Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/224th Flight Unit An-124 with 2 Su-27s

An-124 inflight with 2 Su-27s[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Nov 2011 at 00:03:35 (UTC)

Reason: Is a great visual representation of part of the flyover for the 2010 MVDP, and is of high enough quality that the viewer isn't left wanting for more detail
Articles in which this image appears: 2010 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Antonov An-124, Flypast
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air
Creator: Commons:User:Bushman787

Support as nominator --Russavia ^{Let's dialogue} 00:03, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Very nice image. JBarta (talk) 02:10, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Nominator says it all. High resolution, very sharp, and free. Impressive contrast between the jet and the fighters. Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:08, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm a little worried about the scale. The jet should be 69 meters long, the little ones 22 meters long, but from this photo the little jets appear smaller than 1/3 the big one. Or is it just me? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:29, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The Su-27s are flying on the starboard side of the Ruslan, so they appear smaller due to being further away from the camera. Russavia ^{Let's dialogue} 18:58, 26 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I share these concerns. And by them both being further away it only makes the effect worse. I feel it's almost, if not entirely accidental misrepresentation. JFitch (talk) 01:20, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Personally I didn't give that aspect of the photo much thought. To me it was just a nice photo of a few planes in the sky. I feel confident that there are no alterior motives at play here... just a snap of a few planes in the sky... and a nice one at that. Though, if you want to think in terms of relative size, the photo does well capture the "beefy-ness"" of the larger plane. And that adds to the image IMO rather than detracts. JBarta (talk) 04:26, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Just to put this idea of relative size to the test, I made a mockup enlarging the jets to match the scale noted above (69/22). The result is not that much different. So the original photo is perfectly realistic given the jets are at least several meters futher from the camera than the larger plane. JBarta (talk) 06:50, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The image is very crisp, and does a good job presenting the jet. Chris857 (talk) 03:58, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support nice cropping, good angle (it'll be preferable if the Flankers are on the port side), and the image is really meaningful. --Sp33dyphil © • © 09:59, 29 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support the image isn't prominent in any of the articles, so the EV isn't as strong as it could be. Pine^talk 02:18, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 12:55, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]