Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Aug 2010 at 02:41:31 (UTC)

Reason: This is a high EV image in its article uses and is used in several templates.
Articles in which this image appears: Dwyane Wade
Miami Heat
Conference USA Men's Basketball Player of the Year
2003 NBA Draft
List of 2010–11 NBA season transactions
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Sport
Creator: Keith Allison and edited by User:JoeJohnson2

Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 02:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant oppose Lots of noise at full resolution, and full resolution isn't that big. Pity, because the shot is rather well-timed, albeit a bit tighter cropped than I'd prefer. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- To explain a little: If the image is fairly large and has some noise in a few areas, then, well, you can edit it a bit, and there's so much detail already that the minor loss of detail from the denoise isn't that important, because you still have an "effective" resolution well above the requirements. But at this size, basic facial features and other things inherent to identifying him have lost detail from the noise. That's a bit further than I think we can stretch. Please don't be put off by this comment; remember FPC is meant to be the best of the pictures on Wikipedia, so an image can still be quite good - and this is - but not quite reach the level of "among the best in the subject". For comparison, here's another sports FP, and, as it happens, the one I think of when I think about excellent sports FPs. It's... actually by you, which I hadn't remembered until I looked it up, but... comparing, that one's sharp, dynamic, noise-free, and only has the small amount of motion blur inherent in an action shot. Clearly amongst the best of images related to sports on Wikipedia. This new basketball one... well, it's dynamic, but the rest... not so much. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:53, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This is actually a great little action shot- it's a wonderful photo, but the noise really stops it being FP-worthy. J Milburn (talk) 10:47, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm with J Milburn on this one, but please keep looking; FP has very few sports-action photos (and they can be quite good.) Gut Monk (talk) 23:58, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, I think JoeJohnson2 did more harm than good to this image. --Dschwen 16:33, 27 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed. J Milburn (talk) 11:12, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]