Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/BMW M3

M3 GT

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Jul 2010 at 20:25:11 (UTC)

Original - A BMW E36 M3 GT negotiates the chicane at Goodwood racing circuit, UK. The M3 GT was produced in limited numbers to homologate the E36 M3 for international GT racing and featured many aerodynamic upgrades and an uprated 295 horsepower engine.

Reason: a high quality, high resolution, striking, dynamic picture of a limited edition motor vehicle being used for the purposes for which it was developed. This picture is used in a large number of wikipedia pages in many countries.
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BMW M3

FP category for this image: Engineering and technology/Machinery
Creator: ultegra

Support as nominator --Ultegra (talk) 20:25, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose With only the very front of the car in focus, it is quite inferior for this sort of subject matter. It’s not a depth-of-field issue; the sweet spot of the focus was simply in front of the car and the license plate is about the only part of the car that is remotely in the focus zone. The widespread usage in the other-language versions of Wikipedia suggests only that a better image is not available or not generally known. Greg L (talk) 20:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Out of focus. In addition, as general precedent, license plates should be blurred. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 21:33, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose- the image quality just isn't there, not to mention the fact that the license plate should probably be blurred. J Milburn (talk) 21:34, 29 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support- it appears that some here don't understand how to photograph a rapidly moving subject that is coming towards the camera. The area of focus (the front of the vehicle) is perfectly captured whilst still maintaining the desired motion blur that creates a dynamic image. It would have been simple to have just set the camera to 1/2000th of a second exposure and have had all of the car in sharp focus. Of course, the downside of this is that the car would look completely stationary, merely leaning to one side as if its offside dampers had collapsed. That's what makes this such a standout photo from a technical perspective, something which seems to have escaped some other commentators.bad_roo (talk) 08:05, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: This is user's first edits at FPC, and first edits in over a year. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 19:01, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That's a little insulting to the other editors bad_roo - I'm sure they are well aware of how to do what you say, but that doesn't mean it's FP quality... They are saying that this is too out of focus for an FP, not that the photographer didn't know what they were doing... Gazhiley (talk) 08:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Compare another current car FP: File:Mazda RX-8 on freeway.jpg. Focus with the appearance of car motion is possible even at high speeds. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 19:07, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per focus issues Gazhiley (talk) 08:59, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Whatever you want to say about focus issues, it's still a bad crop as well. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 09:57, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Suggest speedy close- we have a large number of nominations active at the moment, and this one is clearly going to fail. J Milburn (talk) 01:50, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:43, 8 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]