Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:2007 swifts creek lawnmower races01.jpg

Racing lawnmower

 * Reason:I took these shots hand-held (with no IS!) at a fairly slow shutter speed to achieve the motion blur, and so I'm quite proud of the sharpness of the main subjects. Given how unusual the sport is, and the quality of the images, I think these make for worthy FP. If you're interested in seeing some more pix - take a look at Picture peer review/Lawnmower Races
 * Articles this image appears in:Lawn mower
 * Creator:Fir0002


 * Support as nominator Fir0002 22:19, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Edit 1 wow, the length of those BG blurs, you must have been shooting really slowly so as you said the sharpness is amazing. Not totally sure we need two FPs of a rather obscure subject but I offer support to both, I'll see what others say. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 00:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah shutter speed was 1/60s - which at 200mm is pretty slow! The trick is lock your shoulders in and pivot with your body rather than your hands. It's also very important to pan with the subject well in advance of the point when you want to press the shutter - so that when it reaches that point your pivot speed matches the speed of the moving target. --Fir0002 01:11, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * How did you get the shutter speed so slow? ND filter? Polarizer, Stopping down? What aperture were you at? -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 03:20, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Nah no filters were required - f/8 and ISO 100. Bear in mind it was exposed for the midrange (highlights were originally slightly blown) and it was taken during winter fairly early in the day (so the sun isn't as intense as in summer). --Fir0002 10:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose Great shot, nicely worked, just not encyclopedic. Worse, it has undue prominence in an article which doesn't mention lawnmower racing at all; it actually looks really weird there.. might have some relevance in the section dealing with ride-on mowers, although it would be trivial at best. OTOH I guess once the article caught up it would probably be worth renominating. --mikaultalk 23:35, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose as per low encyclopaedic value - compare with previously nominated image, which is more informative. Separa (talk) 11:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose for being unencyclopedic for the article (Lawn mower) for which it is nominated-- I don't typically wear a helmet and racecar driver clothes when I mow my lawn. Lawn mower racing might be better.  Spikebrennan (talk) 19:32, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Well actually I think that's it's strength - few people would be aware of the sport and I think they'd find it useful and interesting information if they went to the lawnmower article --Fir0002 22:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

--jjron (talk) 08:46, 15 January 2008 (UTC)