Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kebyar duduk

Kebyar duduk

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Original – Kebyar duduk, named for the semi-seated position dancers take, is a Balinese dance form first created by I Mario and performed in 1925. It involves a lone male dancer who takes up mostly seated or half-seated positions, sometimes spinning in circles, and using his body language (especially the eyes) to convey emotion.

Alt – Light removed

Reason

Quite simply put, I think it's brilliant: good technical quality (the little motion blur on the fan can be accepted, as I was shooting at night with stage lighting and he was spinning in circles), shows the costume and position well.

Articles in which this image appears

Kebyar duduk, Gamelan gong kebyar

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Entertainment

Creator

Chris Woodrich

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:14, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support -- Nice shot and the DyK hook. But the spotlight is distracting...The Herald 16:32, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
  • If nobody else minds, I can probably clone it out. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:29, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Yes please - I already let one of those slip by... Hafspajen (talk) 03:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

• Edit added. I still prefer the original. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:33, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

Get rid of the blue reflection that is left over from the removed spotlight, and also the blurry figure in the audience, and the vertical pole. And why not crop the photo to a square? (looks better that way, and horizontal space on Wikipedia is more precious than vertical space, so the narrower the photo the better.) Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 17:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

• Hence why thumbnails are formatted to be horizontal based. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:03, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - Nice one - Bellus Delphina ^talk 02:20, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support - any - prefer alt. His movements are much more clear and elegant without lamp. Hafspajen (talk) 06:28, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support either, preference for edit with removed light. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 17:44, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support alt--Godot13 (talk) 04:03, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support alt Yann (talk) 14:07, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:17 Years of Sekar Jepun 2014-11-01 64 edit.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

• There is a clear consensus that the alt should be promoted. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:38, 2 December 2014 (UTC)