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We have very little sports photos as FPs which I guess is indicative of the (relative) difficulty in taking them. So for that reason I'm feeling a bit lenient towards the cut off hockey stick. But it seems as though a lot of texture (particularly in the face) was nuked with NR software - could you
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I'd go with Fir here, in fact I'd go with a noisy version in preference to the NR one; that's what sports shots tend to look like. I'd also point out that even as it appears here, if you view it at ca. 1600x1200 processing artifacts aren't an issue. It would be a pity to penalise larger uploads
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It is certainly not an action shot, but I was looking for an image which would fit nicely in to an infobox. Thus the lack of game situation, facial expression and etc, but hopefully it adds some EV. I think we can close this nomination since we don't have consensus, but I'll be back with more
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I really like it. I actually prefer to see the stick cut off where it is than to see the whole stick because when you do that you get too much open background which can be distracting. Its too bad wiki's release criteria is a bad as it is cause I would love to see more of your work on here.
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I just don't think this is a good shot of the subject, lighting doesn't seem that great, the subject appears to be grimacing, the hockey stick is cut off... --Pstanton 07:38, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
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didn't have much problem getting featured. However, the overall photo isn't terrific. Something went bad taking it, I believe, as the face just looks terrible.
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unprocessed version or a better noise reduced version. Definitely more pleasing textures.--
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