Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Force India VJM08

Force India VJM08 / Nico Hülkenberg at 2015 Japanese Grand Prix

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Feb 2016 at 11:19:56 (UTC)

Reason: As far as I can see, there is so far only one FP for Formula One. Over the past year, I was able to accumulate pictures of almost every Grand Prix, and I believe this is the most beautiful one. I especially enjoy the colors, which stands out very much, particularly how the orange banded tyres work with the color scheme of the rest of the car.
Articles in which this image appears: Force India VJM08, 2015 Japanese Grand Prix
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Sport
Creator: Keisuke Kariya (Flickr)

Support as nominator – Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:19, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Not being conversant in F1, I can't judge significance, but pic certainly captures speed, and detail at full res is pretty good, if perhaps not 100 percent. (Tight crop at rear, likely to be noticed by some, is not a prob, IMO.) Sca (talk) 15:01, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Sca: It is certainly not a majorly significant car in the history of F1, but considering the current lack of F1 FPs, I'd say it would be a good thing to have another one. I am thinking about then using it as a possible infobox photo for Formula One car. Zwerg Nase (talk) 15:52, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose I want to like it as I am a fan of F1, but what is in focus is grainy, and there are many parts of the machine that are out of focus. I am not saying I can do better, but the bar is high in terms of action shots, and this doesn't quite meet that. FYI the orange banding on the tyres denotes the conditions and therefore tyre choice, rather than matching the car, in case anyone thinks otherwise... gazhiley 16:45, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Gazhiley: I know, but I feel that it still matches the Force India very well here. It is really hard to find F1 shots that are completely in focus... I chose this one because the other ones from the Grand Prix suffered from this even more so. Zwerg Nase (talk) 17:14, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

While it may be the best of the options, car action shots are able to be better, looking at the selection we have passed through this process. Sorry. gazhiley 12:22, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per gazhiley. Also I think it's a little under exposed. As an F1 fan I'm pretty familiar with action shots like this and the bar is pretty high. - Wolftick (talk) 20:10, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It's a decent photo, indeed, one that I would be extremely proud of. However, it has minimal EV, and it is not as sharp as would be desired. The tight crop is also detrimental to the overall appearance. Harrias ^talk 22:04, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Harrias:@Wolftick: I am no expert in photos, but it seems to me that the extreme high resolution of the photo works against it here. Would I only supply it in the minimal expected resolution of 1500px, the lack of sharpness would probably not be noticeable? Zwerg Nase (talk) 23:47, 2 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Zwerg Nase: I would always prefer the larger image and realise that downsampling images can be superficially beneficial to image quality at the expense of discarding information. I try to take this into account, saving the image then properly resizing/sampling it if I think it would help. It's a very good, valuable image but I just don't think it is quite there overall for FP. As mentioned the bar for actions shots in general is very high. - Wolftick (talk) 02:28, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Per other – Jobas (talk) 13:33, 4 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]