Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Underwater diving

Underwater diving

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Original – Surface supplied diver on diving stage, with USNS Grasp supply ship off the coast of Saint Kitts island, Caribbean.

Reason

Well done photo of surface supplied underwater diving, In a single frame it shows diver(s), riding stage, supply lines, ship and crew. Lead image in several articles including a featured article. The pixel count isn't high, but I think the encyclopedic value makes up for it. The cloud highlights are blown, but that's immaterial and almost impossible to control in a fast moving action shot (can't really do multiple exposure HDR, and a single exposure HDR would introduce underwater noise).

Articles in which this image appears

Underwater diving, Decompression equipment, Clearance diver, Surface-supplied diving skills, Dive planning, Diving safety, Outline of underwater diving, Index of underwater diving

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others

Creator

U.S. Navy, Photographer: Andrew McKaskle

• Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 19:09, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
• Neutral - Meh. It's an interesting composition, theoretically, but it's a bit uninspiring in practice here. The upper half is distorted with droplets, and refraction through the wet parts of the lens. The sky is also washed out. The optics of this fisheye lens also works against it here. Notice the figure in the upper left and how distorted s/he is. Moving on to the divers, the picture is better, but, still: underwhelming. There isn't much dynamism in the divers—they're just standing around while being winched up/down. There also isn't anything in the underwater background. It's just a void. Personally, I feel that File:Ship wreck Carnatic 2017-04-22 Egypt-7947.jpg or File:U. S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Kathleen Gorby conducts underwater photography training off the coast of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on April 19, 2013 130419-N-IZ904-042.jpg are better examples of higher-quality diving photos. -- Veggies (talk) 22:28, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

• This nom is for the EV and what it depicts, per reason above. Bammesk (talk) 02:21, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

About the top left corner, I don't think it's a person, zooming on it there are too many sharp lines and angles. Bammesk (talk) 03:23, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

• EV may have priority over artistic qualities, but it doesn't nullify them entirely. And I'm not altogether convinced this has any unique EV qualities that other, higher-quality images don't make up for. -- Veggies (talk) 19:02, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

• Oppose Very visible purple fringes at the top (noticeable from the thumbnail), blown highlights (burnt sky), strong distorsions. Interesting action but insufficient quality -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:34, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:16, 24 March 2021 (UTC)