Vertical replenishment, or VERTREP panorama

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 18 Aug 2010 at 02:10:37 (UTC)

Reason: A pretty striking composite picture of a vertical replenishment. Second nomination, first nomination.
Articles in which this image appears: Vertical replenishment
FP category for this image: Aeronautics and aviation/Military
Creator: U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class John L. Beeman

Support as nominator --— raeky T 02:10, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I think Durova's comment in the previous nomination explains this picture quite well. "I am a former US Navy Photographer's Mate, after all. The operation being documented here is an underway replenishment--which is one of the most dangerous evolutions two ships can perform. Getting a good shot of a helicopter during vertrep is not easy (I've tried it); but to get as much of the operation as this within a single pano is incredible. Obviously there's distortion; there has to be. I've never seen a composite like this attempted before. Highly encyclopedic, and within the physical constraints of the setting it's quite a photographic accomplishment." — raeky T 02:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support *ouch* I learned something on Wikipedia because of a talented photographer. Greg L (talk) 02:37, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amazing photo. I'm going to guess you were reading up on VPC history when you found this ;) Jujutacular ^talk 02:45, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Um... I nominated it last time? :P — raeky T 02:47, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ugh lol I'm embarrassed. I had remembered it from reading through all the VPC MFD drama and didn't even check back to see the original nominator. Jujutacular ^talk 02:53, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per myself last time. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:05, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, this gotta be one of the most ridiculous acronyms. Well, I'm off to HORREST, horizontal resting. Yeah, that's another concept so complicated that I maybe should make a composite pano to illustrate it. --Dschwen 03:15, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Now that I'm vertical and replentished again: oppose per Noodle snacks. Gimmicky picture (and certain people will stop reading here...) that is technically neither very impressive, nor very well done. Idea is nice, but the wavy horizon (hills again? no.. wait.. "Where I live there are plenty of waves on the ocean", haha, very witty. Sigh.) and the cut off helicopter are completely unnecessary. Furthermore it reminds me of that airport runway nom we just had. Do we need a wide pano with a bent ship and nine frames of helicopter to illustrate this simple concept of movement from A straight to B?! The perspective is not great either, with the foreground consisting of a couple of nets and the destination (or source ship... yes, where the hell are the goods moved from and to?!!) flight deck unrecognizable. --Dschwen 16:15, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just to point out the "wonkyness" of the panorama is nothing abnormal, most long panoramas are like that, and "bend" the straight surface where your at, either a bridge, road, or in this case a ship. And to point out Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Buildings_along_Chicago_River that nomination that noone complained about the bend bridge, is FAAAR more wonkey in this regard then the ship is. I think if you go through our Panorama FP category you'll see plenty of bent foregrounds far worse then this. So to oppose on the wonkeyness alone is a bit silly. As for the other technical faults, I refer you to our resident experts comments about these kind of pictures above, Durova, who stated in her career of being a navy photographer shes never seen anyone attempt a panorama of this evolution before. This isn't something you see every day. It clearly shows whats going on, the helicopter picks up a load from one nearby ship and flys it over to another ship. As she states this is the most dangerous maneuver two ships can do at sea. — raeky T 18:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
    - Anobody opposing based on wonkyness alone? No? Ok. So who is being silly? The bent ship is not the most bothersome (but just consult the runway nom if you insist on those opposes being silly). The bent horizon is completely avoidable and should not be broken like this in an FP. --Dschwen 18:30, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, eyecatching, very encyclopedic, illustrates the process very well. --Golbez (talk) 15:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support per my support last time... And Greg should like this cause of his stop stare click obsession! ;-) hehe Gazhiley (talk) 17:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Just noticed you already supported! Gazhiley (talk) 17:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: stunning panorama, far more encyclopedic than a static photo, really interesting to boot. bahamut0013^words _deeds 11:59, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Slightly nausea-inducing, but has very strong EV due to its educational value and the technical difficulties as discussed above. Nick-D (talk) 11:53, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support -MBK₀₀₄ 01:48, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:VERTREP Composite Pano.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:07, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]