Talk:Richard Shelby

Consensus to change Richard Shelby portrait
Requesting consensus on the lead image for Richard Shelby. Based on 's reasoning, the 2011 and 2022 images suffer from being too zoomed-out (something I don't disagree with) which in my view doesn't facilitate clean half-crops. Instead, close crops of the head and neck area must be used if a clean cropped portrait is desired. However, the current lead image is not high quality, being only 478 × 598 pixels in size.

For me, I think going back to the uncropped 2011 image, where Shelby still looks surprisingly spry, fit and unwithered at 76, is alright. The zoomed-out aspect isn't exceptionally problematic in my opinion - I can still tell what Shelby looks like from a brief look. SuperWIKI (talk) 06:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I've been thinking about this for a few days now. I do quite like the uncropped 2011 portrait. For a full-body political portrait, the shot composition and background noise is quite good. While I think for shoulder-length portraits tend to be more encyclopedic (ex. Richard Nixon), the color in the 2006 one is quite muted, and it is of lower resolution. Curbon7 (talk) 07:04, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I only updated the 2022 one briefly because it happened to exist. The 2011 one has been there for years, anyway. SuperWIKI (talk) 07:15, 13 November 2023 (UTC)