Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Derek Jeter

Derek Jeter

 * Reason:I was annoyed a couple days ago as I saw the lead image for the Derek Jeter article was this image. So sad and unfortunate, so close to a perfect image but he's not quite set yet and that leaves his arms obstructing his face slightly. So, given that my last few Allison nominations have been pitchers and that image was an Allison, I kept that goal in my mind whilst browsing his albums. I came upon this today, and I certainly think it's featured quality. EV as it displays a Hall of Fame quality baseball player in his batting stance, providing dual EV both in displaying how he looks (a traditional portrait) and how he looks performing his profession (you would want an image of a famous welder to be welding, right?).
 * Articles this image appears in:Derek Jeter
 * Creator:Keith Allison


 * Support as nominator --Staxringold talkcontribs 05:28, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. A quality image that shows Derek Jeter doing what he does. Mostlyharmless (talk) 05:53, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment - the picture quality is poor, as it appears this is at full zoom.  SilkTork  *YES! 18:40, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support picture quality not that poor compared to most sports pictures --  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  10:03, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support Good quality image, perfect pose. Clegs (talk) 02:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. I was just thinking when viewing this picture that it could be FP-quality. Then I check and it's here, it's definitely a great shot. Wizardman  19:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Perfect EV, high quality. Comment: The image is rather noisy when viewed at 100%. I think simply downsampling/resizing it to 50% would be the best solution to this problem, since no detail on the main subject is lost by doing so, and the noise isn't so noticeable at this size. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 06:54, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * What would be the point of downsampling? Just view it at 50% then. You always use quality. A large scale print of the original will always look better than a print of a downsampled version. This obsession with looking at images at 100% is counterproductive. Please upload all reasonalbly good images at full resolution. --Dschwen 14:15, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 00:15, 14 September 2009 (UTC)