Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Robert Sheehan

Robert Sheehan

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Jul 2012 at 13:40:26 (UTC)

Original – Robert Sheehan, an Irish actor, at the Minghella Film Festival in 2011.

Reason: Uncluttered and flattering recent portrait of an actor without looking either too posed or too candid. Not something we get very often. The resolution is good and although it's slightly soft, I don't think it detracts from the image or the EV.
Articles in which this image appears: Robert Sheehan
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People
Creator: Marie-Lan Nguyen

Support as nominator --Julia\^talk 13:40, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
opposite ill lighting al (talk) 13:57, 15 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I quite like the lighting. This is not a formal portrait, so I don't expect the same control of the lighting. It's a slightly unorthodox portrait composition, but it seem to work quite well in this case. Sharpness isn't great at 100% but enough detail is there. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:20, 16 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Diliff --Muhammad(talk) 17:27, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Looks distinctly "posed" to me, in that well-worn "Now look soulfully into the middle-distance" way. Alas, the requisite secretive half-smile and the "alert gazelle" head-held-high together give him an unfortunate look of self-conscious smugness. But the real problems: the sharpness is a bit iffy and the "lighting" very much so: on the hair it emphasizes that its dyed and as for the shadows on the face - those on the forehead look like the skin has peeled off. Plutonium27 (talk) 22:04, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aesthetics aren't our foremost consideration here at FP, and this photo meets the Featured Picture Criteria. Pine^✉ 08:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Pine. Armbrust, B.Ed. ^{WrestleMania XXVIII} _{The Undertaker 20–0} 09:46, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Thanks for nominating my picture and voting for it. I'd just like to mention RS wasn't posing for me: at the moment the picture was taken, another photographer on my left was trying to get RS's attention as he was leaving a theatre. Jastrow (Λέγετε) 20:43, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Not a faux pas at all, thanks for your comments. It's always good to get the photographer's point of view, especially when people make claims about the origin, processing or reality of the scene that only the photographer can confirm or deny. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:17, 25 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Robert Sheehan MingFilmFest 2011.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:32, 24 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]