Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Mud Cow Racing - Pacu Jawi - West Sumatra, Indonesia.jpg

File:Mud Cow Racing - Pacu Jawi - West Sumatra, Indonesia.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Sports
•  Info created by Rodney Ee - uploaded by Jacopo Werther - nominated by Mimihitam -- Mimihitam (talk) 19:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mimihitam (talk) 19:23, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! This is a wall of mud droplets fixated in space like in The Matrix. Great expression as well. The crowd in the background is nicely visible for a perfect amount of context.. – Lucas^T 19:38, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support The action shot to end all action shots! Eat your heart out Tom Cruise. --Cart (talk) 19:48, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

• Btw, shouldn't this be in "Sports" category? --Cart (talk) 20:00, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
• @Cart done --Mimihitam (talk) 20:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Support - Great shot! It would be wonderful to have a little more information about mud cow racing. I'm not familiar with this. West Sumatra - that's Minangkabau? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:22, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek yes it isǃ You can read more about it here: pacu jawi --Mimihitam (talk) 20:30, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

Terima kasih, Mimihitam. It would be great to add that link to the file description. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:11, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Neutral It's very dramatic, but there are a lot of JPEG artefacts, probably caused by being saved at a high-compression setting. Cmao20 (talk) 20:32, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --BoothSift 23:40, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulphere 08:06, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral Dramatic scene, but image quality is quite low (CAs, noise, sharpness) --Uoaei1 (talk) 08:34, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Typical case of the wow factor supercedes the lack of quality.--Peulle (talk) 08:40, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment The visible lack of sharpness in the details, the impression of noise despite a reasonably low ISO of 2200 is the same thing that's bothering me when shooting sports at high shutter speeds. Using the same camera and lenses for stills the images are crisp and nearly noise free - even at ISO 3200. --Granada (talk) 10:21, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 12:41, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! That's action! --Yann (talk) 16:50, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support A strong wow, but it might have been a bit sharper --Michielverbeek (talk) 20:36, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Nice action shot! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:19, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Poco² 08:02, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:29, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Even though I'm not super impressed by the quality or people in the back, it's a pretty wowy shot. --Podzemnik (talk) 11:37, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose It has nothing to do with the quality of the photo. But a rope through the nostrils is not my thing.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:05, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment And with this oppose you will now have to see the image another five days. --Granada (talk) 16:16, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment All users have the right to vote according to how they perceive a photo. Even if I support this, I will respect Famberhorst's view without commenting on it. --Cart (talk) 16:32, 5 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment I did not want to disrespect Famberhorst's vote, but my interpretation of his comment with the vote was that he finds the view of the photo disgusting and that he would not want to have to look at it anymore. :) --Granada (talk) 12:26, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

•  Support You have two cows. You race them through the mud. It goes flying everywhere. It makes a real cool photo that will have the editors of National Geographic calling to find out how they can run it in the next issue. And then the government sells you the milk. Daniel Case (talk) 06:06, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Abstain because of WOW, as I would have opposed pretty much any other image of this qualtity. From the thumbnail, I really wanted to support this. But even downscaled to my screen resolution of 1920x1281 (ca. 2.5mpx) the quality is lacking quite obviously. It's starting to look pretty good around 1000x667 (0.6mpx). That might still be enough for a half-page print in NatGeo, but the big double-page spread is probably off the table. Anyway, I'm sure we're looking at a POTY finalist here. --El Grafo (talk) 09:28, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:56, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - --Fischer.H (talk) 16:38, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - Eatcha (talk) 18:58, 6 June 2019 (UTC)
•  Neutral -- Per Uoaei1, and especially because of the many jpg-artefacts in the lower part Llez (talk) 03:56, 8 June 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 18 support, 1 oppose, 3 neutral → featured. /Tomer T (talk) 21:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Sports