Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/STS-116spacewalk

STS-116 Spacewalk

Backdropped by a colorful Earth, astronaut Robert L. Curbeam, Jr. (left) and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Christer Fuglesang, both STS-116 mission specialists, participate in the mission's first of three planned sessions of extravehicular activity (EVA) as construction resumes on the International Space Station. The landmasses depicted are the South Island (left) and North Island (right) of New Zealand.

I saw this image on the main page and instantly thought it should be a featured picture. It is very large (3032x2000), showing a lot of detail, and it is very pleasing to the eye in my opinion. The only negative I can see is that there are some blown highlights, but they aren't distracting to the subject. It is one of the best pictures from a Space Shuttle mission in recent years in my opinion. It is on the STS-116 page.

• Nominate and support. - Imaninjapirate^{talk to me} 22:46, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• support - In my country, we say, picture like this - very nice! Debivort 01:50, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• support - This is an awesome picture. Visually appealing, high quality/resolution and free. Jaksmata 02:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support - Beautiful, high quality, and only blown areas have minimal visual interest anyway. --Dgies 02:53, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support - Per nom and above comments - I suspect it's probably almost impossible to avoid blown highlights when most things are white and you're in direct, unobstructed sunlight. Composition & subject matter are interesting and encyclopaedic. --YFB ¿ 03:01, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support The very embodyment of a FP. Strong encyclopedic value and it's quite large/detailed. --S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 04:07, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support An attractive photo-- certain there aren't many like this one! Reasonably encyclopedic and very illustrative of several subjects. Jellocube27 05:28, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support A lot better than some of the other ones. BTW is that New Zealand in the background?Ok, never mind... Should have read the caption --antilived ^{T | C | G} 06:59, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment There is a noticable black outline around the leftmost astronaut. What might cause this? Just looked strange on first sight. Pstuart84 Talk 12:22, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • It's an artifact from bluescreening at the sound stage, lol. --Dgies 16:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Thats strange, there's no trace of a black line, on my (CRT) monitor, even on the largest version! - Adrian Pingstone 17:07, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • Admittedly I'm on a laptop, but it's there when I zoom in on the jpg in photo editor. It's as though someone's drawn a black outline round the left side of the leftmost astronaut. It may be perfectly explicable of course. Pstuart84 Talk 17:41, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
  • The black outline is very clear at 1600X in Photoshop BellCurve (UTC)
• Support very nice photograph and I love how it includes the country I love best, New Zealand. A newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand (seen in photograph), The Press, is selling prints of this photograph at $20.00 each. Nzgabriel 21:18, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support Great picture of Astronaut, and attractive photo. Daniel5127 <Talk> 22:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• Comment Are we going to nominate every good space picture we get? I'm not sure how much better this illustrates astronaut or EVA than Image:Astronaut-EVA.jpg, an existing FP. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 00:46, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
  • That one is very grainy, does not depict any activity in the EVA, and shoes not show good ground detail. --Dgies 04:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support Not many people can get a picture of that, and it's amazing with the blue background.--¿Why1991 ^{ESP. | Sign Here} 03:53, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support Hey, I can see where my town would be! It's just too high up. The Earth is in great detail - and the second my friends and family saw it they liked it too. Bastetmeow
• Comment About that black-line astronaut on the left.. the sun is reflected in his visor; you can see it's to the upper left behind the photographer. If it's there, why would there be a huge dark shadow next to him in the structure they're working on? --froth^{T C} 19:36, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
  • The curvature of the visor has distorted the apparent position of the sun. It is not behind the photographer – otherwise the front of the astronaut would be illuminated instead of being in shadow as you see. The sun’s reflection is very high and close to the edge of the spherical visor; that, together with the fact that the astronaut’s right side and back are illuminated, indicate that the sun is above, slightly left, and in front of the photographer. I can see how this would fuel those blue-screen conspiracy theories, though! ;-) Jaksmata 19:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support Great quality image of a unique encyclopedic event. Hello32020 21:52, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
• Support: High enc. sign here — s d 3 1 4 1 5 13:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
• Definite Support Truly spectacular photograph! Wikipediarules2221 02:28, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Promoted Image:STS-116 spacewalk 1.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 15:16, 26 December 2006 (UTC)