Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

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Original - Miley Cyrus at the premiere for Hannah Montana: The Movie in April 2009.

Alternate version provided by Jjron with crop, levels and curves adjustment, as well as minor sharpening.

Reason: This is the first FP nomination of several celebrity images I have received OTRS permission for in the last few years. It is a quality headshot of the actress/singer and an edited alternate created by Jjron has also been included if a landscape or portrait is preferred.
Articles in which this image appears: Miley Cyrus
Hannah Montana: The Movie
FP category for this image: People - Entertainment
Creator: Angela George

Support as nominator --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:36, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose ~~both images. Both cut off at the top, plus one cuts off at the sides. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 00:41, 12 July 2010 (UTC)~~ Neutral. That comment made me change my mind. I'm about 50-50 on this now, so I'll just vote neutral. The Utahraptor ^Talk/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 00:51, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I considered that before nominating but saw the passing of File:MARTAKIS1.jpg which has a similar pose and crop. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 00:43, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Conditionally Oppose A very popular person with high technical standard photographs, most likely with more to come.

I don't want Wikipedia to become a news chat. Can we put a date on when she is important, and feature her on that day? Gut Monk (talk) 01:20, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps on February 30, 2011. Greg L (talk) 02:42, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose The lighting here doesn’t remotely look like the best available portraiture lighting. The shadow across her forehead is clearly from a direct-on strobe rather than an umbrella light, which would always be used for any high quality portrait, like this one of Kyndra Miller Rotunda. This image of Miley Cyrus is the stuff one would expect of a Nickelodeon red-carpet photo-op where paparazzi shout out her name (“Ms. Girl On School Backpack… Ms. Girl On School Backpack!”) Greg L (talk) 01:37, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment That would be an effective way to get her to face the camera. As this image was taken at a red-carpet premiere, we wouldn't expect to see the same lighting as in the studio setting for the Martakis or Rotunda images. For similar comparisons on lighting it seems to compare to File:George Clooney 66ème Festival de Venise (Mostra) 3Alt1.jpg or File:Peter Levy BBC.jpg. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 03:07, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Understood. But, clearly, runway photos are a dime a dozen. The George Clooney runway shot looks like a runway shot (IMHO). And, as runway shots go (“George! Over here! Over here!”), his is pretty good. And the man’s face is a study in “distinguished character” (good thing I’m straight). But I would argue that if one is going to have a picture packed edge to edge and stem to stern with face, as was done here, then it takes on a portrait-like nature. In such a genre, it ought to act the part and look really, really nice if it is to purportedly represent our best work. We shouldn’t have to say “This was actually a runway shot, so… ‘pretty good’… right?”
BTW, I think the Peter Levy picture is crap-poor, was framed to catch overlying UFOs (or to add EV to our “Forehead” article), and never should have garnered FP-status in the first place. With five “supports”, one “oppose”, one “Weak oppose”, and one “neutral”, it sorta squeaked through. That this picture “sucks less” than Peter Levy’s is not a reason I would vote for it. Greg L (talk) 04:11, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Do not like the lighting. — raeky ^{(talk | edits)} 05:18, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral on original, oppose crop. The lighting's pretty blah but the quality is good. It's rare to get a picture of Miley Cyrus looking squarely at the camera, but it's bound to happen again. Considering how many pictures of people are in this world, we should have the best of the best. Amphy (talk) 06:29, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support (and that's very weak) original, but strongly oppose crop. I think it's just there, shame about the cut off forhead. The lighting isn't ideal, but it isn't terrible. J Milburn (talk) 10:05, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support due to cutoff forehead, but otherwise good photo of notable subject. Spikebrennan (talk) 16:39, 13 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Framing is too tight. Good portraits do sometimes cut off a body part, but this is too much IMO. Fletcher (talk) 00:13, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support disagree, the framing is absolutely fine. Light is good too. The crop on the alternate is crap though. --Dschwen 16:13, 14 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Crappy crop --Muhammad(talk) 18:30, 15 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support alt only. --jjron (talk) 10:33, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Original only, per above. Cowtowner (talk) 17:31, 17 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, but cutting off the top of her head just looks awkward. The Martakis one has a hair style that makes such a crop look much better; here, it just looks like the photographer aimed too low. Pity: It's otherwise a very good image. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 22:14, 18 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Looks like a textbook rule-of-thirds composition to me. --Dschwen 16:00, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Poor lighting on original. I actually think the framing is fine for this type of shot, although her bad posture doesn't help the shot composition. With this subject far better pictures will be available. The crop is very poor though.Jfitch (talk) 15:13, 20 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:06, 21 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]