Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Patricia Cornwell

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Jun 2016 at 12:04:32 (UTC)

Original – Author Patricia Cornwell

Reason: A very good photo I discovered while making up a list of things for this month. Doesn't need restoration.
Articles in which this image appears: Patricia Cornwell
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator: Christina Bonello

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:04, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support - Technically rather nice, though I'm not convinced that this needs so much light on her face. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:02, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support – Yeah, the lighting seems kinda gimmicky – as if coming from a large diffuse reflector. Sca (talk) 14:41, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support – Jobas (talk) 21:34, 17 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Crisco 1492, Sca, and Jobas: I think all professional photos are going to be at least a bit gimmicky. They reflect the fashions of the time, like how c. 1910 photographs focus on chiaroscuro, and news photographs a little later loved to photograph the celebrities arriving on ships, or the few fixed standard poses you see in the long-exposure Victorian "hold it for a few minutes" photographs. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:12, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, but there's gimmicky handled (rather) well and gimmicky handled like this. I can accept this. This too. This works fine for me because the background is black, even though I would probably have lit the face a bit less. But the Cornwell image being discussed just doesn't work for me. Her face is overlit, and the background and shirt are likewise rather bright, giving relatively little definition to her features (especially at thumbnail size). — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:38, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Her all-white apparel exaggerates the lighting effects, too. Sca (talk) 12:15, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support. I don't actually share the concerns of the above commenters, but I do question the extent to which the photo actually looks like her. Josh Milburn (talk) 12:51, 26 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:29, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination didn't reach the necessary quorum for promotion. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:29, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]