Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Livesteam

Live Steam locomotive

A Live Steam locomotive, built in 14,000 hobby hours

Self-nominated, appears in Live steam article.

The photo shows the awesome power of a 1:8 scale hobby-built locomotive.

(Note: I've adjusted contrast & brightness on a Mac, which has a different gamma from most PC displays. This can be adjusted if necessary. Also, it could be cropped closer for a more dramatic effect. Suggestions, please!)

Nominate and support. - Janke | Talk 11:46, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral That's quite nice, but the 'passanger' spoils the picture to me. Not enough to object... but enough not to support.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 02:04, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Ah, but without the passenger it would be just an ordinary locomotive, right? These miniatures are works of art - I do have a close-up of just the engine, but that's almost indistinguishable from the "real thing", so such a picture wouldn't be "special"... --Janke | Talk 18:11, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Well, can you link the 'without the passenger' version to satisfy my curiosity?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 06:08, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

OK, you'll find it, and quite a few more Live Steam locomotive pictures, on my Live Steam website. The closeup I'm talking about is on this sub-page. It is shot from a little too high position to be entirely realistic, though. For a "slightly retouched" photo, putting a 1:8 scale medel loco into a full-size environment, look at this. - too small for a FPC. I think, even though it was fun making it;-) --Janke | Talk 11:38, 26 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Resolution is a bit low, but I'll still support. I think the passanger gives it scale. --Gmaxwell 04:55, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- TomStar81 20:12, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral. It may be an interesting subject, but the photo itself isn't of a sufficiently high standard. The image lacks clarity, especially in the foliage, and the patch of sky on the top left is horribly over-exposed. Enochlau 06:25, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- I changed my mind. The quality is actually pretty bad. Oppose. Enochlau 22:56, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Thumbnail nice, fullsize bad. Qualitywise not FP material. --Dschwen 12:27, 24 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Unfortunately, I had only a 2 megapixel camera at my disposal on the occasion (several years ago) - this explains the low quality. It does look sharper in sizes below 800px or so, but I assume that is too small for a FPC? --Janke | Talk 13:44, 25 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose a bit boring and just a snapshot; the valve gear is obscured by smoke, the background is far too green and there's a tree in the way. There are much better pictures, sorry. Might make portal:trains FP though. — Dunc|☺ 14:24, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Boring image. The hobby it illustrates is rather obscure and boring too.-- --(User | Talk | Contribs) 22:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Not promoted Broken S 02:33, 4 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]