Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Leigh Howard

Leigh Howard (cyclist)

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Original - Leigh Howard, Australian racing cyclist, and now riding for the professional team HTC-Columbia, taken at the start of the 2010 Jayco Bay Cycling Classic. Howard's successes so far include being the 2009 World Champion in the Omnium and the 2010 World Champion in the Madison with partner Cameron Meyer.

Reason: High quality image of an emerging young rider on the world scene at the start of a professional race, Howard has already won two World Track Cycling Championships in two different events. It is a quite relaxed portrait of him in his 'natural setting' and also shows his team kit well. Added well to his previously unillustrated article.
Articles in which this image appears: Leigh Howard, Team HTC-Columbia
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: jjron

Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 17:16, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Seems to have artefacting, particularly noticeable on the forehead; JPEG quality is 93%, might be contributing. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 18:55, 21 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmm, I don't think skin tones are the best place to look for artefacting - FWIW comparing to the original I can't notice anything significantly different on the forehead (BTW, just wondering, where do you get the 93% from?). --jjron (talk) 09:50, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support - A nice photo. Fairly sharp, nice size, good lighting. Composition is lacking a little bit though. I would've liked to see the bike he is sitting on, actually riding the bike would be optimal. Jujutacular ^T · C 07:20, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. A picture of an athlete with a quite brief article, which doesn't show his legs, hands, half head or bike, with nothing especially interesting about its composition, and a bodiless arm protruding on the right. Aside of the sunglasses there's nothing particularly annoying about it, but do we really need to chose this as an FP? --Desiderius82 (talk) 09:09, 22 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- If the subject is notable enough for an article, he is notable enough for a FP, if the quality is high enough. J Milburn (talk) 10:59, 23 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I honestly don't think this shows the best WP has to offer even in the category of photos of athletes, it's a crowded picture with a lot of distracting elements, while cutting off everything below his wrists might have been unavoidable it makes it look akward, and the disembodied elbow on the right of the shot totally throws off where the eye is drawn in my view. Cat-five - talk 02:58, 24 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, as per Cat-five. This is just too crowded. J Milburn (talk) 10:44, 25 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as per Cat five. Fletcher (talk) 23:48, 26 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 01:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]