Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor

F-22 Raptor

 * Reason:Apt photo of air superiority fighter with nice vapor trails
 * Articles this image appears in:F-22 Raptor, United States Air Force, Fearswoop, Negative index metamaterials
 * Creator:Rob Shenk


 * Support as nominator --Brand[t] 17:02, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support - It has a very strong EV, fine resolution and very atractive. Does it has a little image noise, or is it just my imagination? - ☩  Damërung   ☩   .  -- 19:38, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Personally I did not notice, may be just slight softness but it's fixable. Brand[t] 21:08, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

--jjron (talk) 07:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment There is something unnatural about it, either it's been oversmoothed or something. Specifically if you look at the edge of the wings to the sky there is something not right going on there. — raeky ( talk 22:04, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support I suspect the smoothness of the aircraft is the actual smoothness of the aircraft. The background does have some noise, but short of using smoothing tools which would damage the detail in the subject that is to be expected in blue sky. The encyclopedic value seems high and much detail of the aircraft can be seen. I think it adds much to the article. Sam Barsoom 01:20, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Upon closer inspection there does seem to be some over-masking at the top and some under-masking at the bottom. See the thin blue edge on the bottom that is not on the top? That is likely what the sky looked like before being adjusted. The over masking at the top looks to have blurred the edge between jet and sky. Just a theory I could be wrong, I am no expert. I still support it. Sam Barsoom 01:22, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Looks oversharpened, although not in the typical way. Any insights into the post-processing? Kaldari (talk) 23:00, 5 October 2009 (UTC)