Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sikh man, Agra

Sikh man, Agra

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 20 May 2015 at 21:51:09 (UTC)

Reason: high quality picture used in 3 articles
Articles in which this image appears: Sikh, Dastar, Kesh (Sikhism)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Traditional dress
Creator: Yann

Support as nominator – Yann (talk) 21:51, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'd considered nominating this myself... at thumb it's very good, but something about the beard seems discordant at full size. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:56, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Could you please explain what you find "discordant"? Thanks, Yann (talk) 09:46, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'd go with blurry - almost as if it was moving at the time... Almost what I'd expect to see from a 3D picture, if I wasn't wearing 3D glasses... gazhiley 11:27, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - That's... a very, very good explanation. Yes, exactly what Gazhiley said. It's as if we're looking at 3D pictures without 3D glasses. I don't know how that effect occurs, but that's what it feels like when I look at the beard at full resolution. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:40, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - Maybe it has to do with the drastic and very apparent shift in DOF, and how it interacts with the very fine details of his beard (the individual strands going from sharp, to blurry, to merging together...) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - Honestly, this looks a minor issue. It didn't notice this before. Does it prevent this picture for being FP, or could it be fixed? Regards, Yann (talk) 16:41, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Others may not care. I won't oppose over it... but I can't really support either. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:39, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        Unfortunately Yann the focus of this voting process on locating and displaying Wikipedia's finest work means that yes, that sort of issue would/will probably prevent this achieving enough supports to become a Featured Picture... As regards fixing it, I would say from my (largely uneducated) knowledge of photo editing that this would not be something that could be adjusted - it's an issue created at time of the picture being taken... gazhiley 15:58, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - This image and this one have the same problem, beard area has an offset ghost. I think the ghost is created by an image processing algorithm. Probably the jpeg algorithm. There are certain assumptions that go into these algorithms. HD televisions have similar issues, they cannot handle multiple quick light variations, it is visible in rock concerts at night when the on stage pyrotechnics or light show comes on. Bammesk (talk) 18:03, 17 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:53, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]