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Consensus to change Richard Shelby portrait

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Requesting consensus on the lead image for Richard Shelby. Based on Curbon7's reasoning, the 2011 and 2022 images suffer from being too zoomed-out (something I don't disagree with) which in my view doesn't facilitate clean half-crops. Instead, close crops of the head and neck area must be used if a clean cropped portrait is desired. However, the current lead image is not high quality, being only 478 × 598 pixels in size.

For me, I think going back to the uncropped 2011 image, where Shelby still looks surprisingly spry, fit and unwithered at 76, is alright. The zoomed-out aspect isn't exceptionally problematic in my opinion - I can still tell what Shelby looks like from a brief look. SuperWIKI (talk) 06:43, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've been thinking about this for a few days now. I do quite like the uncropped 2011 portrait. For a full-body political portrait, the shot composition and background noise is quite good. While I think for shoulder-length portraits tend to be more encyclopedic (ex. Richard Nixon), the color in the 2006 one is quite muted, and it is of lower resolution. Curbon7 (talk) 07:04, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. I only updated the 2022 one briefly because it happened to exist. The 2011 one has been there for years, anyway. SuperWIKI (talk) 07:15, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]