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Lima Lima Flight Team

Original - Lima Lima Flight team performing at Thunder over Louisville. Thunder opens a two week celebration which ends with the Kentucky Derby, on the first Saturday in May.

Reason: Taken from PPR while archiving - I said a couple of weeks back that I would nominate it pending other opinions, but none were forthcoming. For mine quality looks good, but not overly sold on composition. Will let others judge. Original PPR nom: Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Lima Lima.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: Lima Lima Flight Team
Creator: JMSchneid

Weak Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 13:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Sharpness is lacking, this is probably due to the length of exposure, although the longer exposure has allowed motion blur in the props which is positive. More problematically composition is vertically very cramped, especially on the lower plane/smoke trail, I feel that removing this plane would add to the picture but sacrifice enc. - Flying Freddy (talk) 13:04, 8 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support as creator --JMSchneid (talk) 01:10, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too much blur. Although a difficult image to shoot, far from impossible to have a higher quality shot. Seddσn ^talk 02:30, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Resolution trumps sharpness. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:27, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The statement "resolution trumps sharpness" is one I must point out to be a fallacy. A 10 mp blurry out of focus image is in no way better than a 3 mp well-focused, sharp image of the same thing. Resolution does not trump sharpness at all. The purpose of higher resolution is to allow for and contribute to image sharpness/detail. Spiral5800 (talk) 14:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - We've had approximately one hundred thousand discussions here over whether images that will be perfectly sharp if downsampled to minimum size (generally, 1000px in larger dimension), should indeed be downsampled, and the discussions have shown marginal consensus in favour of *not* downsampling to fix sharpness issues, in accordance with "avoiding unnecessary digital manipulation". Downsampling is destructive editing, and thus to be avoided. Good day! Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:42, 13 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Just too many minor faults, per comments above. A crop from the right seems to help the lack of headroom, but it's not enough to mitigate the rest. --mikaul^talk 12:47, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor IQ --Fir0002 12:49, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Seems pretty smart to me ;-) --Muhammad(talk) 19:58, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The zoom is a great feature to provide a close, high resolution shot of the planes, but a slightly shorter exposure would be best to remove the blur on the planes themselves. The framing of the shot would be perfect if shot in a portrait style rotation. Ard0^{(Talk - Contribs)} 01:46, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --wadester 16 16:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]