Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Muybridge galloping horse

Muybridge galloping horse


Earlier this year, I made an older version of this animation (184x135px). The picture is used in Horse gait and High speed photography. It is Wikimedia Commons featured picture.

The old version was nominated here (Featured picture candidates/Muybridgehorse). In the meantime I could get better copies, so I made a new version of the animation (300x200px) which I want to nominate. It can be used in the above mentioned articles instead of the old version. Here you can see the full size of both versions at the same time.

Muybridge's photos where taken between 1878 and 1887. The animation is made of 15 frames (nr. 2-16). Muybridge wrote that the exposure time he used for horses at full speed was between one six-hundredth and one eight-hundredth of a second each. The interval of time between successive exposures was 31 thousands of a second. As one sequence of 15 pictures takes about 1.5 seconds, the animation shows about 1/3 of normal speed.


 * Nominate and support. --wau > 20:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Immensely important historical photo series, well done gif animation, encyclopedic. You can't get a much better scan than this. (I assume this is from the printed plates in one of the books, and not the original photos.) --Janke | Talk 06:23, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. It's nice to see this image nominated on it's own. It also much better quality than the smaller one, so this one gets my vote. Nautica Shades (talk) 06:45, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Of high quality, historically significant, and encyclopedic. -- Tewy  20:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support Per Tewy HighInBC 19:55, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support TomStar81 (Talk) 02:41, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I am suprized this pic only got this many votes considering the raging debates we have had in the past over related images. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 05:48, 7 October 2006 (UTC)