Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jim West

Jim West

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Dec 2012 at 15:53:42 (UTC)

Original – Jim West is a guitarist best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Reason

A professional-quality photograph from a notable photographer. High quality, nice big photograph.

Articles in which this image appears

Jim West (guitarist)

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment

Creator

Kyle Cassidy

• Support as nominator --J Milburn (talk) 15:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
• Oppose Is he auditioning for a part in a 1980s Milk Tray advert? It isn't IMO a particularly flattering photograph and I'd never guess that he was a musician. While an FP of a performer doesn't have to show them performing, it does help. For example, this photo has much higher EV with the Hawaiian shirt, shell necklace and guitar. I wonder if we can get hold of it instead? -- Colin°^Talk 21:08, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I got the shot from the photographer, not the subject. I thought I may get some opposes like this, but I thought the photo deserved a chance :) J Milburn (talk) 21:38, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
    • I was half expecting you to reply that the "Milk Tray Man" was actually part of his act with "Weird Al" Yankovic, and that the EV was therefore enormously high to those "in the know" :-) I wonder if these photographs have higher EV as representative of the work of the photographer than of the subject? Colin°^Talk 23:20, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
• Support It's actually a very visually interesting portrait with good technicals... We don't need a picture of a person for their biography to be them doing what they're known for.. it's a biography about them, not an article about only one aspect of their life. So that you can't figure out he's an artist from this photograph, so what? — raekyt 07:52, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
• Weak Support The lighting is done well, notably the left side of his face, and the other parts are in generous detail. But I must say, is the subject of this picture Jim West or Jim West's shirt? ---Saw1998 (talk) 00:19, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Julia\^talk 18:39, 2 December 2012 (UTC)