Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/ScottCrossfield

Albert Scott Crossfield
Voting period ends on 7 Apr 2011 at 19:59:36 (UTC)
 * Reason:X 15 Test Pilot Scott Crossfield at the launch of Space Ship One. Not long after I took this photo, I recieved a e mail from a woman whom was a friend of Mr. Crossfield, and she said that Scott personally said he felt this photo was the best photo he had seen, in recient years, of himself, and asked if he could use the photo. This is a really intresting photo, it show one of the worlds first super sonic pilots ever watching the worlds first private space shot.
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 * Creator:WPPilot


 * Support as nominator --WPPilot 19:59, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Support Fingers chopped off is a little annoying, but the lighting etc is pretty good. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:33, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak support, as per JJ Harrison, plus there is a considerable amount of noise in the background. Still, the subject is very well depicted and lighting conditions are excellent. --Murdockcrc (talk) 18:58, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong support It's a long time since a photo on FP has contained some emotion. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak support. The chap in the background is a little distracting, and the crop is a little tight, but it's a very nice portrait. J Milburn (talk) 22:21, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Like everyone I'm sensitive to the special circumstances of this photo and the nice expression. But they don't fully mitigate, in my opinion, the poor background and tight framing. Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:32, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Alvesgaspar. Additionally, the photo has little encyclopedic value. It isn't as if the photo shows him inside of an airplane or wearing flight gear, but rather an elderly former pilot. Not to be condescending in any way to Mr. Crossfield, but a photo of him in his later years doesn't have as much value.Razum2010 (talk) 03:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * He would disagree with you, if he was here to do so, I am sure. He personally send a e mail to me that in his own words said this photo was the BEST representation of HIM he had seen in years. Those were his own thoughts and words. --WPPilot 12:20, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I feel compelled to respond to this. I love portraits and I wish we had more of them as featured pictures.  This is a wonderful one--it has a lot of personality, great lighting, and, as you say, really captures the subject very well.  But a really good portrait also depends on the way the subject is placed in a context.  Look at this one, for example, or this one; in both cases, the subject is placed in surroundings that seem natural to them, that are sufficiently unlighted and out of focus (what is often called bokeh) not to distract, and that have a visual or geometrical logic that supports the composition of the photograph.  Your picture is an excellent capture of a person, but the background is part of the photograph, and the picture suffers accordingly. Chick Bowen 15:34, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The background is fantastic. The mood of the people in the background contrasts so strongly with the subject's mood, as he reminisces about his past with tears in his eyes. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 19:06, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
 * It has always been a challenge for photographers to capture real pictures of real people. Many factors have to be considered. The shots of "Life Epic Moments" are in fact ones like this. It was a monumental moment for mankind, as a whole and here was a man that was in it from the start, WOW, one could only imagine what he was thinking about in this photograph. I really have to agree with aaadddaaammm in that the mood of the people behind Scotty is such a wonderful contrast, it "frames" him well-those people are in fact - his admirers..--WPPilot 00:58, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Weak support. Lovely portrait of the main subject, but the guys in the background on the right are distracting. --Avenue (talk) 01:33, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Razum2010 - the EV seems rather weak Nick-D (talk) 08:31, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 23:38, 7 April 2011 (UTC)