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•  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff. Another potentially challenging nomination. This image of Finnish EU Parliamentarian Nils Torvalds was taken in Strasbourg earlier this year as part of Wiki Loves Parliaments. This was my favourite portrait. Yes, it's fairly bland as far as portraits go (we didn't have a lot of creative options), but sharpness and detail is about as good as one could expect I think and the pose is pleasant. I'm interested to see how it's received here. -- Diliff (talk) 22:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Diliff (talk) 22:34, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Nice detail on the face. Daniel Case (talk) 00:03, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:18, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 06:35, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Pose and expression are very good, and so is the detail rendering, including his eyes being in focus :-) I don’t like the flat lighting though. The face is too bright for me, and looks slightly blueish. --Kreuzschnabel 07:27, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
  • The lighting is slightly flat, yes, owing to the two balanced flash umbrellas on either side of him. If that's a flaw, so be it, I had little control over it because we worked together in shifts and required the lighting to be calibrated and consistent so that all our cameras could be used at short notice. We had only a few days to photograph as many of the 600+ EU parliamentarians as we could. As for the brightness and white balance, I could adjust this fairly easily but I don't see it as too bright or blueish, so maybe it's better to wait for a second opinion before overwriting it with a correction. For now, here's an edited version of it with -0.2EV and 5500k white balance instead of the original 5100k. What do you think? Diliff (talk) 15:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
    •  Support Significantly better IMHO. --Kreuzschnabel 18:18, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support YES! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support It would be churlish of me not to support this. The image is sharp, but then I'd expect several grand of camera equipment to be able to focus on a stationary target from six feet, and the pro lighting permits f/11 to give plenty room for error :-). But that alone wouldn't make an FP, merely a QI. The thing that raises this enough (and only just enough, I'm afraid) is the subject. There's some character there with the smile and cravat. But on the negative is the unimaginative lighting and grey background that makes the images taken at this event look no more attractive than your school photo. As for colour balance, it is slightly cold/light but not necessarily wrong in that. The other one you link to has the face ok but I really don't like turning the grey background that sickly colour, or making the background any darker. -- Colin (talk) 19:59, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
  • I'm the first to agree that it would likely not be FP material if Nils wasn't charming and characterful. As for the lighting, I'll see if I can selectively lighten and neutralise the background of the edit tomorrow. Diliff (talk) 22:20, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
    • The linked image was rotated too. -- Colin (talk) 22:34, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
      • I know, it was a quick and dirty low res process from the RAW file. The full version should be correctly rotated. Diliff (talk) 09:10, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Kruusamägi (talk) 22:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
• Update: I've just uploaded a new version over the top of the previous one (refresh caches etc). Corrections made as follows: -0.2EV, warmer white balance, lighter background and slightly more of a CW rotation than the original (he was still leaning back slightly in the previous version, although it may have been an actual lean rather than a camera lean). Hopefully this hasn't introduced any new problem. Diliff (talk) 09:10, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support the new version. Yann (talk) 11:44, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent skin tones. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:15, 07 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support new version looks much better. --Kadellar (talk) 10:48, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Jacek Halicki (talk) 20:26, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 18:27, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

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