Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Paul Simonon

Paul Simonon[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 6 May 2011 at 13:48:11 (UTC)

Reason: High quality image with interesting perspective and good use of DOF.
Articles in which this image appears: Paul Simonon
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Rama

Support as nominator --Jujutacular ^talk 13:48, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I prefer the edit, thanks karstn. Just to note, in my opinion the microphone that is slightly in front of his face increases EV. Jujutacular ^talk 17:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Maybe, but as Alt1 shows the photographer was able to get a very good shot at the same event without it. --jjron (talk) 03:38, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - The Alternative is not bad, too. But the quality isn't as good as on the Original, there's a dust spot and I don't really like the smog... --kaʁstn 08:58, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - Yeah, I think the nommed version is better quality, having said which the Alt is featured on Commons. --jjron (talk) 10:08, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support (weak). Not someone I'm familiar with, but very good image. I personally think there's too much headroom though, and suspect the photographer locked on the centre focus point and didn't reframe (thus the cutoff arm at the bottom and excess headroom at top). Would probably change to full support with a bit of a crop (just trying it, I'd probably take it off just above that light on image right). The microphone obscuring part of his face is a slight issue too perhaps. --jjron (talk) 15:10, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Crop some of the top off and then we can talk :P Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:07, 27 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: A good picture but the mike in front of the face is a deal breaker for me. It seems to me that the EV requirement implies that we should expect to see the person's entire face.--RDBury (talk) 16:06, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit Still could have a little more taken off. In terms of the microphone, the man sings for a living, it's not really surprising that he's got a mic in front of him. You could make the case that it increases the EV. Cowtowner (talk) 17:16, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. First thing that struck me on seeing this picture was the line of lights sticking out of his head; very distracting. The depth of field is very poor; the guitar and mike should be in focus. Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 22:18, 28 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I beg to differ. I think the depth of field is actually very well managed. The whole subject is in focus and given the low lighting (requiring shallower focus) at many concerts this is impressive. Also, I think having the guitar and mic in focus could be rather distracting as they'd draw our attention away from Simonon. Finally, a wider depth of field would have made the background lights sharper and likely more distracting. Cowtowner (talk) 03:56, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - "depth of field is very poor; the guitar [...] should be in focus" lol, that's funny. --ka ʁs tn 10:58, 29 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 --ka ʁs tn 08:58, 30 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 or Alt 1 Aaadddaaammm (talk) 12:23, 4 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. I've been thinking about this one for a while. As a portrait I think it's successful. I'm not really sure about the alt: it seems kind of over-dramatic, unless that's what this guy is actually like (I'd never heard of him before this nomination, so I don't know). Chick Bowen 15:33, 5 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1: Very good portrait. Don't like the Alt, wrong expression. Maedin\^talk 06:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Paul Simonon mg 6692 crop.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 15:15, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]