Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wave

Ocean Surface Wave after the passage of a ferry

Reason: It is an excellent image, and it is featured on wikimedia commons
Articles this image appears in: Bodysurfing, Ocean surface wave
Creator: User:Malene on Wikimedia Commons

Support as nominator Juliancolton (Talk) 16:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Where's the surfer? :) Kaldari (talk) 17:13, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose For something this commonplace, the resolution should be significantly higher, IMHO. CillaИ ♦ XC 18:02, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I can edit it a little and adjust the sharpness. Just give me a few hours. Juliancolton (Talk) 18:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Sorry, but I removed the edit, as it is not for FP consideration due to the heavy downscaling to way below 1000px. The orginal gets an oppose. Nice composition, but for a common object the quality should be much higher. --Dschwen 19:23, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    - I have re-added the image, let people oppose the edit if they think it is too small but the size is considered a guideline for a reason and even if it's below the guideline people have the right to weigh in on it. Cat-five - talk 20:09, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
      - I applaude your newbie-friendlyness, but putting a 738 × 600 pixel image of an easily repeatable subject up for candidacy is just an utter waste of time IMO. --Dschwen 03:21, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Both it is a nice wave and would be a good shot other than the fact that the original is not sharp enough and I have to agree with Dschwen that the downsampled version is regrettably too small, even being flexible within the guideline the smaller size makes it harder to work with for various applications (articles, front page, print edition... etc) within and WP. Cat-five - talk 20:08, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm not all that familiar with image editing, so is there any way to sharpen the image without making it smaller? Juliancolton (Talk) 21:03, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - No, but you could make it seem sharper with a small-radius unsharp mask. Thegreenj (talk) 21:17, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've added a larger sharpened version. What do you think? Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 19:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 05:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]