcher (talk) 23:52, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not loving; producing. How many bacon-loving-towns are there? My count is 12,417. Bacon--producing; much fewer. --Rodhull andemu 00:21, 4 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 01:42, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]