Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Freedom Monument close-up

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Oct 2016 at 20:22:35 (UTC)

Reason: A good image of the most famous national symbol of Latvia. The statue is high up a column, meaning that she is difficult to photograph front-on without a very long zoom. We already have one featured picture of the monument, but that one shows the entire column with the statue only a minor detail. The two different images both have high EV.
Articles in which this image appears: Freedom Monument, Kārlis Zāle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Sculpture
Creator: Smurrayinchester

Support as nominator – Smurrayinchester 20:22, 27 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – INeverCry 10:18, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Due in part to the monument's interesting history – surprisingly, it survived the Soviet occupation of Latvia. Sca (talk) 14:19, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Great image at thumbnail size, okay at full screen, some focus/artifact issues at full size that become distracting from the waist down... Given the pixel count, final file size seems a bit small.--Godot13 (talk) 20:54, 28 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree about the file size, the original is a lot larger. Bammesk (talk) 03:42, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I saved it at 95% quality JPEG, and I don't see any JPEG artifact issues. I still have the TIFF, so I could resave it as a 100% JPEG easily enough. Smurrayinchester 07:33, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Uploaded the 100% version. Must admit, the sky looks a lot better. Smurrayinchester 20:32, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looking at it closer, the de-noise is excessive, it shows in the feet area and the stars. Also I don't see a benefit in reducing (scaling) the image size, it results in loss of details. ~~Aside from the technical issues, I am undecided about significance of EV given we have a FP of the monument.~~ Image complements existing FP, as a set. I like the composition, excellent background. I have to Weak oppose because of technical issues, sorry. Bammesk (talk) 00:56, 30 September 2016 (UTC) ...sidenote: I ran the original image through GIMP despeckle tool, set at 2 pixel radius, and thought it was an improvement, just one user's opinion. Bammesk (talk) 01:45, 30 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Jobas (talk) 06:44, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful oppose per Bammesk. Daniel Case (talk) 21:14, 3 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 22:48, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]