Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Academy graduation and hat toss

Traditional hat toss and flyover at the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Nov 2011 at 01:27:13 (UTC)

Original – Traditional hat toss and flyover at the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy.

Reason: large clear photo, used on multiple pages, good EV
Articles in which this image appears: United States Air Force Academy Cadet Wing, List of United States Air Force Academy alumni, United States Air Force Academy, Graduation
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Culture_and_lifestyle
Creator: Danny Myers

Support as nominator --Pine^talk 01:27, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Oppose Quality issues are horrific! JFitch (talk) 01:56, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- If you're going to oppose, please do so civilly and state your specific reasons. This is an encyclopedia. Pine^talk 05:21, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - He did? The language is in relation to content; there's nothing personal there. Images can be expected to face criticism if brought here. J Milburn (talk) 10:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Saying "Quality issues are horrific!" is less civil and specific than "there are lots of compression artifacts". Pine^talk 10:19, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Lighting is poor, with both under- and overexposure, it's small, there are great amounts of image noise and the focus doesn't seem to be on anything in particular. Add into the mix that it comes across as a little propaganda-y and this really isn't FP material. Sorry. J Milburn (talk) 10:49, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Questionable EV and bad technical quality. There are both blown highlights and severe compression artefacts. Ottojula (talk) 16:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The sharpness has been adjusted or something, it looks like the guys faces are bleeding. Dusty777 (talk) 21:12, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per bleeding faces =/ Nik thestoned 16:58, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There are obvious jpg compression artifacts (easiest to notice around the hats and on skin and white surfaces). If the image was contrasted/sharpened/gamma adjusted after excessive compression, this could have enhanced the color noise, resulting in that "bleeding". It is rather difficult to fix that without having the original (from the camera). I am also worried by the right glove of the guy to the right - not about his "missing" fingers, but the glove edges look weird. Materialscientist (talk) 00:01, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy closed by me, per the several opposing votes. Pine^talk 10:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Pine^talk 22:27, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]