Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Thermal protection system inspections from ISS - Shuttle nose.jpg

Image:Thermal_protection_system_inspections_from_ISS_-_Shuttle_nose.jpg

I am nominating this picture for Featured Status because I feel it manifests all of the characteristics of one of Wikipedia's finest images. As far as significance goes, the picture is important to the space domain of Wikipedia and asserts current significance as it has just embarked on a new space journey. In terms of photographic expertise, the picture is centered and perfectly clear and it meets the size requirements for Featured status. This picture is one of Wikipedia's best and definitely deserves to be featured. The picture appears in Wikipedia's article on the Space Shuttle Discovery and was created by NASA.

Nominate and support. - Wikipediarul e s 2221 22:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Wonderful, and unusual view of a space shuttle, are those ice crystals causing those specs, I heard the space station is gathering surrounding ice crystals do to various water leakages over the years. HighInBC ^{(Need help? Ask me)} 23:12, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I thought this was already featured. Oh well, guess I was wrong. | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 23:44, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Incredible picture! Sharkface217 23:53, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great picture :) --Tobyw87 23:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, cramped composition, a lot is hidden in shadow and details are obscured, not very illustrative of any particular aspect of the shuttle. It failed as a commons FPC. [1] Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 00:24, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment What are those little speckles? Hot pixels? Dust (not likely)? --antilived ^{T | C | G} 01:15, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Edit1 Removed most hot pixels but cannot remove the banding noise, maybe someone else can have a try at that? --antilived ^{T | C | G} 00:33, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support Nice picture. --Midnight Rider 01:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Agree with Night Gyr about the composition and the image quality is a bit average. I would have thought a properly-lit shot taken with a decent, stabilised terrestrial camera would be a more encyclopaedic representation - it's not that obvious that this is taken in orbit anyway. --YFB ¿ 01:36, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- An imposing and powerful image, but at the expense of encyclopedicity. It's not great as an image of a space shuttle, but as in image of a big space thing about to crush the view. And it's not that great aesthetically (mainly because of composition), but also the lack of contrast.--ragesoss 05:00, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree with Night Gyr and Yummifruitbat. Just too much is missing from this to make it a FP worthy shot. Cat-five - talk 05:12, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The composition doesn't seem to great... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Inklein (talk • contribs) 07:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support AHHHHH...it's coming at me!!! Very impressive pic, but it's too cramped and a little disorientating. Jumping cheese ^Cont@ct 08:42, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Actually, this picture should be upside down; someone should flip it, and edit it too (where's Fir when you need him). | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 12:14, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Because Fir is the only one who can flip a picture? And how does the concept of up or down matter in space and in a pic like this? Having it this way makes it easier to recoglize the shuttle at first glance. --Dschwen 12:40, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, I can flip the picture too; I meant Fir should try to fix the lighting. Sorry I didn't make it clearer. | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 18:57, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - If there is anything to fix it's not the lighting (check the pic at full size, it uses the whole dynamic range), but the hundreds of hot pixels (probably cosmic rays). And I'll be happy to leave that tedious work to Fir ;-). --Dschwen 19:06, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The entire picture is drab and shadowed. There are much superior shuttle pics available - Adrian Pingstone 14:47, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - Wow this pic is imposing. What's with the random color dots all around? --⁪froth^{T C} 15:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Vertical scratches, grain in full size. Seen especially clearly in original, but not completely removed in the edit. --Janke | Talk 18:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too crowded. I don't understand what is going on in this picture. It's kind of ugly and not at all informative. Benjaminlobato 03:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is too much cropped out, and the grain adn scrathes are quite bothersome. NauticaShad e s 15:34, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose. As benjaminlobato. Terri G 11:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Raven4x4x 05:55, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]