Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Time passes.jpg

Image:Time passes.jpg, not featured

•  Info created,uploaded and nominated by Muhammad Mahdi Karim -- Muhammad 17:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

This picture shows a man standing alone. With the shutters speed very slow, the cars that pass are in a blur, giving a sense of time passing and that we humans, so small can not do anything about it but witness its passage.

•  Support -- Muhammad 17:11, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose I'm really sorry, but this is nothing special. Neither the subject, nor the technical quality. —αἰτίας •discussion• 19:49, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Question What is this supposed to show? --Reflection of Perfection (talk) 06:07, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
  • IMO it shows time passing, due to the motion blur. Muhammad 05:25, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Neutral nice idea. The composition is also ok but maybe there should have been some more moving cars in the pic. --AngMoKio (talk) 14:05, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose great idea, but you haven't quite captured it. I can't say what it needs, but something. Sorry, Ben Aveling 20:52, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Support there's something in the image that appeals to me.--Mbz1 (talk) 02:04, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose There is definitly something appealing in the relevance of this picture, IMO it's quite an original way to show time passing by. I like the simple, un-attractive street that is putting emphasis on the 2 main subjects. But the image visually is missing that wow, that something to make it FP. I encourage you to improve this idea: try different locations, light conditions, angle of view. --S23678 (talk) 13:53, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment Thank you all for your comments, supports and opposes. I am learning a lot. A note to others, please leave your comments if you do not want to vote, so that I may improve future pictures. Thanks. Muhammad 14:32, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• Having just a bit of the far side of the road is a negative - barrel correction would fix that. I'd be curious to see a version without break lights - nor sure it would be better, but maybe. I think a version without the tree might work better - but I think the lamp post is good, it breaks up what would otherwise be very dominating horizontal lines. Maybe, just maybe, it might work better if the near lane was just a bit less than half the picture rather than a bit more than half. I think that one car heading in each direction works well - the front of the car at the top left is, I think, a negative. I could be wrong. As other people have said, variations on this image would be well worth exploring. Regards, Ben Aveling 09:16, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

•  Support as Mbz1 --Ukuthenga (talk) 19:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Needs more wow. Also, there appears to be some barrel distortion -- the far edge of the street looks curved.--Specious (talk) 07:32, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose As αἰτίας. --Karelj (talk) 15:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Neutral - I love the composition, it is very nice. Thought the picture's quality and the subject isn't as convincing. //moralist (talk) 19:40, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Aitias. Cacophony (talk) 06:06, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

result: 3 support, 6 opposes, 2 neutrals => not featured. Benh (talk) 20:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)