Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Nils Torvalds MEP, Strasbourg - Diliff.jpg

Nils Torvalds
Voting period ends on 22 Feb 2014  at 11:51:43 (UTC)
 * Reason:I was recently involved in a Wikimedia project to visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg and photograph the ~750 Members of Parliament in advance of the upcoming EU Elections. While the vast majority of the images we took are of good technical standard, it wasn't easy to take photos with 'character' as the politicians were often quite stiff and our makeshift 'studio' set up was not really geared towards aesthetics. This photo, of Nils Torvalds, a Finnish politician and coincidentally Linus Torvalds' father, is probably my favourite.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Nils Torvalds
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/People/Political
 * Creator:User:Diliff


 * Support as nominator -- &#208;iliff   &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  11:51, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh wow, Support. You were part of this? Heck of an experience, I think, although a couple of images were too tightly framed in my opinion (or tightly cropped afterwards). Article needs some serious work, but not part of the criteria. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:57, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I was, and it was an amazing experience! Great team to work with too. Yeah, I share your concerns about the framing, but every time I tried to allow a bit more room, I was encouraged to crop it tighter. Call it peer group pressure. :-) I think the tight crops work well for thumbnails, but viewed at 100%, I agree some can be a little tight. I haven't put together a gallery for my images from Strasbourg, but you can check my recent uploads to Commons here. The vast majority are from the EU Parliament project. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  13:03, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I kinda figured that about the crops. I mean, stuff like File:Salvatore Caronna 01.JPG is way too close. Technically competent, perhaps, and quite useful, but the crop just ruins it. Your recent uploads are awesome. I rather like File:Oreste Rossi MEP 2, Strasbourg 2014 - Diliff.jpg, to be honest. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:44, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I completely agree, that framing in the Salvatore Caronna photo is far too tight. Also the focus was missed so his facial features are not as sharp as they could be. Nevermind. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  17:06, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support That is an excellent photo (not that this is particularly surprising from Diliff, one of our best photographers). Also, Crisco, couldn't we just synthesize some more background in at the top in the worst case? Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:07, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it would be possibly to synthesise some background, but it gets trickier when the crop is tight such that both sides of the jacket/shoulders are already cropped. It's slightly unethical (and also runs the risk of looking weird) if you start to synthesise part of the subject just to widen the framing. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  13:03, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't do it, to be quite honest, and the aspect ratio is already a little too vertical IMHO. If it were just blank space, sure, but when we have the subject as well... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:44, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support, absolutely brilliant picture; I echo the above concerns about the article. Perhaps best to keep it off the MP until at least a few tweaks are made to the article. J Milburn (talk) 19:02, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment. Also, for those who are interested: my 5 minutes of fame in a French TV news report on our visit. I'm the photographer in most of the video footage, although in actual fact there was a regular rotation of about 10 photographers and a lot of assistants to give everyone a chance to rest and process the images. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  22:36, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Godhulii 1985 (talk) 03:05, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Good image both technically and with some actual character too. Miyagawa (talk) 12:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Technically very good. -- Colin°Talk 22:12, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 11:53, 22 February 2014 (UTC)