Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tasbih, Islamic prayer beads

Tasbih, Islamic prayer beads
Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2015  at 12:29:06 (UTC)


 * Reason:It's artistic and of a high quality.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Prayer beads
 * FP category for this image:Other; Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment
 * Creator:James Gordon


 * Support as nominator – Mhhossein (talk) 12:29, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * My main question is about the contrasts, especially on the right hand side, where the black pearls meet a dark shadow underneath. --Tremonist (talk) 12:50, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Vignetting is non-encyclopedic. Focus was missed on the beads themselves. Also, for some reason, there is a white sliver in the top-left corner. Very nice, artistic shot, but not FP material. Once my studio room is restored, I can easily do a product shot of a tasbih/misbahah, which would be more useful in the prayer beads article. This image should be in the tasbih article proper. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:45, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Chris Woodrich: Tasbih (Arabic: تسبيح‎) is a form of dhikr that involves the repetitive utterances of short sentences glorifying Allah, in Islam. Thsi picture is showing an item using wich Tasbih is done. This item is called Prayer beads. Mhhossein (talk) 17:59, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * In Arabic, that is correct. In Persian (and in Indonesian; I wouldn't go to a religious items store here and ask to buy a misbaha; people wouldn't know what I was talking about, similar to how when I first arrived I had to refer to the veil as jilbab and not hijab because the latter word sounded too much like ijab kabul) the item itself is also known as a tasbih. Hence why I said "a product shot of a tasbih/misbahah", in recognition of the various names for the object. As for "This image should be in the tasbih article proper", obviously a picture of the act of tasbih would have good EV in an article on the act itself. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:51, 3 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Chris Woodrich: Yeah, we call it Tasbih. Mhhossein (talk) 04:42, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Oppose - I usually avoid opposing pictures but this one I should. Over contrast, level high, not at all reaching the genuineness of the situation but as Chris said, in artistic sense, its a good job but not for FP. SORRY! : DreamSparrow  Chat   17:14, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:29, 13 September 2015 (UTC)