Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Timothy Blackstone Bronze Plaque

 
Timothy B. Blackstone Bronze Plaque at the Blackstone Library (October 30, 2006)
 
Edit 01 by Vanderdecken (talk contribs). Perspective correction, cropping and minor colour/noise adjustments.
 
Timothy B. Blackstone Bronze Plaque at the Blackstone Library (March 22, 2007) with flash
 
Timothy B. Blackstone Bronze Plaque at the Blackstone Library (March 22, 2007) without flash
 
Edit 02 by Vanderdecken (talk contribs). Taken from the second non-flash version. Cropped, colour and levels correction.
Reason
I have a WP:FL (3/16), I am close to having and a WP:FA (3/26), I want to become an admin to be involved in WP:FC. I might as well get my hands dirty at WP:FP
Articles this image appears in
Timothy B. Blackstone, Blackstone Library
Creator
TonyTheTiger
Nominator
TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio)
Still oppose. The newer version is well-taken of its subject, but "there's no 'there' there". howcheng {chat} 06:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do you mean "I am not a photographer", or "I am not the photographer"? If it's the latter, then the licencing information on the image page is incorrect. If it's the former, apparently you are a photographer, albeit perhaps a reluctant one... but you won't be able to do perspective correction without a decent photo editing programme - MS Paint is definitely not going to be sufficient. --YFB ¿ 01:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am the photographer. I am not a serious photographer. I just use a point and shoot Canon Powershot A620 and MS Paint for cropping in general. I have a new (Feb 2007) Hewlett Packard Pavilion DV9000 and all the programs that come with Microsoft Vista Home Premium edition plus the Canon utilities programs. I may have other
  • I can see you didn't finish your comment, but I'll respond anyway. I'll do the cropping and perspective correction - MSPaint is not sufficient (it's bad quality for re-saving images and it can't do perspective correction). It's very low quality. For FP-quality, you need something like Adobe Photoshop (what I use), Corel Paint Shop Pro or the GIMP. I've uploaded it on Commons, I'll add cats when CommonSense is updated. —Vanderdeckenξφ 19:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose Vanderdecken's Edit 02, oppose all other versions. Tony, you've addressed most of my criticisms and the new non-flash image is a vast improvement over the original, particularly after Vanderdecken's crop (Vanderdecken - I think your colour correction is a bit off; it seems to have a slightly red cast). Unfortunately (and I think this is probably the fault of your camera, so it's going to be hard to do anything about it) there's still a lot of noise and the sharpness isn't great. Top marks for effort and for responding positively to criticism, but sadly I can't quite place this image amongst Wikipedia's best. --YFB ¿ 22:43, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose -not eye catching -Nelro 20:29, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose its a lovely subject although it has far too many technical faults Ahadland 15:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

  • Support — I have retaken the photo. I don't want to crop it with MS Paint given the technical sophistication of this panel of judges. It could be cropped slightly especially at the bottom to get rid of the exit sign. Feel free to aid in the photo editing by cropping and any other minor adjustments that are considered fair in this process. Please vote on new image. TonyTheTiger (talk/cont/bio) 20:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'll make another edit tonight (after 6:00PM GMT/UTC). Bagsy that, I'll do one of the flash, one of the non-flash. I'll upload them both to commons and post here - until then, keep voting above this divider. —Vanderdeckenξφ 10:55, 23 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 11:51, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]