Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Hou Yifan

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 9 Jan 2019 at 14:24:54 (UTC)

Original – Hou Yifan, chess prodigy.

Reason: The size is massive, so the fact that it's somewhat grainy at full resolution isn't much of an issue: A slight downscale, [1], say, would show it still has loads of quality to it. I like the action pose. It's an excellent photo of the highest-ranking female chess player in the world.
Articles in which this image appears: Hou Yifan
FP category for this image: Either Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Sport or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator: Andreas Kontokanis

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 14:24, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I love the game -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 16:56, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's a shame about the glare on her glasses, but it would have been unavoidable and this is otherwise an excellent portrait. The EV is very strong. Nick-D (talk) 23:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Agreed. Photographing someone at a tournament has advantages and disadvantages. The great atmosphere and poses are advantages, but things like the glare... Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs} 23:17, 27 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - The trade-off seems worthwhile here: the fact that the photo depicts the subject playing chess at a tournament (the reason for her notability) more than offsets the glare issue. Nick-D (talk) 04:03, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I uploaded a slightly denoised version. The image was shot at ISO 1250, the noise/grain showed at full size, especially the white parts of the eyeballs were distracting. The denoise radius is 1 pixel so effectively no loss in details. Bammesk (talk) 00:47, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I would like to support this, but I find the lens flares to be too distracting. MER-C 05:02, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

If you mean the bright circles to the left of her face, this image [2] shows more of them, and these images [3], [4] show what they are. Being part of the bokeh and not too bright, I am Ok with it, given the EV. Bammesk (talk) 15:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That should make it easier to perform a selective darkening. I don't care if it is removed completely, it just needs to be darkened enough to not be distracting. MER-C 05:43, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think any of the participants would mind if you make the change and upload on top of the existing file, or as separate file. Bammesk (talk) 16:24, 30 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Still a little distracting, but definitely better. Support. Revert if unwanted. MER-C 08:06, 2 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – Black is tough to photograph, but her hair looks rather inky. Sca (talk) 22:02, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It is grainy and I find the glasses distracting. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:54, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Hou Yifan (29762728494) (cropped).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:48, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]