Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 2 Nov 2011 at 20:48:47 (UTC)

Original – a portrait of the famous actor John Malkovich at the 44^th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic.

Reason: Very good high resolution portrait of Malkovich.
Articles in which this image appears: John Malkovich
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: Che

Support as nominator --MrPanyGoff (talk) 20:48, 24 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - I like the pose, to be honest. Background isn't too distracting. However, it does not appear especially sharp in my opinion, and the lighting is a little uneven. Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:52, 25 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose -- Nice picture, nice pose, nice expression... but too much shadow. Way too much shadow IMO. If the lighting were better, it would be perfect. (I made an edit just for gits and shiggles trying to reduce the shadow, but the more I looked at it, the more I didn't like it.) JBarta (talk) 02:06, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I think that this is very good edit. The only problem is the shade of the eyes, imo. Can we put it here as an alternative version?--MrPanyGoff (talk) 08:31, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Different color eyes... didn't notice that until I uploaded it. I also gave him age spots or a powder burn on his forehead. It's not a good edit. The original, even with its faults is better. No sense in putting it here as an alternative. It will just muddy the water and get shot down faster than an Arab jet. I mentioned it because I didn't want my effort to be completely in vain and it might at least serve as an amusing curiosity. JBarta (talk) 09:00, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Poor lighting, Both unattractive shadows and overexposure. DOF too shallow a lot of detail lost. Seems exceptionally noisy for only ISO250. Poor crop for original image size. Background distracting however that is less a technical problem and more my personal opinon. Overall the standard is certainly not upto what we hold portraits to here at FPC. JFitch (talk) 01:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. At thumbnail, I was going to weakly support (weakly for the distracting background) but, at full size, the focus seems off. J Milburn (talk) 14:40, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per lighting. Also the background letters are a bit distracting. Materialscientist (talk) 09:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 00:55, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]