Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Masque eharo MHNT ETH AC NB9.jpg

File:Masque eharo MHNT ETH AC NB9.jpg, featured

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Suggested crop -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:42, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects
•  Info created and uploaded by Ruthven, nominated by Yann (talk) 10:55, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Very curious object, great quality. -- Yann (talk) 10:55, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support per Yann -- 🇪🅰〒©🇭🅰- 💬 10:59, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose A very interesting piece of exotica, but there's a significant amount of posterisation in the background, visible even at thumbnail size. I will change my vote if this can be fixed. Cmao20 (talk) 14:49, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

•  Support Much better now, thanks Ruthven. Cmao20 (talk) 18:06, 16 April 2019 (UTC)

•  Support -- Seven Pandas (talk) 00:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment The sharpness is acceptable at lower resolutions but a square framing would be much better -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - I tend to disagree with Basile on this one. Some lead room for the protruding mouth/beak/whatever makes sense to me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

• Due to the very tight crop top and bottom, in addition to the vertical aspect of this mask, a square would leave enough lead room here in my opinion. I've added a note -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

• No crop at right, but some at left would be possible. The mask needs lead room. Regards, Yann (talk) 05:50, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

•  Oppose  Neutral Crop at right will be very welcome here, and the result in a square will be perfect. Just give it a try, either here or in an alternative. Similar case here. Grant almost the same space at the left than at the top & bottom, then the right side will become far large enough. Of course you need lead room. But in practice this space is not supposed to be disproportionate. Just make it elegant. The quality here is not exceptional due to the lack of sharpness at full resolution (only acceptable at 3500 px large with the present ratio), but despite this weakness I will support the alternative because the artwork is very interesting. Regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:44, 17 April 2019 (UTC) Changing my oppose to a neutral which fits better to my view of this work in state -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:13, 18 April 2019 (UTC)  Very good now -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:30, 19 April 2019 (UTC)

• @Ruthven: What do you think? Regards, Yann (talk) 10:48, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Hi all. My intention was to place the mask slightly on the left, to give more room to the "beak", but also to give more dynamism to the whole picture with the disproportion. The feeling being that a mask perfectly centered or to tightly framed would not help the eye to move in the photo. --Ruthven (msg) 07:29, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Traditionally, a portrait is vertical. See all the other masks in the same category. Now your current orientation is "tightly framed" up and down, because the margins seem drastically shrunk. You want dynamism ? Do like this Pinoccio. Since your mask is oval and not round, a square framing would bring verticality and dynamism at the same time. Other solution : increase the upper and the lower margins, then reduce a bit the left side, the beak will naturally pop up -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:47, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

•  Support --BoothSift 04:03, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Gnosis (talk) 18:26, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Minimal support I will forgive the unsharpness at full-res only because this was a long exposure and it is a very small image. But I agree that it could be cropped to a more vertical orientation. Daniel Case (talk) 16:04, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment Thanks for your constructing advices. Following them, and after a brief discussion, I did a square crop of the image. --Ruthven (msg) 08:05, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing art work. Also pinging the previous voters @Yann, Eatcha, Cmao20, Ruthven, and Seven Pandas: , @Ikan Kekek, Boothsift, Gnosis, and Daniel Case: as a formal procedure -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:30, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 23:13, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Comment - The crop is fine with me. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:15, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 10:02, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--MZaplotnik^(talk) 13:47, 21 April 2019 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects