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Please cut and paste nominations to be archived from the Picture peer review mainpage to the top of the appropriate archive page, creating a new archive (by nomination date) when necessary.

Original - Syzygium malaccense flower, in Yogyakarta

I think this turned out fairly well, but I'm not sure of the dark background (would be nice if I had a way to give it fill lighting...)

Articles this image appears in
Syzygium malaccense
Creator
Crisco 1492
Suggested by
Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:11, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Original - Panoramic view of the Queen's window (Queen Elanor) in the upper ward of Saint Hilarion Kalesi (Castle).

High resolution and quality. Most of the photos of the Queen's window only show the window itself (e.g., [1] and [2]). This photo puts the window in context. I think that I have taken care of all the stiching errors, but would appreciate another set of eyes, as well as any other feedback. Thanks

Articles this image appears in
Saint Hilarion Castle
Creator
Ira Goldstein
Suggested by
Igoldste (talk) 19:44, 17 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Didn't spot any stitching errors, but the distortion of the stones at left is a bit obvious. My concern is about the lack of EV: I think the picture is good, and it's usually beneficial to have context, but there is only a small mention of the window in the article, and it makes a reference to the great view of the coastline that can be seen from the window. Unfortunately zooming in on that view in this image is of little help because of the haze. Julia\talk 18:43, 23 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Original - Gaika Blue

Best image available.

Articles this image appears in
Zizula hylax
Creator
Jkadavoor (talk)
Suggested by
Jkadavoor (talk) 08:55, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
Seconder


Original - Scottish indie band Belle & Sebastian: (left to right) Mick Cooke, Richard Colburn, Bobby Kildea, Chris Geddes, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin and Stuart Murdoch.

This rather charming photograph displays all seven members of indie rock band Belle & Sebastian. There aren't all too many FP of musical groups (just two, by my count), so I feel that this high quality image would be a good addition. The only problem I can see is the horrible, horrible colour of the backdrop - would it be a sticking point at FPC? Thanks again.

Articles this image appears in
Belle & Sebastian
Creator
Marisa Privitera
Suggested by
A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 21:44, 6 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Original - English-American actor Cary Grant in a publicity still for the 1941 film Suspicion
Edit 1 - Curves adjusted

This large, public domain image of actor Cary Grant reminded me quite a lot of File:Hepburn-afternoon.jpg, which was promoted to FP back in November. It clearly identifies the subject, and appears to be of a high quality. Any reason why it shouldn't be nominated at FPC? Thanks in advance.

Articles this image appears in
Cary Grant
Creator
RKO publicity photographer
Suggested by
A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 21:37, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Original - Carl Van Vechten, noted photographer and writer, in 1935

High quality, good pose. Wondering if the clean-up so far is enough.

Articles this image appears in
Carl Van Vechten
Creator
Carl Van Vechten, edited by User:jjron and User:Crisco 1492
Suggested by
Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:44, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
Seconder


Original - A view of the Millennium Park Bus Depot, Delhi


It's a photograph which shows the world's largest bus station, hence deserves a Featured Picture. However, I have a few doubts because the FPC states that licensing has to be "free", and I'm not very sure whether this photo meets that criteria.

I added a second alternative for pushing to FP status. Which one is more acceptable? ~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 17:37, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Articles this image appears in
Millennium Park Bus Depot
Creator
Ankitbhatt
Suggested by
~*~AnkitBhatt~*~ 05:23, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • I think the licence is fine if it is on commons, however I don't think either image will pass FPC. The second's resolution is too low, so it is automatically excluded. Both need work on the composition. The field of view just seems too narrow. JJ Harrison (talk) 01:20, 26 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Original - cropped version of Guerrillero Heroico - Che Guevara at the funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion.

Extremely iconic image. Not quite sure if the quality is up to par.

Articles this image appears in
Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, and dozens more
Creator
Alberto Korda
Suggested by
Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:25, 19 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Original - International poker player John Juanda

Good quality, fairly sharp. Interesting pose

Articles this image appears in
John Juanda
Creator
Matt Waldron
Suggested by
Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:28, 15 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
Seconder


Original - a suitable caption for the image

Found this image on Flickr whilst trawling for images to improve the KitchenAid article with. Was surprised to find such a high quality image, and I'll freely say that I know next to nothing about the FP process, but thought that this might be suitable.

Articles this image appears in
KitchenAid
Creator
g2boojum on Flickr
Suggested by
Miyagawa (talk) 19:39, 27 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
Seconder


Original - USS Arizona (BB39) Port Bow, Underway, 1930
Alt crop

High EV and good quality, we can also use an alternative crop instead, whichever suits better.

Articles this image appears in
None atm, could be used in USS Arizona (BB-39)
Creator
Unknown
Suggested by
  ■ MMXX  talk  23:55, 26 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Batasia Loop, Darjeeling N.F.Railway, Photograph by Vikramjit Kakati

Picture is very good. I think it has good EV. Please evaluate this and make this a candidate for FPC. Note; I'm not the creator of this Pic. I'm merely submitting it here.

Articles this image appears in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Frontier_Railway_Zone_%28India%29
Creator
Vikramjit Kakati
Suggested by
Vijayrajah (talk) 08:12, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
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Original - Néstor Kirchner

I want to know if there is image noise or some other problem with this file, before actually nominating it

Articles this image appears in
Néstor Kirchner, Presidency of Néstor Kirchner (and others)
Creator
Víctor Hugo Bugge
Suggested by
Cambalachero (talk) 18:22, 14 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Shot at ISO 1000 there may have been some inherent image noise, but the main issue is that it's been overly compressed leading to some pretty visible JPEG artifacting; that's probably mixing with the original noise to make it look disappointing at full res. You can't access a less compressed version can you? --jjron (talk) 17:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • No, this photo was taken from a web page that released their photos under a free licence, I did not take it myself (it is not inside my camera). Do you think I should ask for help at the Photography workshop? If the noise is too much to fix, I may drop the issue, I don't want to bother anyone with impossible tasks Cambalachero (talk) 21:22, 15 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
      • A bit of noise you can often work with, though often with the side effect of losing detail, which is why people will often do a selective noise reduction on the background only where the details aren't important. The problem here is twofold or even threefold. The issue is more artifacting than noise; this means that through excessive compression when this was saved some of the original detail the image would have had has been lost - there is no way you can get this back other than going to back to the original and starting again. The other problem is that it is perhaps most significant on the subject of the image, the man himself (check his suit coat for example); applying any sort of 'correction' to that will therefore remove even more detail, and I have to say that for whatever reason - could be to do with slight focus issue, lower quality lens, difficult lighting, or the ISO and compression settings, or possibly a combination of these and more - I don't think he has a real lot of detail even now, like in terms of the detail on his face, so I don't think it can afford to lose any more. You could get someone to give it a try, but I don't really like the chances of seeing much improvement. Alternatively you could try nomming as is at FPC and just see how it goes. Or email the site if they have contact details and ask if they could provide a higher res version. --jjron (talk) 12:02, 16 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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