Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/James Dobson

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OriginalJames Dobson, an American evangelical Christian author, psychologist, and founder in 1977 of Focus on the Family.
 
Alt 1 – Cropped and rotated
Reason
Good image, good quality, good resolution
Articles in which this image appears
Christian scholarship, James Dobson
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others
Creator
Focus on the Family
  • Support as nominator --Mediran (tc) 03:28, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Top left corner missing image, something funky happening at the left-side bottom edge. Not sure what's with the dim halo behind his shoulders. Also, very strange composition, almost like the photographer was turning away when someone called "lunch" as he was pressing the shutter; I would normally support a crop, but I think too much of his left shoulder (frame right) is missing; unfortunate. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 05:03, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Clear picture. I think the composition is intentional. TCO (talk) 14:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That still doesn't forgive the glitchy bottom edge and top left corner. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 14:51, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Added an Alt. Cropped out the weird edging via rotation (it looked to me like at some point in its life the image got spun around), took a little off the left side to balance it out. Cowtowner (talk) 16:07, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I saved two versions, one that kept the original profile, and one that I saved with no profile at all. I spent a lot of time flipping between the two trying to determine if I was crazy for thinking it looked minutely different. I honestly can't say for sure (there is slight change in the face between the two?); part of me wants to believe it's an optical illusion because of the slightly-new position of the background gradient. Cowtowner (talk) 17:38, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Looking again, you're right. The no profile one is oranger and the same as the original; the one with the profile added appears to be slightly more flesh-coloured. Oddly, I think it actually looks more natural (happy coincidence?). So, I'm not sure which one others will prefer. And the loss of the edge of the pocket did give the impression of a perspective correction (and left me saying to myself "I know I didn't do that, but I don't think I'm crazy "). Cowtowner (talk) 18:00, 12 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 06:21, 21 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]