Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Abū l-Hasan Banīsadr IMG 2044 edit.jpg

Abolhassan Banisadr

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Aug 2015 at 12:10:24 (UTC)

Reason: HQ + EV
Articles in which this image appears: Abolhassan Banisadr
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political
Creator: Christoph Braun

Support as nominator – Alborzagros (talk) 12:10, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~ Oppose – Thirty-five years ago Mr. Banīsadr was president for 16 months. Since then he's lived the émigré life in France. Pic is five years old. Sca (talk) 13:24, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Rainbow unicorn (talk) 20:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Might benefit from just slightly tighter cropping. 109.153.226.6 (talk) 21:09, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 18:33, 28 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kasir ^talk 09:19, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Farshid . Talk 14:55, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose ISO rating is 3,200 ! It is absolutely unnecessary and unacceptable for a studio portrait. You can see in the result large view: very noisy (extreme noise hardly let recognize the face is unsharp and only hair is on focus). Poor quality. Monfie (talk) 16:14, 29 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are spliting hairs. The quality is enough and that is not too noisy to say.Alborzagros (talk) 07:04, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose smudged details, lacking sharpness... perhaps it would fulfil criteria for Quality Image, but not Featured. SkywalkerPL (talk) 21:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Gire 3pich2005 (talk) 14:10, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 15:53, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Monfie. The very high ISO setting is an inexplicable major technical error (even people who are new to high-end photography know not to do this, especially as there's no reason to do so with when using an excellent camera such as the Canon EOS 5D Mark II in a studio), and renders the photo blury at anything less than thumbnail size. As there's no offsetting strong EV (the photo shows Mr Banisadr 30 years after the end of his presidency, and 20 years after his book was published) the FP criteria clearly aren't met. Nick-D (talk) 10:38, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I largely agree with you about the image quality, but I don't think this was taken in a studio. It was taken with a 300mm lens and 1/200th of a second at ISO 3200. Anything ISO significantly less than that would probably result in camera shake. My guess is that it was taken from a press gallery or something like that, as the file description says it was taken at the University of Hamburg. The EXIF data says subject distance of 6 metres. That's definitely not a studio environment. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 23:06, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thank you for that correction Diliff. The photographer certainly deserves full marks for composition in that case, but the image quality isn't of FP standard. Nick-D (talk) 23:11, 1 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Even if it is not in studio, it is nighter in dark cave with no flash restriction nor a high speed motorcycle which justify ISO set to more than 100.Monfie (talk) 08:04, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Having used a 60D for the past 2 years, I am impressed by the noise handling of the 5D at 3200. I'd have denoised a bit and downsampled, but the quality is there. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:34, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I can tell you, that's not the native output of a 5D Mk ii at ISO 3200. Definitely there's some strong noise reduction applied in post-processing (the skin texture is a bit plasticy), but yes even so, the noise levels are much less than with a crop sensor. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 13:48, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --World Cup 2010 (talk) 05:10, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Abū l-Hasan Banīsadr IMG 2044 edit.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:14, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The image has 69.23% support, which is enough for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:14, 2 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]