Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/5"/54 Mark 45 gun

5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun firing

 * Reason:At first I looked at it and thought "cool, a nice clean shot of the gun in action." Then I looked closer, and noticed that the shell the just left the barrel was caught in midflight in the image too.  It's an awesome action shot and probably the best eye-catching illustration of this thing possible. It's also already featured on the German wikipedia, apparently. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 04:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Articles this image appears in:5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun, Cannon
 * Creator:United States Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Felix Garza Jr
 * Nominator: Night Gyr (talk/Oy)

Support With preference for Edit 1. Excellent timing --Fir0002 23:10, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support &mdash; Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 04:53, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose It is a neat photo but there are a few things that stand out as being not so good. There are artifacts and heavy noise that cant be ignored, the composition is fairly marginal and the size is on the low end. The size would be ok if there wern't the quality issues but I dont think it's up to FP standards. --Fcb981 05:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support The noise should be given a pass because it is (necessarily) an extremely short exposure time. If you take the composition to be the gun, the propellant gas and the shell, then the composition is pretty good.  The image is striking and probably quite hard to reproduce.  I've seen pictures of gun muzzle flash, and pictures of bullets in flight, but I don't think I've seen such a nice photo of both at once. &mdash;Dgiest c 06:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Minor pref for edit 1. &mdash;Dgiest c 00:10, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Back then we don't have digital and their relatively high ISO speed while maintaining good quality, this is film grain and as said above, needed to achieve both DOF and shutter speed. But the noise is really a bit much and doesn't justify as similar shots can be taken now with much less noise. --antilivedT 07:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Olegivvit 12:56, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Yes, the noise is glaring, but this this sort of shutter speed and awsome subject, I'm inclined to overlook it...--Iriseyes 15:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Too grainy. Not a unique picture, either. Very interesting, though. --Janke | Talk 17:45, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Strongly [[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|15px]] Support edit 1 by Fir0002 - dagnabbit! I was about to nominate this! Ah well, beat me to it. Great image. I might upload a possibly-improved edit if I get the time. EDIT - changed vote to support Fir's edit of the pic - erfect, mate! —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 19:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support This pic is fantastic!!! Highly unique and it adds very significantly to wikipedia. --Tobyw87 22:36, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support. I'm willing to forgive the bad technical quality for the huge cool factor :) --⁪froth T 23:08, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Great WOW factor.  --Midnight Rider 23:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak support edit 1, some slight downsampling (1280x1024) looks like it could help. Noclip 04:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Edit 1 Well, I guess the grain has to be overlooked somewhat. | A ndonic O Talk · Sign Here 11:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support edit 1 -Wutschwlllm 12:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * support edit 1 - seems a remarkable shot, and the shape of the explosion cloud is fascinating. Debivort 10:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support edit 1 I love how the picture captures the gun in action Bjman 01:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Support edit 1 --Arad 18:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong Support edit 1. Damn! That's Good!!!!!! I like how it shows the shell exiting the cloud of smoke, and kinda splatters the smoke around a bit!!! That must have been a good high-speed camera to have nabbed that one! Great photo! Ilikefood 16:13, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Strong support edit 1 oooooo...ahhhhhhhhhh Very unique and encyclopedic pic!   Jumping cheese   Cont @ct 04:00, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Trebor 00:30, 27 January 2007 (UTC)