Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Dubai airport DXB terminal 1.jpg

Dubai airport DXB terminal 1

Reason: Good quality and EV. Taken handheld at night at ISO-800 but I think it turned out pretty good. The best quality image at the airport article.
Articles this image appears in: List of tourist attractions in Dubai, Dubai International Airport
Creator: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

Support as nominator --Muhammad(talk) 15:34, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Off center and not crisp enough. Subject can be rephotographed easily, so I have to oppose here. Nezzadar ☎ 16:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Its not possible to get a properly centered view, there was some larde obstruction. --Muhammad(talk) 02:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Nezzadar, and it's too busy.158.158.240.230 (talk) 19:17, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Whoops. That was me...WiiWillieWiki 19:18, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- You are looking at one of the busiest airports in the world. Should I have told them all to clear out before photographing? I think that would have decreased the EV --Muhammad(talk) 02:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose edit - the guy on the escalator on the left is kind of creepy without a face. Guest9999 (talk) 04:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Some may find it more creepy that he could appear on Wikipedia's front page without having given his consent. But I'll stop discussing this at this point, the legal aspects of it have been looked into, and more legislation will presumably follow at some point. Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 10:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Not every featured picture has to appear on the main page, in fact there's a list of those that likely never will at Wikipedia:Picture of the day/Unused. Guest9999 (talk) 12:17, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Regardless, the dude is in a public location with no expectation of privacy. See Commons:Commons:Photographs of identifiable people. Whether you want to make an ethical argument, however, is a different story, but there is no legal restriction to this AFAIK. howcheng {chat} 17:32, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - The man on the escalator is very much a focal point of this image, and he's poorly lit. Dilemma is you can't really lighten him without making him the actual focal point. Xavexgoem (talk) 00:12, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion Miami International Airport is also one of the busiest airports in the world, but at 7:30 P.M. it's empty of most everyone but the employees, and everything is fully lit. Try going back at an off peak time. Nezzadar [SPEAK] 22:53, 28 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- This was taken at midnight. --Muhammad(talk) 00:42, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I may be going crazy but is this really what FPC has become? A couple of new guys shooting down an image? I put this image up at a professional stock image website and it was reviewed as being of the top 5% of images submitted there. So thanks for the comments guys, but withdraw --Muhammad(talk) 00:41, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Don't bite the newbies. The image has issues, and long time users say that. I had a bunch of nominations shot down too, and I didn't take it out on the community. Grow up. Nezzadar [SPEAK] 04:20, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted -- Nezzadar [SPEAK] 04:23, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did this because the nominator withdrew the nomination. If someone sees this as controversial, feel free to rubber stamp the decision or tell me to back off at my talk page. Nezzadar [SPEAK] 04:23, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]