Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Henry the Navigator

Henry the Navigator

Original - Monument to the Portuguese maritime discoveries (detail), Lisbon

Edit 1

Edit 2 - to darken sky, lighten and LCE on statue, slight crop from bottom left to avoid clipped leg by Mfield

Reason

Nice. Well sharpened and defined.

Articles this image appears in

Henry the Navigator. Portugal

Creator

Joaquim Alves Gaspar

• Support as nominator --Rj1020 (talk) 03:29, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Support Shows great detail, and the overcast sky is an unobtrusive background.The freddinator (talk) 10:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose - poor lighting - see this for a better lit one from commons - Peripitus (Talk) 12:33, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. Cut off at the left and poorly lit. NauticaShades 13:26, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose. That rotten leg sticking into the picture is... ew! Otoh, I'm not sure how harsh we'd want the lighting to be. Ultimately, for me everything rests on the subject being cut off, which is true of the other image as well. Is it a matter of perilously leaning out of a window to get the full picture? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 15:15, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment. This image shows the entire monument for those unfamiliar with it. Pstuart84 Talk 15:45, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Bad lighting. Clegs (talk) 17:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose Poor coloration, and harsh lighting. Spencer^T♦C 22:09, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Just a nitpick on your comment: if anything this is the opposite of harsh lighting. Harsh lighting is when there is one single bright light source and very little fill light, like (to an extent) the other photo. This one is shot under an overcast sky and pretty much all of it are fill light, there are no distinctive shadows, and is pretty much as soft as you can get. --antilived^{T | C | G} 00:16, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

• Weak support I have no problem with this only showing a detail of the monument; we've got a great look at the interesting part. I wish the sky had just a touch more colour to it, simply to make the picture more pleasant to look at it. I'm also, by the way, not too concerned with the cut off on the left, I just wonder if a slight crop, say over to the next vertical line between the blocks, would help matters. Matt Deres (talk) 02:31, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Support edit 1 or 2, very slight preference to edit 2. Matt Deres (talk) 20:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
• What about this new version, with a little more colour and contrast? Sorry, nothing can be done with the sky and the crop at left doesn't result very well -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:28, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Comment Added Edit 2 to address some of complaints above - cropped tighter on left, darkened sky slightly and lightened statue whilst applying some local contrast enhancement to it. Mfield (talk) 21:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
• Oppose It doesn't truly illustrate either article. Crassic! (talk) 22:23, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Monument should probably have its own article, maybe Alves feels like writing/translating one? Padrão dos Descobrimentos Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 14:15, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 09:21, 30 May 2008 (UTC)