Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Photography/Archive 2

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WP:FOTO just about photos, or about articles about photography as well?

So is Wikiproject Photography solely about getting better pictures on Wikipedia? Or is it also about improving photography-related articles -- say Shutter speed or Aperture or Pentax K1000? Do others think that it would be useful to have such a Wikiproject? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iknowyourider (talk • contribs) 18:16, 17 June 2007 UTC

Wow, I look a total newb in that post. Didn't read the entire section of the talk page that contains discussion on this very topic, and I forgot to sign my post. User:Morven/WikiProject_Cameras and User:Pinkville/WikiProject_History_of_Photography are a start at addressing these issues... I still think there should be a Wikiproject for coverage of photography as a general subject, though -- what about coverage of photographic techniques and photographic equipment other than cameras? Or do HoP and Cameras cover areas like that?--Iknowyourider (t c) 18:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Template:WikiProject_photography

I have made improvements to Template:WikiProject_photography it can now be rate articles and show importance etc.

Konica and Minolta

Another editor -- not me -- has proposed that Konica and Minolta should be merged within Konica Minolta. I can't find any explanation of this proposal. (My own comment is on Talk:Konica.) -- Hoary 01:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Archive

The talk page was a complete mess, so I've archived according to relevance and age (in that order) leaving stuff I think is probably useful and pertinent to the (most) recent project revival effort. Feel free to move anything back. mikaul^talk 23:48, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Reviving the revival: summary observations

Reading the exchanges above, it seems there's a fair bit of confusion (well, I was confused, at least) over several areas of activity, although a couple of things are clear enough. I've been taking notes, wondering if there's a future for the project or not... the problem is that there's so there's loads to do. I fugured a summary would help. I'm not going to be too active over the coming weeks, so feel free to edit this list:

• The project is solely concerned with encouraging quality photo content on the encyclopedia; other stuff belongs in other projects.

• This is the place for photo contributors, rather than article writers
• All project activity related to articles on photography belongs at Wikipedia:WikiProject History of photography

• The project should centralise currently diverse activities to galvanise collaborative activity

• One of the hardest tasks here is to tie in with Wikigraphists and properly channel and allocate tasks involving retouching and other photo editing needed on the encyclopedia. Links to Commons need to be explored, although the proposed WikiProject_Featured_Pictures should handle an improved migration of WP:FPs to Commons, for example.
• Work on a range of template and other tags and list them here with explanations (stuff like {{reqphoto}})
• A very wide scope isn't a good thing; Wikipedia:WikiProject History of photography, FPC project and any other photo-related projects should redirect from here and deal with their respective areas more or less independently.

• Create sub-pages to deal with topics and issues too in-depth for the main project page.

• The Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service is a good example of a service the project should coordinate and improve, by making them sub-pages of the project.
• A place to list bad or non-free replaceable photos that we can source when we have nothing better to do...
• Tutorials on taking better enc photos, including lighting and other techniques would probably be quite popular.

• Keep track of the wiki's regular photographers and keep them informed of developments, improvement drives, etc.

• Does this mean newsletters, etc? Probably..
• This is another toughie and the admin involved could be time-consuming. I would suggest, not a rota exactly, but some way of sharing the load. Judging by the number of talkpage comments at FPC, the project should be able to pull together a decent team, rather than end up being one man's burden.
• Contact those listed at Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Photographers to generate potential latent interest.

That seem s to be about it. As I say, add/subtract as necessary. If there's enough interest now, we can really get the project moving. If not...
mikaul^talk 13:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Great list, mick. I agree with all of the above. In addition, I think that we should try to bring a bit more order to the pictures of topics where photographs are important, plants would be a good example. I also would like to put together some "field guides" if you will, where there is a page like with info-box like things with a large picture of the subject with brief information in the box below. Then organize the "thing" into order by color of size, etc. I'd like to here some other people's ideas. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 18:42, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Not sure where the infoboxes come in, could you elaborate a little? --mikaul^talk 16:23, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Shark

Please take a look at Helicopter Shark and join the discussion as to the decision to delete this well known Internet photo hoax. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 21:41, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Requested pictures

Could we somehow incorporate Wikipedia:Requested pictures into this project? NauticaShades 15:11, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Organizing photo requests

I'm very glad to see a revival of this project taking place! I have spent some time trying to whip Category:Wikipedia requested photographs into shape, but it's a huge job. I put together a proposal for a Photo Request WikiProject which has not received much feedback. Maybe there's interest here in rolling that project into the charter of this one? Tim Pierce 14:00, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

I, for one, definitely think this is a good idea. Not much requests actually seem to be fulfilled, and I think a better organization as well as connections to a large number of photographers here could help. NauticaShades 01:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Have a look at the section Proposal to revitalise this project, above, that I made with very similar aims in mind. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem there is a huge amount of interest in getting this done. I wish there was. --MichaelMaggs 06:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Well, for what it's worth, I have already made a number of the changes to the {{reqphoto}} template that you suggested -- great minds think alike. :-) And my PhotoCatBot has been busy adding relevant location and subject tags to unqualified {{reqphoto}} articles to make them easier to find. I would love to hear more feedback, suggestions for more classification it could do, and possibly get some of us to sign up to fix some tags by hand! Tim Pierce 19:11, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

I have added a "How you can help" section about classifying photo requests. I think we should take the suggestions that you made for revitalizing this project and put them there (rewording appropriately), so interested Wikipedians who come to this page can see right away how they can be useful. Tim Pierce 03:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

A task that needs doing, but quite a job. I suggest to anyone tackling this to first pick a topic and scan for articles related to that, it makes categorization easier. I also find the list in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by subject difficult to go through. May I suggest reorganization of the sub-categories (not bottom or top levels) to take a similar structure to the way subjects are listed in Portal:List of portals? Then doing the same for the Wikipedia:Requested pictures, at the same time adding links to the reqphoto categories. Traveler100 13:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion, open for comments:-

Move sub-categories currently under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by subject to following new sub-categories under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs.

• Arts
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of art
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of albums
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of architecture
  • Electronic music articles needing pictures
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of clothing
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of filmmaking
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of furniture
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of jewelry
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of musical instruments
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of television programs
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of textiles and fabrics
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of toys

• Biography (People)
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of people

• Geography (Places)
  • Airport articles in need of photographs
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of mountains
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of schools
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of parks
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of prisons and jails
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of rivers and waterfalls
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Africa
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Antarctica cont.
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Asia
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Europe
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in North America cont.
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Oceania
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in South America

• History
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of historical events
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of military history
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of memorials

• Science and Mathematics
  • Animal articles needing photos
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of animals
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of astronomical bodies
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of geology
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of chemical compounds
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of fungi
  • Microbiology articles needing photos
  • Plant articles needing photos
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of anatomy
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of weather phenomena

• Society, Culture and Philosophy
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of sporting equipment
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of sporting events
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of sports and games
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of food
  • Wikipedia requested photographs in Centrist Party
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of anime and manga
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of religious subjects

• Technology
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of aircraft and spacecraft
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of cars
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of assistive technology
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of computer equipment
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of consumer electronics
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of firearms
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of machinery
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of motorcycles
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of roller coasters
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of tools
  • Wikipedia requested photographs of transport

Do you think this would be easier to sort through? Would changing the structure cause any problems? Traveler100 12:15, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

I have reorganised the categories under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs to be based on Wikipedia portals structure (roughly).

There are some I am not sure what to do with, have been moved to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by subject, any suggestions?

The re-org. has shown up some duplicates, for example Category:Amphibian and reptile articles needing photos - Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of amphibians and reptiles and Category:Plant articles needing photos - Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of plants. How should these be delt with? Traveler100 10:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Merger via WP:CfD? --Kralizec! (talk) 14:39, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

I have cleaned up the Wikipedia:Requested pictures page and reorganized it into subject areas that will hopefully make it easier for contributors to follow. I believe I have matched up all sections to the sub-categories under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs (which has also been reordered). Could someone find the time to check through and see if any have been missed? The next stage is to complete the explanation text for each section on how to set the reqphoto template, to make life easier for article contributors. We can then better publicize these pages in the appropriate portal pages.Traveler100 07:58, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

And a bloody fine job you've done too. Looks to be complete to me. I'm not sure what you intend in terms of {{reqphoto}} explanation text: you mean this needs to go onto each section page, I assume. More hard slog.. The WP:RP page works really well as a directory, the way it is now. We should avoid letting it get ito the the state it was before by changing the lead/header text, encouraging people to use the appropriate sub pages. Great work anyway. --mikaul^talk 11:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Stitching

I don't think I'm alone in having difficulty stitching photos together. I read a few comments on one of recent DIliff's FPCs where some users touched on stitching techniques so I figured I'd give it a go here with my issues. I gave up on trying stitches for a long while, but after hearing about/trying/purchasing PTGui I've taken a lot more. Some common problems that I still can't seem to overcome are:

1. I can't seem to manage the color of the sky. For instance this picture, and this one both have problems. The color of the subject/ground is ok, but the sky and clouds all suffer.
2. Many times I'm trying to take interior photos (like this, or this) and I run into one of the following two problems. Either I try to shoot wider than 30mm and PTGui just can't over come lens distortion, or I shoot at 50mm and can't get 15+ consistent exposures.

Any thoughts or ideas? Thanks, Cacophony 07:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

They look fine to me, yes there is some banding but you seem to manage it well. Obviously, keep the same exposure settings, and I take all my pano shots (as of early september) in RAW so that I cam apply the same White Balance and tint and sharpening. I also stop down the lens (mainly my 55-200) to at least f/8 if not f/11 to take care of vignetting that gets in the way of consistant skys. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 19:14, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree with fcb981.. There is some banding but its relatively minor.. one thing - are you using smartblend to blend or are you using enblend or the default PTGui blender? Smartblend in my opinion does a far better job. I also agree about using RAW whenever possible. You have far more control over the white balance (and therefore the sky colour), and you can compensate for vignetting easily. The easiest way to maximise the quality of panoramas is simply making sure the exact same settings (exposure, white balance, etc) are used with each frame. If you do that, you're at an advantage. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 20:45, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips, I have been pretty much forgetting about the white balance aspect. Aye aye aye, so many variables. I have been shooting in RAW, so I should be able to fix some of the problems that I've been having. Cacophony 04:35, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Scope Issue

Should improving articles on photography be part of this project's scope? I felt that this was more in the scopes of Wikiproject History of photography. The general trend seems that this project is now solely for improving and contribution photographs to Wikipedia, but there are some remnants of its former self, such as the template. The template used to classify all articles with it transcluded into a category for articles on the history of photography, and this obviously does not apply to to the pages it is now transcluded on, such as Wikipedia:Requested pictures. So, what is our stand? Is our scope now solely for contributing photographs, or should it include writing about photography? NauticaShades 12:59, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Project name change?

I've revived discussion here about possibly renaming the two projects in order to minimize confusion. Any comments either here or there about this would be very welcome. Thanks! Girolamo Savonarola 13:15, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

If no one is going to comment, then I'm going to presume that silence implies consent and make the appropriate page moves. So if you have a problem with this, please discuss. Girolamo Savonarola 18:24, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up; I replied there. --Kralizec! (talk) 19:17, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Expanded documentation needed for {{reqphoto}}?

Would it be possible to have the documentation expanded on this tag, especially in regards to the optional parameters? When adding the {{reqphoto}} tag to Pennsylvania class cruiser, it took me forever to (a) figure out which optional parameters I needed, and (b) what the available categories were. In this case, after an embarrassingly large amount of searching, I eventually figured out that "|military history" and "|in=the United States" were the best options for this article, however it could have just as easily been something like "|naval ships" (there are literally thousands of ship articles in need of photos), "|in=World War I" or something similar. --Kralizec! (talk) 19:36, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I have updated the description. Is this any better?

I intend to reorder some of the categories under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs as I also find it difficult to navigate.Traveler100 16:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

The updated description looks great, and the examples are especially helpful. Thanks! --Kralizec! (talk) 16:54, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Science

This needs to be renamed, perhaps in science or in the sciences or something like that? Is it possible to rename categories like this in an automated fashion? Looking at the other cats, most of them have unnatural names and unconventional capitalization. By the way, I want to add a biology subcat here, but what can I call it? Perhaps ditto with 'in biology' or 'in the biological sciences', or 'Requested biological photographs'. Richard001 09:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Agree it does not sound good; I was simply using the tool provided. Not sure if the reqphoto tool can be easily changes, so how does Wikipedia requested photographs of Science Subjects sound? Although that makes the typing of the request longer. Traveler100 18:17, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

thinking about it you could do {reqphot|in=The Sciences} to get Wikipedia requested photographs in the sciences; but maybe this could be confusing as the in parameter has only be used for location.Traveler100 20:08, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Why not just keep it simple? Wikipedia requested science photographs. The parameter, also kept simple, should be "=science". Girolamo Savonarola 20:30, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I agree; the only problem is getting a template with that code to put the request in the category suggested. As it stands the template places the request according to the rule 'Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of/in [category]', so it would need to be reworked somehow, and I'm not even sure if that's possible, let alone practical. Richard001 23:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm certain the template variable area (and output results) could be easily modified. The problem is more finding someone willing to implement it. Girolamo Savonarola 00:48, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Someone possessing good skills with the template parser could probably do it pretty easily. --Kralizec! (talk) 18:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Started looking at the science categories and agree we need a biology sub-category. As not sure how to edit templates may I suggest we create a Wikipedia requested photographs in Biology using the in= parameter. I see this has already been used for non location sub-categories. Traveler100 07:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Technically we should probably do away with the capitalization of words like Biology and Science. Richard001 07:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Images, diagrams etc

To me it seems a bad idea to start by splitting things into diagrams, photos, illustrations etc. Often I just want an image, I don't care whether it is a photo or diagram etc. I would rather see all images treated together, perhaps with a colour code or something to show which are photo requests, diagram reqs etc if that is specified. Something like {{reqimage|category name|diagram=yes, photo=yes|Description of request}}. Multidimensional classifications are difficult, but I think this would be better in the long run. A description, as shown above, would also be a good addition to the code of templates. Richard001 09:25, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

Nevada

I don't know how active this project is but I am looking for a photographer in or near Henderson, Nevada, anyone here who can help or knows someone who could help would be greatly appreciated. IvoShandor 10:51, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

You'll be wanting the Wikipedia:Photo Matching Service, specifically this part. Hope you find some help there. --mikaul^talk 15:21, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Notice of List articles

Page(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me).

• List of basic photography topics

This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 19:08, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Template

Members of this project may be interested in using the Template:Infobox Digicam where appropriate. John Carter 15:54, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

true enough, thanks. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 22:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Slideshow?

Your expertise may be helpful in evaluating Template:Slideshow here. -- SEWilco (talk) 03:25, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs

I have been slowly cleaning this category up but it is along repetitive task. I notice there is a bot User:PhotoCatBot that would reduce this task somewhat. The owner appears to be taking a break. Those who know about such tools; is there a way to get this or a copy of it running? (I tried to read up on the topic of bots but it is not an easy subject to jump into). Traveler100 (talk) 16:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Movie Still or Stage?

I hope I'm posting in the right place. I was looking for some info on "Stage photography" but all what I found was movie stills photographer. Are the same? Is there any other definition for Stage photography that I'm not aware of? Thanks. --Dia^ (talk) 15:23, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

What exactly do you want to know? There's no actual genre, AFAIK, for stage photography, but there are articles like stage lighting, for example, which touch on photographic themes and approaches. You might find something appropriate to your search at the photography portal, or failing all that, someone here will most likely be able to help with a specific question or two. --mikaul^talk 00:54, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks mikaul for your answer. Stage photography is actually a genre in Germany and in Italy (and I suspect in all old Europe). My original question (maybe not so clearly written) was if the right expression would be "Stage photographer" or "movie still photographer" for someone for someone working as a "stage photographer" for the cinema.--Dia^ (talk) 20:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I think you have the answer right there: these are quite specialised fields & that's reflected in the terms people use to describe them. I know Cinematographers call them movie stills photographers to differentiate them from cinematographic photographers, but it's safe to say they do basically the same job as stage photographers, just in a rather less specific arena. Looking around, I can see the two descriptions are sometimes used interchangably, ie, stage photography being referred to as stills photography, but never the other way around.. "movie stills" is easily the more common term for the cinematographic job, at least in the UK/USA, and probably serves as such to cover stage photography in the encyclopedia. --mikaul^talk 23:48, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Introducing myself

Hi there, I've been doing more image work lately and some people suggested I connect with this project formally. I've had an account on Commons for over a year and became active there two months ago during the California wildfires. For the past several weeks I've been wading through the PD slush piles for potentially feature-worthy images that had been overlooked. My workshop for this project is User:Durova/Landmark images. Saying hello to the other participants here. Durova^Charge! 22:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Hi Durova, welcome and good to have you aboard. Certainly any feature-worthy material is always appreciated both here and at commons. In case you arn't so familiar with en.wiki, nominate at WP:FPC or WP:PPR (the peer review). cheers, -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 17:50, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Major rewrite of Sony alpha discussion

As A200 and A300/350 is out/about to be released, i have move A100 and A700 to separate article. And should we create A article called Alpha mount and list out lens produced by Minolta, re-branded Minolta, Sony-Zeiss and third parties lenses? Matthew_hk tc 12:41, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

And as a template, what do you think this one? User:Matthew hk/sandbox/Sony DSLR list Matthew_hk tc 12:42, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Looks good to me! --Kralizec! (talk) 21:37, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

CAT:SPEEDY

For some reason this page is listed for speedy deletion, but I can't find any tag on here which explains why? SGGH ^speak! 11:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, it's gone now, never mind! SGGH ^speak! 11:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Recent placement of prod tag on multiple camera realted articles.

I just want to point out that if the recent "{{prod}}" campaign by User:Mikeblas on the Sony Cyber-shot articles is effective that Nikon, Pentax, Minolta etc... may be next. I Think community involvement is very important on this issue. I posted the following message upon his talk page expressing my personal stance.

• I have no objection of the loss of a single article either way as an editor of one of the many articles you've randomly placed the tag upon. However I do have an opinion, and from the looks of your user talk page your no stranger to that. The opinion is as follows. A Merge and redirect campaign may have been more useful as a whole and would create less cleanup in the long run. Many of the articles you have tagged are interlinked to other articles, and what happens when an editor randomly clicks a previously deleted article red link, he gets that "your attempting to edit a deleted article" guilt trip message. This is discouraging to editors IMHO. This also re-creates articles which may not be as good as the original once was. I would also like to point out that unlike cell phones which have a user life of say 6 months to a year, cameras will always remind someone of a link to their past. Cameras are often passed along, collected or resold. In today's ever "green" market of recycle & reuse, articles such as the sony series you recently have decided are advertisements or un-notable are often the younger artists only resource to make better usage or buying decisions, Yes that would be advertising if the company still sold the item. Users often forget why they bought a specific model, or why they still have it, Wikipedia as a resource was once there to remind them, much like the way Cameras (unlike cell phones) Capture memories and the past.?Slysplace | ^talk 03:31, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

♫Slysplace | ^talk 03:40, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Panasonic Lumix digital camera AfDs

I don't see a deletion discussion listing in this WikiProject, and the {{delsort}} tag doesn't work for this project, so I'm posting this here.

Several Panasonic Lumix DMC series digital cameras have been nominated for deletion in Articles for Deletion discussions:

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panasonic Lumix DMC-L10

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7

— Becksguy (talk) 01:33, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Deletion discussion listings for Photography

Doesn't it make sense to enter a request for Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting to set up a deletion category for this WikiProject, for example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Photography. Currently, any deletion discussions have to be posted manually, both here (for want of a better place), and in the AfD discussion itself, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 for an example (rather than using the {{delsort}} tag). See the above section on Panasonic Lumix camera AfDs also. — Becksguy (talk) 02:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

More Demi Moore

I don't see any photograph articles listed at WP:FA. I hope to move More Demi Moore up the quality scale possibly toward FA and want to know what the best article is about a photograph. I am looking for something to model this article after. I imagine other photograph articles may be more technically-intense. However, I am not sure which direction to go.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 19:35, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Photographers needing articles

I created the following templates and the photographers have many redlinks. I am not sure if any of them are important photographers, but my perception is that inclusion on these templates should make them notable enough for WP:--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I suspect more of these templates will be forthcoming.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 01:55, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo of statue in santo Domingo...?

Hi, can anyone take photos of this statue in Santo Domingo, for the article about Antonio de Montesinos (Dominican friar)? The flickr photo is copyrighted... Thanks! Ling.Nut (talk) 10:06, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Scope of the project - all images or just the photographs?

There has still been no clarification or even discussion regarding the scope of the project. It seems to me as if it is about Wikipedia photographs, as the project name and most material/discussion here seems to imply. But it also says 'images' at the top of the project page. So which is it? I think this important distinction needs to be made. If this is just for photos, a broader project for all images (or even for all media in general) might be a good idea. Richard001 (talk) 20:48, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Definitely a good question. I could go either way on this, personally, but I'm fairly new to this project I can't really speak to the original intent. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:37, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I seem to recall some talk about this somewhere, largely pointing out that WP:WikiProject Illustration might be a better place to co-ordinate work on images in general, while WP:FOTO concentrate on specifically photo-related stuff. Given that the illustration project is even less active than this one, there's clearly an overwhelming lack of enthusiasm for any co-ordinated image work. That said, the WP:Graphics Lab seems to have taken up the baton of fixing up all kinds of images & is very busy indeed, while projects like WP:FPC are as popular as ever, again, for all kinds of images. Maybe this talk page is a good place to discuss anything of general interest to photographers, but in practice stuff just gets discussed elsewhere, leaving this page to be stumbled upon, largely by accident, every couple of months or so. As the History of photography project handles all work on photographer related articles, it very much seems like WP:FOTO is a project without a brief. --mikaul^talk 18:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Syntax referencing images from other wikipedia

Is it possible to reference an Image in say the German Wikipedia in an article in the Englsih Wikipedia (without copying to Commons or the English wiki)? If so what is the syntax? Traveler100 (talk) 16:50, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Do you mean use the image, or just link to it? You can use [[de:(Image name)]] easily enough, but I presume you want the image itself, which is impossible. If the image is fair use, upload it here. If it's free, upload at Commons and admonish the uploader there for not doing so originally. Richard001 (talk) 01:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Photo requests

There are two different circumstances in which one might request photos for an article: 1) Requesting photos be uploaded for use in that article , or 2) Requesting photos be added to the article from existing stock (of course, there may not be anything suitable, in which case this would default to 1). The template {{reqphoto}} is unclear on this, though it links to the uploading page with the word 'included', so presumably is exclusively for the former. So what about situations where someone just wants photos to be added to brighten up an article, when they are already available but perhaps the person just doesn't have time or doesn't know the syntax for adding images? The template also seems to imply the article is photo-less, yet some photo requests might be for articles which already have several good images, but another, unique one is requested. Richard001 (talk) 01:48, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Peer review for non-feature-worthy photos?

I see there is Wikipedia:Picture peer review but that seems to be for potential FPCs. Is there a forum when one can ask for help on posing, taking and polishing photos for a specific article (my specific need is ketogenic diet). If anyone can point me in the appropriate direction that would be great. Alternatively, if someone wants to leave me a message, I'll explain what ideas I've got for the article and am interested in your ideas. Thanks, Colin°^Talk 19:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

You can leave the specifics here, and hopefully people will respond. WP:PPR is another option, just say that you want photo suggestions and are not necessarily hoping to get an FP. I will certainly respond here if you are more specific about what you are thinking about for photos of that article. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 22:28, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

On the article talk page, I've put a bit more about what sort of ketogenic diet meal photo I'm considering. I've also mentioned a couple of possible variants for the test sticks and powdered feed. If you or anyone else has ideas of pictures for the article, how to stage and frame them, etc., I'd be interested. I see that a lot of photos of objects have a pure white background (e.g., Image:Salad platter.jpg). I'm aware I can tweak the levels and white balance in GIMP but since the items I'm shooting also contain a lot of white, I don't want to bleach them out. Any ideas on how to take such a photo so that it is easy to adjust. Outdoors or indoors? I only have a compact camera but I do have a bright halogen worklamp that could be used to light a subject. I've used paper as a background/base but is something else better? Thanks. Colin°^Talk 12:44, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

It's maybe worth pointing out that you can request a photo of anything you're not confident about shooting yourself. I'd be happy to shoot the food for you, for example, as it doesn't seem to call for anything difficult to source like the test strips etc would be. If you're ready and willing yourself, the best way to shoot white things is on a non-white background. Not just for the bleaching-out (which certainly is a problem, as you can see in that salad shot) but to stop your camera being tricked into underexposing (as you see on the shots already on the page). Your background just needs to be reasonably neutral and devoid of clutter / distracting elements. For convenience I'd recommend shooting everything outdoors, in the shade on a bright day, rather than struggle with lights. If it has to be indoors, point the light to an adjacent white or neutral wall or ceiling and bounce it onto your set. Use a tripod if you can. --mikaul^talk 17:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the good advice and offer. It will be at least a week before I can take pictures as I'm now without my camera. I have a tripod. Yes, if you want to shoot the food then that would be great as my skill and means are rather limited. I've added some more thoughts to the article talk page. Colin°^Talk 22:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Assistance requested

If a knowledgeable editor from the project could adopt the MedCab case Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-03-31 Nikon DSLR cameras, it would be most sincerely appreciated. Thanks! Vassyana (talk) 09:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Ongoing tasks.

I don't see a whole lot of activity of this page, so I was wondering how active everyone still is with the project. Personally, I've been busy categorizing Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Illinois into smaller categories by county. It's almost completed, but it took quite awhile. I got the inspiration from California and other states that are currently being worked on (or have already been completed). I've also begun taking more photographs for some of these locations. What else has everyone else been working on? Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 15:57, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I've been editing a lot of images already up, particularly correcting perspective and other distortions on every decent building image I see and switching them in. Mfield (talk) 16:39, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

I've been uploading a few images of New Zealand birds from Flickr; I've had luck getting photos for articles that had none by nicely asking the uploader. In terms of images (not just photos; see my request for clarification of the project's scope) I'm working on scans from PD literature, currently looking at uploading the pictures from Mr. Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Richard001 (talk) 10:23, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks to a very heavy RL workload I've been so inactive I almost missed this thread entirely. I've spent some time recently helping propose a new kind of COM:QI(VI) for the encyclopedia and fielding other proposals to allow some image contributors to have inline credits. Once I get some time I'd really like to inject some energy into the WP:VP project before it goes off the boil completely. The upshot of all my RL work is happily going to provide a bunch of new uploads. Just as soon as I get round to it. --mikaul^talk 18:22, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Requests for Pictures, Images and Photographs

For some time now a few people, including myself, have been tidying up the request for photographs and request for images pages and categories. The main goal has been to create some clarity to what requests there are on a particular subject. To this end categories of related subjects have been grouped together and articles containing lists of requests cross referenced to the categories. I have now however reached the point were a major change needs to be made and would like others views on the topic. Basically does the distinction between images and photographs serve any real purpose? I believe not and it is clear from the contents of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs and Category:Wikipedia requested images-other that most users of Wikipedia do not see the difference between an image taken with a camera and a general need for a picture in an article. It should not be forgotten that these categories and list are not there as a classification system for talk pages but to bring article to the attention people so that the request can be addressed. The current situation is that there are two main methods of making a request. One is to add one of a number of reqphoto/reqimage templates to a talk page; the other is to add an imageneeded=yes (or similar syntax to a WikiProject template). See the sub-pages of Wikipedia:Requested pictures for a reasonably complete list and Category:Articles needing images for a few examples . Both these methods have there advantages and limitations. The reqphoto template is useful in that people do not have to try and locate what projects cover the article in question; a complex, time consuming task. The reqphoto also has the advantage you can add more that one subject and location in a single step and once you know the syntax you can use it on many topics. One disadvantage of reqphoto is that some interpret it solely for camera photographs while other see it as any type of image (scan, screenshot, drawing etc.). The main disadvantage however is that the categorization of requests does not match those of WikiProject template image requests, leading to multiple places to watch and misunderstanding by many readers and contributors. The advantage of the WikiProject templates is that they are generally being managed by an active group of contributors; the request has a greater chance of being address, which is the real purpose of all these lists. The disadvantage of WikiProject method is that they are not easily accessible to occasional contributors, even if you find a relevant project it is not always clear if a template exists or not for an image request and what the syntax is. Often the resulting category is not even in the to-do list of the project page.

My assessment

• Both methods have their uses and should be kept but the confusing distinction between photographs and images needs to be removed,
• The main aim of these activities is to make it clearer to contributors what material is needed, and to provide images. Therefore there should be one clear location for requests on a particular subject, so that WikiProject active people and photographers that move around different topics find the same complete list.
• WikiProject template needimage=yes, reqimage and reqphoto should all create the same result.

Proposal

• Change the wording of reqphoto template to request for image.
• Change the destination categories from Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of/in … to Category:Wikipedia requested images of/in ….
  • or … articles needing images
• Make reqimage and reqimage-other same as proposed reqphoto
• Start talking to WikiProject teams to change the imageneeded target category to the same place as the proposed reqimage categories.

Questions

• Agree, disagree?
• Can you see any disadvantages to this proposal?
• How could we get from where we are now to an easier, clearer state?

Traveler100 (talk) 18:26, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

I agree that reqphoto and image-needed serve the same purpose. I had recently modified the {{WP India}} template to match the reqphoto categories. The template automatically categorizes the request at the task force level. For example, {{WP India|tamilnadu=yes|chennai=yes|image-needed=yes}} will categorize the article under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tamil Nadu as well as Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Chennai. Regards, Ganeshk (talk) 04:09, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

I created Wikipedia:WikiProject Graphics in hopes of resolving these issues, such as through the four templates listed at WikiProject Graphics request templates. Note how the four templates cover all the 25+ templates listed at Category:Image request templates. GregManninLB (talk) 23:09, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I am not sure the answer is more templates. One of the problems at the moment is that for someone for the first time looking how to request and image they are confronted with a confusing collection of templates. I was thing more of merging what already exists. Loosening the definition of what a photo is and making reqimage and reqphoto one template. Also making the results of the template match the image-needed=yes type entries in project templates. Traveler100 (talk) 06:37, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Reqimage has been depreciated since January 21, 2006, so I don't think we can modify it. It's "of" parameter doesn't work and the 25+ templates listed at Category:Image request templates cover all of its functions. GregManninLB (talk) 06:50, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Coordinates for Image/Photo requests

I basically agree with the proposal. I do think that keeping the simple reqphoto template is particularly necessary, to make it easy for editors to slap into a Talk page without studying the varying syntax of each Project template which might include an image-needed option.

Here is another suggestion: add an optional coordinates field to the reqphoto / reqimage template, and/or otherwise set up things so that, at the Category page for place-oriented categories, a map may be automatically generated which shows the actual locations on a Google map of all places having coordinates. This would greatly facilite trips to get pics. I myself have just printed out a Google map with sites in Santa Ana, California, in Orange County, California, that is obtained by clicking on "Map of all coordinates" from List of Registered Historic Places in Orange County, California. That provides me a list of all the Santa Ana NRHP sites, about 20 of them, and i will visit as many as i can when i happen to be in that area, someday soon. For these NRHP sites, all of the sites, not just those needing photos, are listed.

User:GregManninLB has attempted to integrate this map feature with the reqphoto feature somewhat. See, for example, Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Orange County, California, which includes a "Map of all coordinates" which you can click on to get to a Google map which is intended to show the sites needing photographs. However, the system is not working properly, it shows only 2 sites for the whole county and specifically does not show some sites that I know have "reqphoto" on their talk page and have coordinates in their article page. I don't know how the 2 sites actually get picked up into the map of coordinates.

Basically, do whatever it takes to generate actual maps showing the places that need photos, clickable to get to the wikipedia articles that correspond to the places. This seems to me to really offer potential to make the reqphoto system actually work in getting people out there to really take photos. doncram (talk) 22:59, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Parameters are easy to add to a template. Do you have an example of a template that uses an optional coordinates field? If so, we can use that to modify reqphoto. GregManninLB (talk) 06:52, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Being able to map where reqphoto are for based on the contents of a category would be a very useful tool for those of use who often visit areas we are not familiar with the names of places in the region. It does not need yet another parameter in the template, the place for co-ordinates are on the article page with the existing template for that task. I did last year try and attempt to do this but apparently there is an issue with the update the data that Google map uses for what is in a category. See Template talk:GeoGroupTemplate#only sometimes works. If someone can figure out why this is not working we have all the tools already in place. Traveler100 (talk) 16:13, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Ah, it's nice to know that we wouldn't have to put coordinates into the reqphoto, because that actually would be somewhat of a pain to do, duplicating coordinate info in the article already. Sad though that the GeoGroupTemplate is not working properly for categories though, that link to Template Talk is helpful in showing that. It's way over my head, about getting involved in data dumps from the English wikipedia, etc. I suppose we just have to wait for someone else to address it. Or, perhaps we could make a request somewhere, state the need / explain the purpose that would be served by fixing this as opposed to other complex programming problems that super-techies are addressing instead. I don't know where to go to express that kind of request though.

By the way, armed with printouts from a Google map generated from the GeoGroupTemplate on the List of RHPs in OC, I did visit Orange County, and was very successful in scoring a whole bunch of photos. It would have been impossible to 1/10 as productive without that printout. It would have been nicer still if I had a wifi with my phone service and some kinda PDA device, so I could have been navigating around with the Google map, live.... doncram (talk) 02:23, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Howtoreqphotoin in Category

The {{reqphotoin}} template is intended for location-oriented photos; asking for a generic photo of an ironing board does not require a location. Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York uses {{Howtoreqphotoin|New York|New York}} to emit instructions on adding a page to that category, and displays a GeoGroupTemplate box for display of the locations. There is a delay because it works from a copy of the database. -- SEWilco (talk) 05:55, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I was hopeful for a moment but in fact I believe the above comment provides no new information about the problem. The "Howtoreqphotoin" template just includes some text and the same way we were already discussing to display photos in a category. This way, as has been covered further above, is broken and/or not supported. So the New York example is an old page that did work, and does show a map of old photo requests, but the copy of the database it is based off of is not being updated and new requests for photos in New York will not be displayed. Thanks anyhow! doncram (talk) 02:42, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Commons announces launch of new Valued images project

The official VI seal

The project goes live for nominations on 1 June, 2008 at 0:00 UTC

This Commons Valued images project sets out to identify and encourage users' efforts in providing valuable images of high diversity and usability, and to build up a resource for editors from other Wikimedia projects seeking such images for use online. The project also provides recognition to contributors who have made an effort to contribute images of difficult subjects which are very hard or impossible to obtain in featured picture or quality image technical quality. The project will run alongside the existing Commons Featured pictures and Quality images projects.

Please visit Valued images candidates to nominate an image, or to help review the nominations. Anyone with an account on Commons is welcome to nominate images, and also to take part in the open review process. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:36, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Rename proposal for the lists of basic topics

This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.

See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.

The Transhumanist 10:15, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Replace this image text

Image talk:Replace this image.svg has text I don't like - "Do you own one" is too ownership centric - people don't have to be the owners of an image to upload one. I think we should change it to "Can you provide one?" (hopefully that won't encourage a frenzy of newbs uploading random images they found on the internet). Richard001 (talk) 09:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Been discussed before. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 13:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Photos of statues and buildings - FOP issue

In preparing to work on the article for Emmeline Pankhurst, I came upon the Freedom of Panorama template (which I had never seen before) on the image of this statue. So far as I can tell, FOP applies differently in various countries, and applies to any photo of buildings and/or sculptures in public places.

My question: How does this affect the use of such photos on the English Wikipedia? (I suspect this discussion has already been had – if so, perhaps someone can point me to it.) Since most English-speaking countries allow for FOP, do we assume that the photos are available for a free license (assuming the original work – in this case, the sculpture – is likewise eligible) and use them in our articles? Or are photos of buildings and sculptures generally less desirable now that FOP has been incorporated into our thinking about license? – Scartol • Tok 13:21, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I am not absolutely certain, but I believe that we respect both Florida law where our servers are, and the law of the place the photo was taken. Like I said I could be wrong about that. HIBC 15:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

FAR of Canon T90

Canon T90 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:05, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia announces launch of new Valued pictures project

The official VP seal

The project goes live for nominations on 10 November, 2008 at 0:00 UTC

This Wikipedia Valued pictures project sets out to identify and encourage users' efforts in providing valuable images of high encyclopedic value, and to build up a resource for editors from other Wikimedia projects seeking such educational images for use online. The project also provides recognition to contributors who have made an effort to contribute enyclopedic images of difficult subjects which are very hard or nigh on impossible to obtain. The project will run alongside the existing Wikipedia Featured pictures and Picture peer review projects.

Please visit Valued picture candidates to nominate an image, or to help review the nominations. Anyone with an account on Wikipedia is welcome to nominate images, and also to take part in the open review process.

The Wikipedia valued picture project has opened for nominations. Please feel free to nominate an image at WP:VPC today!

Elucidate ^{(parlez à moi)} Ici pour humor 17:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Category:Night-Sky Photography +-> Category:Astrophotography

Category:Night-Sky Photography has been nominated for merger into Category:Astrophotography 76.66.195.159 (talk) 06:08, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion - Create guide webpage for professional photographers who want to contribute images

After seeing some of the complications with the contributions from User:Jerry Avenaim, I realized that wikipedia currently is not a very user-friendly place for professional photographers to contribute any images they want to upload. If anything, a professional photographer seems to be generally discouraged from contributing their work. I believe that Wikipedia is missing out on a great opportunity to reach out to professional photographers that want to contribute and should try to make it as user-friendly as possible. Thus, I am suggesting that this project help create a page that would lay out the following: the advantages and disadvantages for professional photographers to upload their images to wikipedia; how to upload image to wikipedia; the advantages and disadvantages to claiming various licenses; how to authenticate your identity if you need to demonstrate that you own the rights to the picture; and wikipedia editors that may help you out if you have any questions and how to contact them. What do others think of this suggestion? Remember (talk) 16:30, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

• Sounds like a good idea. I wouldn't say I'm a professional photographer - more of an 'in between', making some money from photography but not on a full time basis. That said, I can sympathise with professional photographers and their concerns about controlling the use of their photos. Out of interest, what were the complications with Jerry Avenaim? I must have missed that controversy. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 18:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
• It is a good idea to keep all the information in one easy to locate place, especially since the pertinent issues that will cause the first time contributer problems such as CC licensing requirements, conflict of interest guidelines and where image credits should be located (i.e. not in captions) are all addressed in separate places that are not necessarily easy to locate for a first time contributer. This could all be summarized into a nice checklist of WP peculiarities if you will. A familiarization guide for what separates WP from normal/legacy publication methods. A list of points of contact would also be a good idea. As an established contributer and (semi) pro photographer, I would be prepared to be listed as someone to offer advice and guidance that I feel pretty well placed to offer. Mfield (talk) 19:30, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

I set up the following userspace page User:Remember/Sandbox as a place where we can create this page prior to posting it as an official page of the WikiProject Photography page. Please help make it better (cause I don't have that much time to do it). Remember (talk) 14:34, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

I think this page (User:Remember/Sandbox) now looks good enough to make it a WikiProject Photography subpage. Unless there are any objections I will do that. Remember (talk) 16:38, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, I have added the guide to Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Guide for Professionals. If you think this page belongs in another spot, feel free to move. Remember (talk) 13:19, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Out of interest regarding this: "Question:Why should I freely license my pictures (or music) so they can be used on Wikipedia? Answer: Because putting them on Wikipedia is great exposure". Should that really be the primary motivation? Wikipedia doesn't really encourage using it as a launchpad for external commercial sites... I guess the sales pitch probably doesn't have the same strength if the answer is "Because you want to donate your time and skills to a worthy cause". Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 15:37, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I did bring that up fairly strongly on the article talk whilst it was sandboxed, at that point it actually said "advertising" but in light of our discussion it was reworded to say "exposure" as it is a less provocative term in light of WP:SPAM and WP:COI. I still think the article was better focussed before it was reworded so as to (possibly over)simplify and push the emphasis that way instead of extolling the increasing importance of shared media and collaboration. I also think it may raise false expectations now. Mfield (talk) 16:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

I will defer to others on this, so feel free to revise.Remember (talk) 16:16, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Great news for war image collectors

The US army has just released 147 images from the Korean war into the public domain. The images are available here.

They have also released 40 videos (see this link).

←Spidern→ 16:57, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Input requested at Sunset

This is a bit of an unusual post but the lead image on Sunset is in need of an upgrade however there are a number of replacement candidates. Your input is requested at the discussion on the talkpage. Thanks --Fir0002 00:40, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Is this guy notable?

I came across this article: Tony Kelly (photographer). He's done a bit of news & magazine work. But is that really notable? Doesn't seem to have won any awards. No reliable online references.--Lester 19:44, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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Stamp out unneeded reqphotos!

Folks:

At the time of this writing, more than 50,000 articles on Wikipedia bear the {{reqphoto}} template, yet many of these articles already have photos or images. Some have had them for years, but no one has bothered to remove the photo request template.

This makes me sad. It makes it harder to maintain the categories of photo requests, and harder to identify the articles that really need images.

Therefore, I hereby call upon you, the editors of Wikipedia, to help me rid the encyclopedia of these unneeded requests!

I have instructed PhotoCatBot to search every {{reqphoto}} article for images and add any that it finds to Category:Articles which may no longer need images. That puts the most likely candidates for review in one place for easier maintenance.

Unfortunately, a bot can't remove these image requests automatically. Some of the "images" it finds may not satisfy the photo request; some of them are maps, some are icons, some are university crests. A bot just can't tell which is which most of the time.

Here is what you can do, dear editor:

• Browse Category:Articles which may no longer need images and check some of the articles to see if the photo request is still appropriate. If it is, remove the category; if it isn't, remove both the category and the template.
• Read the talk page to see if there has been any discussion about what kind of photo the article needs. If so, consider updating the {{reqphoto}} template with {{reqphoto|of=...}} to make it clear and explicit.
• Be conservative. If there is any photo at all on the article page, and no one has asked for a specific photo on the talk page, then remove {{reqphoto}} and Category:Articles which may no longer need images.
• Be sensible. If your gut says that the images on the article don't satisfy the photo request, leave the request alone and just remove the category.
• Be reasonable. If you remove a {{reqphoto}} and another editor reverts it, don't get into an edit war. Part of the point here is to clean up requests on articles that no one is watching. If someone cares enough about the article to keep the photo request, it's worth keeping.
• Always remove Category:Articles which may no longer need images after reviewing an article.

As always, comments, suggestions, brainstorming welcome! Tim Pierce (talk) 03:18, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Final of the Commons Picture of the Year competition 2008. Voting is now open

The finalists have been selected! Vote in the 2008 Commons Picture of the Year competition.
The final voting round to select the 2008 Picture of the Year is open now. Voting closes 23:59 UTC 30 April (Thursday).

WikiProject Images and Media

There is a new wikiproject afoot, Wikipedia:WikiProject Images and Media, for addressing issues with all kinds of images and non-text media. There has been some discussion there about whether it would be appropriate to merge Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography into that project. This project has been pretty dormant despite periodic attempts at revival, and I think it would not be a bad idea.

Please comment here or at the WP Images and Media talk page if you have thoughts on the matter. Tim Pierce (talk) 18:16, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Proposed changes to the Featured picture process

This star symbolizes the featured content on Wikipedia.

Please help determine the future of the Featured picture process. Discussions regarding the current issues affecting featured picture contributors can be found here. We welcome your input!

Maedin\^talk 18:39, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Optics FA drive

A 9x expansion of the optics article has been undertaken by ScienceApologist. Assistance welcomed to help raise it to featured article level. Best wishes all, Durova^Charge! 22:45, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Does this photographic technique have a name

Recently a set of photographs apparently showing the Russian Prime Minister drunk at the G8 summit was circulated in the media. By chance I happened upon this article in Pravda which discusses the manipulation which has been performed. Does this technique have a name (and a WP article)? __meco (talk) 07:58, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Not really manipulation in a photographic sense, more an unethical journalistic technique. As the distortion occurs in the selection process (not actual image editing) the relevant articles will be those related to journalistic scandal rather than photo manipulation.--mikaul^talk 08:26, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Well, that's true, but since chimping has been identified by its own name, I figured this practice, which has only been facilitated by modern digital video equipment and computers, might also have been given a name, thus enabling us to collate material on it for an article. __meco (talk) 11:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I know what you mean, but chimping is a behavioural byproduct of DSLR photography, rather than a technical term. The practice of continuous shooting that lies behind that journo incident is much older than digital photography and was just as common (possibly even more so) with film. Motor driven SLRs were around for decades prior to digital. As a result I'd expect any terminology describing the practice to be well-established and AFAIK there isn't any, other than say "burst mode" or "continuous shooting". Following this logic the (behavioural) use of a sequence of still frames is even less likely to have a common term. --mikaul^talk 23:25, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Name of 3D video imaging technique

I have for some time been trying to find the name of the digiral video technique whereby a large number of video cameras (for instance 13) are placed in circumference surrounding the object to be captured. After digital re-processing the images of the object can then be manipulated as 3D objects allowing for random angles and sequences of motion along random vectors circumnavigating the object, with the cameras digitally removed from the resultant video. __meco (talk) 08:03, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

It's called bullet time slow-motion. --mikaul^talk 08:17, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Much appreciated! __meco (talk) 11:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

What's missing from Outline of photography?

Here's a discussion about subject development you might find interesting.

The Transhumanist 23:48, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

Sigma Lenses template brokenness

The Sigma_lenses template has something odd going on...it appears at the bottom of pages, but the "view" and "discuss" links are red, and the "edit" page says there is no template by that name. I just created an article about the infamous Sigma 200-500 f/2.8...can someone tell me how to find the template so I can add this article? FlyingPenguin1 (talk) 19:56, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

Should be fixed now, looks like there was a typo in the template name - I had to find it by doing a search for it in the Template namespace and fix the typo. Camw (talk) 00:01, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Woo, thanks! It works now. FlyingPenguin1 (talk) 00:58, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Questions for the Project members

I'm in a bit of a quandary. I am associated with a theatrical company and was asked by a regular editor of the Shakespeare project to supply photos of Shakespearean characters, as they are sorely lacking. I did so, and was then accused by another editor on the Taming of the Shrew talk page of conflict of interest!?! So in trying to fulfill a request, I get jumped on. I can take the lack of good faith, but I did posit a number of questions here: [[1]]. I don't want to continue uploading photos if I am breaking some COI rule, so I was hoping for some clarification. I would appreciate some input on that talk page from some editors who are not personally involved on that page.

The photo on the left is the one I added, to replace the image on the right, which I did not delete, but moved down in the article to the section on "Text".

Petruchio (Kevin Black) and Kate (Emily Jordan) from a Carmel Shake-speare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew at the outdoor Forest Theater in Carmel, CA., Oct, 2003.

First Folio (1623) title page facsimile

Thanks in advance for any input you might provide. Please provide comments here:[[2]]. Cheers. Smatprt (talk) 16:08, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1 announced

It has been finally annouced after many a rumors. Well not sept 1 but on sept 2 --yousaf465 06:07, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Canon EOS 500D

the Canon EOS 500D is a camera and video camera right? like shoots video and stills? is it also a good quality video camera, I don't know enough technical babble to fully understand the article. IAmTheCoinMan (talk) 10:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

DSLR video is still a work in progress. While there are the benefits of a shallower depth of field and a higher quality than a traditional video camera, in some situations. However it does not capture motion or sound well. You may also find it hard to zoom and/or focus while filming with a DSLR because of its awkward grip. Video capable DSLRs won't be replacing camcorders any time soon. [SCΛRECROW]^{CrossCom 2.0} 07:59, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Popular pages

I have requested a list of popular pages for this project at [3]. --Ysangkok (talk) 15:47, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Photo critique needed

Could you please take a look at Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#UFO identification, and give some photographic critique on the insect pictures I've uploaded. In particular, some photos need cropping whilst others need a choice to be made between several pics of the same thing. Thirdly, please comment if these pics are actually needed, given the quality and abundance of photos already in the existing articles. Thanks. Zunaid 04:59, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Request for comment

on this ostrich picture at here. Thank you. Oda Mari (talk) 04:42, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Vivian Maier

Someone here may be interested in taking a look at Vivian Maier which could certainly need some improvement (I have nominated it for DYK).

I realize that it may have been premature to write this article before any major publication on her has appeared, but the story about the discovery of her photographs is interesting and has made the news in several countries. --Hegvald (talk) 19:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Photography to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 00:36, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

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