Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Olympic Road Race Womens winners, London - July 2012.jpg

London Olympics Womens Road Race[edit]

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Reason: It's certainly not a pixel-perfect portrait, but given the very challenging conditions (poor lighting and heavy rain), I think it's a pretty successful photo of a subject that we have little quality photography of, and this is a fairly prominent event in the cycling world - The Womens Road Race at the London Olympics. The photo is taken in the closing stages of the race and focus is on the middle rider and eventual winner, Marianne Vos of the Netherlands. The rear rider, showing fierce determination is British Lizzie Armistead, with Russian rider Olga Zabelinskaya leading them into the closing stages. Water is flying everywhere, pouring down from the sky, and spraying up off the tyres of the bikes. Lighting them from the rear is the official's car just out of frame. It was understandably a tricky shot to get as I had just a split second to lean past the crowd, try to avoid waving flags/heads/arms getting in the shot, then frame, pan and track the cyclists as they passed by, and hope that they focus stayed locked in.
Articles in which this image appears: Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's road race and Lizzie Armitstead
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Sport
Creator: User:Diliff

Support as nominator --Ðiliff «» (Talk) 01:29, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support I prefer more lead room; but convinced by your argument "to avoid waving flags/heads/arms getting in the shot". Why not add to more important articles like Road bicycle racing or Bicycle racing? JKadavoor Jee 06:55, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- When you say more lead room, do you mean more space on the right side of the frame? This can be accommodated, there is a bit of space available that I chose to crop, but there is an official in fluorescent green standing there which I thought was a bit distracting. I'll upload it as an alternative. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 11:58, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yes; I prefer it (alt) even though the fluorescent green is a bit eye catching and her look on you is a bit distracting. JKadavoor Jee 16:47, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support good image, looks dramatic Mediran ^{talk|contribs} 10:39, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support original - The yellow jackets in the foreground (of Alt 1) and background work to draw your eyes away from the bikers, which of course should be the main focus of the image. This is a very good shot, though, particularly under the circumstances. Hersfold non-admin^(t/a/c) 18:43, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support, very nice use of focus, makes you feel like you're right there alongside them. — Cirt (talk) 00:04, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support either (slight preference original), very nice sporting shot. Chick Bowen 04:43, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support both, I would go for the original, although I don't mind Alt 1 – the yellow jacket on the right tends to balance out the one on the far left. —Bruce1ee^talk 07:08, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support original This is a highly dramatic photo with lots of EV. I find the yellow jackets in the alternate distracting, though it's also a fine photo. Nick-D (talk) 08:51, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support both, prefer alt. ■ MMXX ^talk 23:02, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support both can't really decide, but I am leaning towards supporting the original. Their yellow jacket is a little bit distracting.--Tomcat (7) 11:24, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, the second yellow jacket in the alt is off-putting. Bencherlite ^Talk 19:09, 5 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Olympic Road Race Womens winners, London - July 2012.jpg --Julia\^talk 21:27, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]