Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The Brazen Nose knocker

The Brazen Nose knocker

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Original – Brasenose College, Oxford is said to be named after this door knocker, which was removed by a group of disaffected members in the 1300s and only returned to the college in 1890 after the college bought the house on which it hung. The knocker now hangs on the wall above the High Table in the college's dining hall.

Alt - Version with minor cropping as suggested by GRuban.

Reason

An eccentric historical door knocker which played an interesting part in the history of the college. This has clear EV in illustrating the etymology of the name and is a worthy artwork by itself. As far as I know this is the only freely image of the knocker readily available.
I'll be the first to admit there are shadows under the woodwork, but given the restrictive lighting situation in the college's dining hall and the extreme curliness of the leaf things I think they would be difficult to remove.

Articles in which this image appears

Brasenose College, Oxford, History of Brasenose College, Oxford

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Others

Creator

BethNaught

• Support as nominator – BethNaught (talk) 19:18, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
• Comment. I think it would be useful if the caption explained where the knocker is mounted, as it does not seem to be on a door. Also, the connection (if any) with the plaque in the background (which is slightly distracting) is not very clear. 109.157.10.216 (talk) 20:17, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I tried to minimise the plaque (which captions a portrait not seen in the photograph). In the end I chose between getting a face-on view and excluding the plaque. I have explained the location now in the caption. BethNaught (talk) 20:36, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

How about just cropping a few pixels off the top, so the text "William Smyth, Founder" disappears? Then it becomes less distracting. --GRuban (talk) 21:38, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support – Cool! (Agree with GRuban re cropping off name.) Sca (talk) 21:59, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

I considered that, but decided against because I have seen people complain about too-tight cropping before. However, I have uploaded an alt version which has been cropped and I agree, I think the plaque is less distracting now. Thanks, BethNaught (talk) 22:04, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

• Support. alt. Sca (talk) 00:19, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
• Reluctant oppose It's not a particularly big image, and, as such, I think it has too much noise in the image. I like the idea of promoting this, but is there any way you could get a better camera for it? Because you can clearly take a well-composed photo of it, so it's just camera quality holding this back. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Is it me, or is the image not quite straight? Look at the lines of moulding on the wall at the bottom of the picture (higher on the left than on the right) - rotating 1 degree anticlockwise fixes this, I think. The "mouth" of the knocker is very dark and we lose nearly all the detail in that area. I think this would add up to an oppose, but I'm not a technical picture person so I will refrain from making bolded comments here. Bencherlite^Talk 16:06, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Very nice.-Jobas (talk) 19:27, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
• Slight Oppose Well-composed photo but it would be a far better pic, as Adam mentions with a quality camera and perhaps a strobe to enhance the depth of field. talk→ WPPilot  04:09, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:22, 12 February 2015 (UTC)