Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Laser

Laser

A military scientist operates a laser in a test environment. The Directorate conducts research on a variety of solid-state and chemical lasers.

COMPARE to this image (not for voting), cleaned up version, if someone could clean up the nom a bit like this than maybe.

Reason

Looks Cool

Articles this image appears in

Laser, Photon, Eye protection, Applied physics

Creator

United States Air Force

• Support as nominator — TomStar81 (Talk) 08:48, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose as per previous nom, great enc and subject matter, average-to-poor photo. mikaul^talk 14:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
• Oppose, for now needs to be cleaned-up. There is a lot of data there to work with. --Cody.Pope 16:14, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

The version uploaded here is missing the exif data and is smaller than the original on the airforce website Bleh999 18:52, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, yeah, I wasn't suggesting the image I uploaded as a featured pictured, but we often use down-sampling to fix grain and such, especially given the nominated image's size. It was just a for instance type image, that's all. --Cody.Pope 09:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Not promoted MER-C 03:13, 8 June 2007 (UTC)