Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Storyman

Storyman


Some 30,000 people attended the opening of the Hiawatha Light Rail in Minneapolis, Minn.; United States in 2004. Storyman Mike Mann stood out from the crowd. His neatly trimmed grey beard, crisp white shirt with black vest, and straw hat presented an appealing and gentle demeanor. But it was his eyes that drew me to the storyman. I engaged him in conversation and asked Mann to tell me a story. Which he did, to an audience of one. I snapped this picture of Mann as he spun a tall tale from childhood.

Photo Qualities (1.) This informal portrait of a gentleman captures human character in rich detail. (2.) The exposure achieves a good balance between capturing shadow detail of the face yet avoids loss of detail in the sun-lit background. (3.) This is a documentary photo that helps capture the historic day of light rail opening in Minneapolis, Minn.; United States. (4.) Photo and caption place the storyman in context of this public event. (5.) Caption helps draw the viewer into the focal point of the photo: the subject's eyes. (6.) Photo includes action in the form of a gesture, which adds to the context of storytelling.

Photographer: Fishdecoy Wikipedia article Storytelling, Documentary photography


 * Nominate and support. - Fishdecoy 02:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Let's consider this photo for just the Documentary photography. Subsequently, I have re-cast the caption. Moreover I pulled the image from the Storytelling page. Fishdecoy 15:53, 25 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Support per nom.--Mike 04:24, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, as poetic and nice a story as this caption is, I don't really see the encyclopedic value in the picture. There's nothing about the image that distinctively shows that there's storytelling going on--there's no audience, and he's not even talking.  It's a good picture technically, as far as I can tell, but even after reading the caption, it's still just a picture of some guy. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 04:58, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Night Gyr said it exactly. Stephen Turner (Talk) 09:05, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Somewhat unencyclopedic, a few blown highlights, and cramped. Nautica Shad e  s  09:59, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - There are very few FP of people, something that I don't really understand. This one is a quite expressive portrait of a story teller that "captures human character in rich detail". Alvesgaspar 10:02, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak Support I would support if the hat and the badge were not cut off. Good picture overall. | A ndonic O Talk 12:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. For a picture of a storyteller I'd expect to see an audience. For a portrait I'd prefer a lower DOF. This lacks in enc. and the caption almost reminds me of the Golden Retriever nomination. How are you supposed to tell a person's character from a picture? That sounds like pseudo-science to me. --Dschwen 16:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - not technically stunning, and not really helping its article; Dschwen's right about the retriever. --YFB ¿  02:28, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not particularly special - his face is in shadow due to the hat, thus obscuring his eyes more than would be preferable. In addition, his hat is cut off at the top. Bob talk 11:36, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Night Gyr and Dschwen. Pstuart84 20:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Seems like a perfectly nice guy, but does little to show the subject of the article and not even technically stunning. Staxringold talkcontribs 22:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, picture fails to bring out the meaning of the article it is related to. - Mailer Diablo 19:15, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This is an amazing photograph technically, but it fails to have a clear subject. -- Tewy  00:11, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment I agree with the technical comments above, but I have no idea why this was taken out of the storytelling article and put into the documentary photography article. Maybe from the picture alone I can't tell that it's a storyteller, but in the context of the article it's very believable, which is good enough for good picture status. For documentary photography we have tons and tons of more relevant pictures in the public domain, starting with Migrant Mother, which was PotD a couple of days ago. ~ trialsanderrors 16:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 02:42, 3 December 2006 (UTC)