Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Crew of STS-131

Crew of STS-131

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Original – Attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, these seven astronauts take a break from training to pose for the STS-131 crew portrait. Seated are NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter (right), commander; and James P. Dutton Jr., pilot. Pictured from the left (standing) are NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio, Stephanie Wilson, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Naoko Yamazaki and NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, all mission specialists.

Reason

Good image, official crew photo of the STS-131

Articles in which this image appears

List of human spaceflights to the International Space Station, STS-131

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator --Mediran (t • c) 12:01, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
• Oppose Sorry, it's just a bad case of awful Photoshopping. I don't even think they used a green screen. Not that great of quality. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 07:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
  • Isn't that just a painted backdrop? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:34, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• I really don't think so. I vote green screen (the backdrop shows through the woman's hair in one area). But there's a blue shadow/halo around almost everyone and I don't understand why. I can't find that halo in any other STS crew shot I checked. Some of them are really well done, others not.

1. STS-5, real-life model?
2. STS-36, my guess is rear-projection. The film grain matches. Seems like a stretch, but they get pretty creative later on.
3. STS-39 Several of these photos "cheat" with the black background, but the clever lighting impresses me.
4. STS-127, green screen again, I'm guessing.
5. STS-132 Almost embarrassingly bad, but super easy "Star Wars cheat" (black background)
6. STS-131 this one is so awesome, I would support an FP nom of it! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 05:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• • I suppose you're right. I suppose the question, then, is whether each STS mission is important enough to be worth an FP on encyclopedic value alone, since, barring other group photos of the same crew from the mission, these will be hard to replace on the STS-mission scale. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:10, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

• I don't see why not? But this is kind of treading into territory I don't consider myself familiar enough with—like how many FPs of the space shuttle are !allowed. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 20:29, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:07, 17 March 2013 (UTC)