Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:CSC team 2004 TDF.jpg

Team CSC, 2004 Tour de France

 * Reason:Great sports action shot. The composition is excellent, with focus right on the rider just right of center (rule of thirds and whatnot). The little white dots that are visible are road spray. The only drawback is that I don't have rider and locale identification.
 * Articles this image appears in:Team CSC, 2004 Tour de France
 * Creator:Jarrett Campbell on Flickr


 * Support as nominator  howcheng  {chat} 17:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose Nothing against the pic itself, good sports pic of acceptable quality, but the fact that it only passes the size requirements by 24 pixels and doesn't really add anything to either artice it's in leans me slightly against it. Clegs (talk) 02:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I would let it pass on size, but disagree entirely about composition. To me it's very clumsy, with the awkwardly cut off riders on both sides. Even the 'focus' rider has part of his front wheel clipped. Given it's meant to be showing the team, and say not just one of the riders, I don't think it quite makes it. I was also going to comment on no rider IDs for such a well known sport/event, but I see that was already mentioned in the nom. --jjron (talk) 07:52, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose, but only just. Could live with the light, and focus & detail is great, but the hardest thing in these shots – composition – hasn't quite been nailed, good though it is. I'd be happier with a technically less-perfect shot which showed the back marker; as a team shot, you can't crop him out and he looks really awkward being half-in. Seems unlikely to have been cropped afterwards, but you never know.. I could ID the riders, if needed; that looks like Ivan Basso in front, who went on to a podium place overall. --mikaultalk 10:23, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Oppose, i thought this was going to be a good image until it turned out to be the size of my pinky after loading. too small Teque5 (talk) 00:40, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It does meet the criteria for size. --jjron (talk) 08:15, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * True, but it still is only 0.5 megapixels. If an image was 1300 px long and 150 px tall, it would technically meet the critera, but would probably never be voted a FP. Just wanted to throw that out there. Thingg (talk) 15:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That may be the case, but it still couldn't technically fail on size; it may fail on other grounds such as lack of detail. The size criteria is possibly the only truly objective criteria we have, everything else being more a matter of opinion, so it's a bit much when the only reason given for an oppose is based on the one criteria it objectively passes. --jjron (talk) 10:46, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

--jjron (talk) 08:52, 14 January 2008 (UTC)