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Strong support Per others. Great photojournalism, and it's good that we have something like this as a free image. I love the determination and immediacy that come out in full-res. Daniel Case (talk) 05:38, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Good but CAs and the focus seems to be on the man in the water (but it's ok for the boat). Lacks strength in the composition to be a really good photojournalism/reportage image => QI. Completely off topic: it's interesting to note that there are only three women and three children visible on that boat.Sting (talk) 20:57, 26 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
CommentSting Please show me where is the CAs in order to correct them. During raw process I tried to minimize any CA. But the lens used, Nikon 50mm/f1,8 usually don't give CAs. In this boat were around ~150 people, and the majority of them where families with women, kids and also babies. I you want to see demographics (men/women) of refugees influx you have to search for specialized reports. This boat (it is not visible) it is overcrowded inside with people.. and usually women and babies are travelling inside. For example in this video [4] you can see scenes from an inflatable boat arriving to Greece. All the women sit down, in the middle of the boat, "for safely reasons" and visible in the footage are only men sitting at the edge of the boat. But you can see also a kid there 00:35. Ggia (talk) 11:31, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for those information! I indicated now the few visible CA by annotation. I slightly modified the text of my vote above because it might be misunderstood: it's not the few CA or the focus that make me consider your image not as a FP but as a QI, but the composition. Sting (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I tried to upload a more enhanced version. Yann I agree partially with the comments of Sting. May-be this photo is not a good candidate for a Word Press Contest.. but neither the majority of the featured pictures here will get a National Geography award if they will be nominated to a corresponding contest. From the composition point of view I like in the foreground the man with the yamaha life-jacket rising the hand, the man swimming and in the background the overcrowded with people boat. This photo has enough technical quality but the most important is the content/subject. It has high EV, it enough descriptive and making it a featured picture will make it appear in the front page of commons (and may-be more people will be aware about the refugee issue). Ggia (talk) 15:38, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Info I just uploaded a photo of the same boat, one minute before this scene. The nominated photo is shot 08:35:17 and this one is shot at 08:34:07. Ggia (talk) 20:45, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I agree too: easier to understand what's happening. Just reduce the saturation, it's too high imo. May be a little sharpening? Sting (talk) 22:50, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Info created by Ggia - uploaded by Ggia - nominated by Ggia -- Ggia (talk) 22:54, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Support check also [1] or [2] or [3] - this boat on the news.. -- Ggia (talk) 22:54, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Oppose --Good but CAs and the focus seems to be on the man in the water (but it's ok for the boat). Lacks strength in the composition to be a really good photojournalism/reportage image => QI. 
Comment Sting Please show me where is the CAs in order to correct them. During raw process I tried to minimize any CA. But the lens used, Nikon 50mm/f1,8 usually don't give CAs. In this boat were around ~150 people, and the majority of them where families with women, kids and also babies. I you want to see demographics (men/women) of refugees influx you have to search for specialized reports. This boat (it is not visible) it is overcrowded inside with people.. and usually women and babies are travelling inside. For example in this video [4] you can see scenes from an inflatable boat arriving to Greece. All the women sit down, in the middle of the boat, "for safely reasons" and visible in the footage are only men sitting at the edge of the boat. But you can see also a kid there 00:35. Ggia (talk) 11:31, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
