Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Space Shuttle Discovery

Space Shuttle Discovery

Original - The space shuttle Discovery approaches the International Space Station.

Alternative 1 Based on the original upload (not original in this nomination), rotated, colours enhanced with a lighter hand than the previous editor

Reason

High quality, high resolution image which is difficult to obtain and will no longer be possible to obtain of the orbiter in question (retired September 11 this year). This image was previously nominated and no consensus was reached. Issues included it being washed out in the original (since enhanced, complaints then railed against this) and that it was rotated from the original which hurts its EV for rendezvous pitch maneuver, an article which it is no longer part of. In light of this change I think it still has outstanding EV for its current articles.

Articles this image appears in

Space Shuttle Discovery, Space Shuttle orbiter, Timeline of STS-121

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Cowtowner 21:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. Indeed it does have good EV, but the image quality is lacking. It has a lot of patchy chrominance noise. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:52, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per Diliff - looks like overenthusiastic JPEG compression of the chrominance channels to me. The top of the tail is cut off as well, which detracts from EV (though not that much). Time3000 (talk) 16:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Added a new edit based on the original file as per above comments. It uses a less heavy handed approach and has therefore less noise and more realistic though still pleasing colours. With regards to the tail, I think it is excusable as from this angle the tail would add little other than perhaps a sense of its size in relation to the body of the shuttle. --Cowtowner 01:19, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose - bad crop. Cacophony (talk) 05:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I think that the crop is forgivable considering what we are missing--a piece of the tail, which, from this angle, is of no little benefit to the image. Not to mention the conditions this was taken in (I believe this is the original framing)--zero gravity with a lot of billion dollar equipment to worry about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cowtowner (talk • contribs) 22:01, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose per above concerns, but this may be worthy at VPC. ZooFari 01:12, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 05:54, 21 September 2009 (UTC)