Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Photo Portrait of Monsieur Bicep.JPG

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Please can you tell me what kind of portrait would suit a serious politician who, as far as I can tell, is responsible for transport in his party? This is a portrait, not a newspaper shot of him giving a speech at a conference (which is a clichéd image of a politician). I think there are sometimes unrealistic expectations of portraits, or there's a desire that a portrait tells you something about the person (when in fact it may do no such thing, and just reinforce the impression the photographer wants to give, or the viewer thinks they see). Colin (talk) 10:57, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If he's responsable for transport, i would like some reference to transport in the image. So take the guy out of the studio and take him to a subway/railway station, a bridge, a road... Something. If a portrait is limited to "here's a guy looking earnestly into the lens", portaits are boring, no matter what the technical quality. It leaves nothing in the image to seriously look at, except the pimples on his nose. Kleuske (talk) 12:02, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If you are going to write-off an entire class of images, because you find them boring, then I suggest you refrain from voting on them. He's currently responsible for transport. Next month he could be responsible for justice and the next year media regulation. To suggest that his current portfolio should be represented in any featured-quality image is naive. Should this lady and this couple be wearing crowns? -- Colin (talk) 12:26, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not writing of an entire class of anything. I objected on specific grounds to this portrait and supported another, more interesting portrait quite recently. Crowned heads or otherwise, I don't give a [bleep] about who's depicted, as long as the portrait really tells me something about them. This image doesn't. It's a bland, generic image. Boring. Kleuske (talk) 12:56, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest you are writing off the formal portrait, which is a class of image and doesn't resort to ridiculous gimmicks like shooting the transport politician on the bus. Colin (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I suggest you're fiercely attacking a strawman. Kleuske (talk) 14:17, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Whatever. I wasn't the one that suggested taking the transport politician to the railway station in order "to tell me who or what he is and does". That's such a basic error I'd strongly oppose such an image. Colin (talk) 15:20, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Sure... Next time wait for the image before opposing it. Strongly. Kleuske (talk) 15:28, 7 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative with colour moire fix

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Confirmed results:
Result: 6 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /A.Savin 17:07, 15 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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