Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Combat knife attached to gun.jpg

Original - Marine Corps Bayonet training

I think it meets the criteria and was instructed to give this a try before submitting it.

Articles this image appears in: Bayonet, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, OKC-3S bayonet, Knife bayonet

This isn't a bad photo, but I feel it would be unlikely to meet with success at FPC. Some key reasons: size is marginal (although technically within guidelines); it feels a bit too cramped to be ideal for what it is showing - while it may have been shot this way to bring the viewer 'into the action', to me it would have been better to be a bit further back; related to the previous point, the crop is a bit tight, clipping off the guy on the left and only just leaving in the knife at the right; despite the potentially intentional close composition mentioned above, it just feels very staged to me and by being up close it just highlights this; I keep thinking it's a bit overexposed, however that's probably more a side-effect of the dead grass, so possibly OK there; there could be an issue with the source - it says HighInBC created it but also says the USMC did, so who did? - HighInBC certainly used to upload his own photos and I thought he was from Canada, so would be unlikely to be in the USMC and why didn't he upload it? This would need to be clarified. Thanks for bringing it here. --jjron (talk) 06:37, 24 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]