Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Poi

Poi edit

Pic 1 - glowstick poi

Pic 1 - Edit 1 by Billpg

Pic 2 - fire poi

I would love to see a poi picture reach featured status. This is a truely amazing art, and anyone who has seen it live will agree that no picture can come close to capturing the feeling of awe that a good performer will leave you in. The only drawback being that to produce a good picture, the subject has to undergo a long exposure at night, leading to the artist being extremely blurred. But as they're not the focus, does it matter? There are a million and one fantastic poi pictures out there (good examples using: glowsticks, fire & flags), anyone of them is good enough for featured status - just for the "wow factor".

Nominate and support. - - Jack (talk) 04:58, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I can understand the difficulty of capturing this subject. Although it has some problems, the picture is still quite good. The pattern is amazing. I would probably prefer this if it were availible in higher res. --Fir0002 09:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support (Fire). I just like the pic. --Billpg 10:21, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Abstain (Green). Its not so bad, but doesn't light my fire. --Billpg 07:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Abstain (Fire). I've just noticed how small the image is. Can it be rescanned? --Billpg 13:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - By abstain do you mean you don't mind either way? Here is a link to the talk page of the guy who uploaded the fire one: [2], although he seems to have been inactive since Dec 05. If you can do a better job of contacting him than me (i.e. email him in french), feel free to request a re-scan - Jack (talk) 21:02, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    - Exactly, neither supporting nor opposing. If emailing him in Friench didn't work, then I doubt I could do any better. --Billpg 21:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment what's interesting is that on seeing the second picture, my first thought on the green and purple trees was "that looks like the Fête des lumières in Lyon, France". And sure enough, yep - December 10 last year, I may have even seen him. The lit-up trees in the background are good for the Fête des lumières article, not so good for demonstrating poi. The glowpoi image is nice, but too noisy. Stevage 11:20, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
CommentI love the fire one, but it is a little too small. Annoys me, because I want to see the shapes in the flame better. Does anyone who speaks French want to leave a message on the uploader's talk? --liquidGhoul 11:24, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I love the green one and I don't care what you say about resolution/quality. Renata 21:47, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support both or either. Pegasus1138^{Talk | Contribs | Email} ---- 06:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Very beautiful, but neither meets the resolution requirements. Also, the red dot in bottom right portion of the glowstick one is mildly distracting. I would support a higher resolution version of glowstick one. Not sure if I would support a higher res fire one, the background is kinda distracting. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 12:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I've had a go at removing the red light. Frankly, I wish I hadn't bothered trying. --Billpg 21:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose all (Whats up with the double nom anyway?) Resolution waaaaaaaay too low. --Dschwen 22:01, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support I loved the original image, and was thinking about nominating it myself a few days ago. However, I think Bill's edit is even more beautiful. I think it looks really great. It would be nice if it were bigger, of course. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 05:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- Thank you. --Billpg 09:08, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - You're welcome! By the way, talk about a small world... I was showing the image to a friend today, who is into Poi, who said that he is friends with the guy in the picture. Apparently the spinning community is "quite tight", as he puts it. Huh. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 13:11, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose all the green one to me doesnt look real, i cant see the persons armes, it looks like a a person has been pasted on to a cool green back ground, the fire one looks awesome but it needs to be bigger to real get the feel from the flames so oppose. Childzy ^{(Talk|Contribs)} 09:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not fake, baby! See the comment above yours. Even though that sounds so much like "friend of a friend" that I shouldn't really be posting it at all... heh. — riana_dzasta • t • c • e • 13:43, 29 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support first version – Wow! I've seen a lot of performance of this type, but the geometry in this shot is incredible! What an amazing pic of an amazing performer! A real treat! – Morganfitzp 23:50, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Extreme Support of the first version! FireSpike 03:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Poi circles.jpg Raven4x4x 05:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]