Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Minerva bowl

Minerva bowl

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Aug 2012 at 14:53:07 (UTC)

Original – The gilt bowl from Hildesheim Treasure, depicting Minerva. The bowl is 25 cm in diameter and 7.1 cm in depth, with two handles being 3.4 cm long.

Reason

One of the exquisite pieces from Hildesheim Treasure and a good example of ancient applied arts.

Articles in which this image appears

Hildesheim Treasure, Minerva, others

FP category for this image

Artwork/Others

Creator

Andreas Praefcke

• Support as nominator --Brandmeister^talk 14:53, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
• Support photo is a little grainy but good overall. Pine^✉ 10:07, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
• comment blown highlights. Ones around the face a particular problem dito ones at the bottem of the plate. Mind you thats pretty much a problem with any reflective object under museum lighting.©Geni 21:21, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose. I would have been willing to support it but chromatic abberation and blown highlights just push the image quality below par IMO. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 11:36, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
• Weak Oppose per Geni. Hard to see details due to poor lighting. I would suggest arranging with the museum to take a better picture. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 20:12, 21 August 2012 (UTC)

Difficult. If you look at museum pics of the same class of objects they tend to have the same problems. You might be able to pull something off with some very well placed soft boxes and some HDR tricks but quite a challenge.©Geni 17:03, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Yes, that may do it, but it is difficult. It is a shame really... --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 19:04, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

• Weak oppose. Striking and interesting, but grainy. I would be willing to overlook that if the bowl had its own article, but, as it is, the EV isn't actually super-high. J Milburn (talk) 11:30, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)