Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Juan Carlos I of Spain

Juan Carlos I of Spain edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 3 Feb 2011 at 04:20:57 (UTC)

Original - King Juan Carlos I of Spain the current monarch of Spain

Alt - Cropped

Reason: Very good image and high ev as lead image. Quality image and valued on commons also it is featured on German and Turkish wikis
Articles in which this image appears: Juan Carlos I of Spain, Sailing at the 1972 Summer Olympics
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Royalty
Creator: א

Support as nominator --Spongie555 (talk) 04:20, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment he looks bored. Nergaal (talk) 04:52, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would say he look more serious as he is attending the Charlemagne Prize ceramony for 2007, hence the yellow ribbon around his neck(even though he won it in 1982). Spongie555 (talk) 05:04, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Conditional strong support Having taken pictures of U.S. presidents before, I can attest first-hand that getting close enough to get a clear, well lit shot like this is not easy. This is pretty good and looks like an AP picture. I really like the red highlights off the back of his shoulders; that is something one doesn’t see every day. But I definitely think this could be much improved with a better cropped version; I see no point to all that stuff to the left of him. Greg L (talk) 05:10, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is a crop version here, File:Juan Carlos I of Spain 2007-2.jpg. I just thought this one had some shoulder room. Spongie555 (talk) 05:22, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That’s (almost) exactly what I was hoping for. It is ideal horizontally. But it has way too much above his head. Why not a third one? One that is cropped horizontally like File:Juan Carlos I of Spain 2007-2.jpg and is cropped vertically like this one? Greg L (talk) 05:32, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I put it there as an alt incase anyone perfers the original. Spongie555 (talk) 05:33, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support Original Having taken pictures of U.S. presidents before, I can attest first-hand that getting close enough to get a clear, well lit shot like this is not easy. This is pretty good and looks like an AP picture. I really like the red highlights off the back of his shoulders; that is something one doesn’t see every day. I’m not sure it needs so much of that cloth business off to the left of him, but it seems, somehow, better than the square Alt (which has way too much black above his head for low-flying birds). Greg L (talk) 05:37, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support original. This is a good picture; the lighting and focus are great, and the composition manages to be useful yet interesting- this is no passport photo. The alt very much is a passport photo, which is not ideal for FPC. J Milburn (talk) 10:50, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. The lighting looks really weird to me (was he under colored stage lighting?) Also, the fact that we see a ribbon from which the awarded medal was suspended, but not the medal itself, looks odd. I'm aware that HM, and not the medal, is the subject of the portrait, but it just seems weird and distracting to see that colored ribbon out of context. Spikebrennan (talk) 22:33, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, stage lighting. Don’t you think that is rather cool looking? Greg L (talk) 04:15, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Original The alt looks terrible! Almost like a cheap, passport shot. I like the original much better for its EV, and difficult to shoot (as in availability) royal. SMasters (talk) 03:46, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- - To see that a wikipedian took a photo of His Majesty up close and with great detail is very impressive. Spongie555 (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose both as per Spikebrennan. The lighting looks very unbalanced. The red light at this shoulders is just...distracting.Razum2010 (talk) 04:26, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The Red light looks like it outlines his shoulders so that his suit doesnt blend into the black background. Spongie555 (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose based on lighting. The combination of red light on the shoulders and the white light from the camera flash looks unnatural to me. Purpy Pupple (talk) 05:15, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This was most likly a staged shot but I could be wrong. Spongie555 (talk) 05:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I don't think it is, I think the photographer just chose their moment very well. J Milburn (talk) 11:01, 26 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support < 5 Makeemlighter (talk) 04:41, 3 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]