Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Anatoliy Byshovets

Anatoliy Byshovets edit

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Original - Anatoliy Byshovets is a football coach from Russia who has managed the Soviet Union, Russia and South Korea. He was formerly a striker, playing his entire career with Dynamo Kyiv.

Edit - cropped

Reason: Compelling photograph with bags of character, despite its rather standard pose. Nice lighting, and he looks like a football coach, which is nice. Would be our first Russian athlete (second if my nomination lower down the page passes by some miracle) and our first football coach.
Articles in which this image appears: Anatoliy Byshovets (it may filter into others over time)
FP category for this image: People/Entertainment, while we have no sports category.
Creator: Uncredited (Bolshoi Sport)

Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 11:15, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit - awkward amount of head room cropped. Jujutacular ^talk 14:09, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support A hair light would have helped with background separation. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:49, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support the original: background underexposed, but good for the highlighting for the subject. Very good quality. And Oppose the edit: ruins composition, too tight crop at top. --kaʁstn 17:41, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree the crop is too tight at the top, but the original has too much- perhaps we could have a crop somewhere between? J Milburn (talk) 17:56, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose both orig and alt. His face is not particularly feature-worthy and he seems almost annoyed. Also, the composition is pretty bad in both. Too much o his body is shown relative to the head; I would prefer a crop on top and also on the bottom (close to the tie). Nergaal (talk) 23:18, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Sorry, so I understand- you're opposing the current cropping, but do you feel an alternative crop could work? What do you mean about the "not particularly feature-worthy" face? J Milburn (talk) 00:37, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, a crop with more of the face (as % of the image) might work better. Face: it might have good EV (although in this pic the character seems annoyed/grumpy/sad) but it is not outstanding or eye-catching (I think mundane subjects should be of really high quality, while outstanding subjects can be of lower technical quality to be worth featuring). Nergaal (talk) 05:08, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The expression actually made it stand out, to me; it just screams "football manager". I guess I could attempt an alternative crop myself at some point, if no one else fancies giving it a go. J Milburn (talk) 09:05, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support cropped The grimming face makes the picture more interesting imo. I don't know why, but this picture reminds me of a painting by René Magritte.-- ♫Greatorangepumpkin♫ T 19:31, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted —Maedin\^talk 07:24, 30 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]