Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Era noite em Lisboa. Tranvía 575 de Lisboa, Portugal.jpg

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Electric tram number 575 in Lisbon.
  •  Oppose First of all, you are not going to persuade anyone by claiming they weren't able to interpret the photo. But the main point is that the tram is not sharp and looks awful at even 50% of full size. Your cellphone is not a good enough piece of equipment for you to take a technically very good photo, such that it could pass COM:QIC or here. Featured picture candidates is not a place for photos that "do not violate any regulations"; it is for the best of the best photos on the site. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:20, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Ikan Kekek. If a photo does violate any regulations, that's where it goes. --SHB2000 (talk) 00:05, 25 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Carlos, just an attempt to explain this, because “sharp” means so many things. Your photo is indeed sharp in so far as you have captured the tram nicely, without motion blur, by moving the camera laterally with the right speed and angle. Congrats! That is the correct technique to capture a moving vehicle and you have mastered it. But the photo is unsharp in another way, and this is what the people mean when they say “not sharp”. As Ikan already pointed out, the cellphone used to take this photo is not able to capture such a scene, especially at night, with the necessary resolution and fine details. Looking at the tram this means that it is sharp, yes, but there are no structures and almost no fine details. The cellphones tries to hide this (as cellphones use to do) by heavy sharpening, but it can sharpen only the coarse contours and edges, there are no fine details, the whole photo seems to consist of blobs of several pixels. I know this is hard to see this if one is used to smartphone photos, but when comparing them with the photos from better cameras one can see the difference – and it is a huge one. Compare this photo e.g. to the existing photos in the Rail vehicles gallery, e.g. to this Cable Car photo, also of a vehicle moving sidewards. The Cable Car photo is of smaller resolution than your photo, i.e. the tram uses less pixels than in your photo, but nevertheless the Cable Car photo shows much more fine details, because every pixel is used well – e.g. you can see all the faces. What does this mean? Your photo is nice, well-done and useful, but due to the limited capabilities of the cellphone it is not on the high level we would expect here. You could try to repeat this kind of photo with a better cellphone (I have been told that the newest phones really do excellent photos even in night situations) or, probably better, with some camera. Once you have learned how to use the camera well, you could make good use of your ability to capture the tram by moving the camera sidewards – and thus create a photo which is sharp in every respect. No offence, I just tried to explain this. Best, --Aristeas (talk) 07:14, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you very much for the complete explanation. Thank you very much.
    OK. Carlos Teixidor Cadenas (talk) 09:10, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I am going to present another photo taken with a photographic camera, of a steam locomotive. I hope that the new photo meets the high level of quality required. Thank you very much, and greetings to all. Carlos Teixidor Cadenas (talk) 09:17, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 23:23, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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