Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Girl September 2008-1.jpg

File:Girl September 2008-1.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
•  Info Second try, after 5 years! Which means that I like this picture very much. Not only for the obvious reason (only understandable by a few, sorry) but also because the composition and colours are very good, comparing favourably with the portraits in our gallery. All by Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:00, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Nice portrait. --Yann (talk) 19:07, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose, sorry. I'd be very happy to have this quality of photo in my family photos on Flickr (they're not public, in case anyone looks). I spent some time looking at the FP people photos and I think our best tend to have some spark. Either the subject is naturally especially photogenic or the lighting is creative or the pose and look just gets you in the eyes. If the image lacks all these, such as a studio portrait of a boring politician, then it needs to be technically perfect in high resolution. The lighting here is nicely soft but not creative and possibly a little bright so her eyes aren't wide open and round (though some people just don't open their eyes as wide as others). The background doesn't really enhance the portrait imo and the composition is quite ordinary. Her face is like any pretty girl smiling for the camera. After I write this I looked at the previous FP comments and see similar view. It is hard to get a characterful portrait from such a young unblemished face. For example, File:Boy Face from Venezuela (Original).JPG wouldn't get FP as there's no spark. But a creative crop removed the unfortunate ear, and cranking the Lightroom Clarity slider up to 100 made the subject look 10 years older with a more interesting face, even if somewhat dubiously created (I hear Reuters have banned photos processed from RAW, which must all now come as JPG out-of-camera! I'm not encouraging you to over-process a portrait, of course). . -- Colin (talk) 19:09, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose largely per Colin. While it's a nice personal portrait, I don't think this adds a lot of value to Commons and the composition is ordinary. --Pine^✉ 20:21, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support We have another FP like this and the the EV is subjetive. I like this picture --The Photographer (talk) 00:13, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Colin. QI for sure but not an FP portrait. Daniel Case (talk) 06:06, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Neutral --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 10:48, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Colin. --Tremonist (talk) 15:20, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

 I withdraw my nomination Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:54, 24 November 2015 (UTC)