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Wikipedia:Picture peer review/William Gibson 60th birthday portrait

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Portrait of acclaimed novelist and cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Taken during a promotional interview for the French release of his novel Spook Country in Paris on March 17, 2008.

Professional photograph, of a high technical standard and resolution, depicting a very notable encyclopaedic subject.

Nominated by
Skomorokh 20:41, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • OK, since no one else will comment... I find these hard to judge - it's a pretty reasonably photo, but personally I prefer colour for Encyclopaedic value, however some recent successful noms have been along the lines of this. I also feel it could do with a bit of a crop at left. OK, beyond that, some concerns that could come up is that it is a bit noisy (covered up a bit by it being in B&W) and possibly with some minor jpeg artifacting, and the focus is not quite right (if you look closely it's a fairly narrow plane of focus, and the focus is at about his ears, rather than where it should be at his eyes). But famous people shots like this tend to get a bit of an easier run at FPC than many other images so that would work in its favour. Perhaps worth a try. --jjron (talk) 09:26, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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