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- Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/People#Musicians and singers performing
Info created and uploaded by S. Bollmann - nominated by Arion -- 😄 ArionEstar 😜 00:20, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Support -- 😄 ArionEstar 😜 00:20, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
Weak oppose I want to like this pic—it's cool and different from what I usually see at FPC. However, the noise level is too high and microphone in front of the face is not ideal. Buidhe (talk) 02:03, 17 November 2021 (UTC)- Support Very expressive shot. Concert photographers have to shoot at high ISO values most of the time. This is not a controlled environment like macro photography. I like the framing and the overall mood. Let's give concert photographers a fair chance at succeeding here. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:55, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Macro photography in the field is not a controlled environment although I know that we see many 'studio' macro images at FP. But why should a concert photographer not be able to do better? The framing especially is strange. Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:13, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Charlesjsharp, the field is controlled in the sense that you can choose to visit when there is a huge powerful lightsource up in the sky, unlike this concert which is inconveniently set towards sunset. Or you can stick some flashes on your camera and go close to the subject, unlike this concert where the subject is inconveniently 27 feet away from the camera, and flash isn't allowed. And you can wait for your subject to alight on a leaf and rest, unlike this concert where the subject has inconveniently decided to sing, play a musical instrument and move his whole body in time with a nearby drum beat. The exposure details (1/250 sec, f/3.5, ISO 2000) indicate no room to lower the ISO without impacting sharpness. Event photographers don't choose high ISO because they think digital noise is appealing, they choose it because they have to, and their customers aren't pixel peeping an 18MP image. Unlike, as usual, Commons FP. -- Colin (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support per Frank. Regarding virtually all practical purposes (digital use at normal magnification, print, ...) noise is an overrated factor anyway. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:35, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support In accordance with F. Schulenburg's and M. Falbisoner's reasonings. -- Radomianin (talk) 10:47, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support I disagree with Buidhe's comment. If you want to capture a rock singer singing, there is often no way around having the microphone in their face (depending in the singer's technique). In that case, it is important, for the microphone not to cover anything important – which is the case here: Eyes, nose, and most of the mouth are clearly visible. What's more is that even the microphone stand is clearly separated from the body, not covering anything at all. In my opinion, that has been handled exceptionally well in this shot. Isolating a subject like this on a busy stage is not an easy task either. The framing feels a bit tight from the thumbnail, but when viewing it large it gives me the feeling of being right there in the first row being squeezed against the barriers. --El Grafo (talk) 14:23, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support per El Grafo and Martin Falbisoner. --Aristeas (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --Llez (talk) 09:25, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --A.Savin 13:03, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support — Rhododendrites talk | 13:04, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support -- Colin (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 17:42, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --XRay 💬 06:20, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --Ermell (talk) 09:33, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Oppose I understand the technical issues and that's not a problem. What is is that this just doesn't stand out from other pictures of singers at microphones we have. I'm sure he's engaged in his performance, but the image doesn't capture that for me ... he looks like he might as well be phoning it in. The bottom crop is awkward (and maybe the top one a little too tight) and I don't see what that extra space on the left does for the image. Daniel Case (talk) 18:24, 20 November 2021 (UTC)- Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 08:21, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:13, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
- Support --IamMM (talk) 13:49, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 16 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:10, 26 November 2021 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: People#Musicians and singers performing
