Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Clarinet

Clarinet

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Original – A B-flat clarinet with German fingering system (Yamaha model YCL-457II-22).

Reason: A great studio photograph of a clarinet. As part of the project Wiki Loves Music, I have been evaluating many musical instrument pictures on the projects and this recent image donation by the manufacturer is by far one of the best musical instrument images we have.
I understand this image may be too narrow in order to qualify as a featured picture, but clarinets are simply very narrow items.
Articles in which this image appears: clarinet
FP category for this image: Entertainment
Creator: Yamaha Corporation

Support as nominator – Gnom (talk) 17:26, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support based on the unusual shape I think the resolution recommendations should be lifted for the width. It's a very encyclopedic picture. Mattximus (talk) 23:23, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support lNeverCry 23:25, 6 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 00:19, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Why not orient this diagonally? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:28, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi Chris Woodrich, what would be the argument for orienting the clarinet diagonally? Clarinets are usually displayed "standing", but we could also show it at an angle. --Gnom (talk) 10:03, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just my 2 cents, but upright is how the instrument is traditionally played. If it were at an angle it would have to be a picture of the side, which loses EV since you wouldn't see the holes. Just like a trumpet should be shown horizontally. Mattximus (talk) 23:21, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    - It doesn't have to be oriented the way it's played if you are just trying to show the instrument. When we have long, narrow objects like this, it is easier for display on Wikipedia if the object is oriented diagonally. Since this object has no background, a simple rotation should do. For example, this bamboo spear was horizontal in the museum where I took the photograph, but since a 3000px * 300px image barely shows up on Wikipedia, I rotated the image diagonally. The same rationale applies for these Pocky sticks (although these were photographed diagonally).

Another reason is POTD would be unable to do justice to this image. To limit the vertical size of the image (i.e. to avoid overwhelming the main page with a clarinet and thus drawing complaints), it would probably end up looking like Example 1 below. Rotation would look something like Example 2, also below. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:29, 9 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Example of main page rendering

Example of main page rendering (diagonal)

Comment Why the picture is in tiff format? We can't view in window. There is a download option only. Marvellous Spider-Man 10:12, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
- Hi Marvellous Spider-Man, the image was provided to me by Yamaha in the .tiff format. Should we consider converting it to a different format? You can see the full size image here. --Gnom (talk) 13:07, 10 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 06:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Yamaha Clarinet YCL-457II-22.tiff --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:41, 16 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]