Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun

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Original – Wernher von Braun, the first director of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and designer of the Saturn V rocket.

Alternative – Wernher von Braun, 1960

Alternative 2 – von Braun standing in front of Saturn V's Rocketdyne F-1 engines, unknown date

Reason

This is an illustrative portrait from May 1964 of an immensely important 20th century scientist. The models behind him are of the Saturn rockets.

Articles in which this image appears

Wernher von Braun, Jack Parsons (rocket engineer), Space Race

FP category for this image

People/Science and engineering

Creator

NASA

• Support as nominator – JJARichardson (talk) 20:58, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment — Focus not very sharp and colors have that faded Polaroid look. I suspect there are better likenesses of von Braun available, such as the apparently official portrait (albeit B&W), below right. Sca (talk) 21:56, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

• Comment I belive in 1960 colour photos were quite rare. Hafspajen (talk) 22:16, 11 January 2015 (UTC)

• Oppose - Highlights are blown. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:23, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment I have added 'Alternative' to the other portrait for those who prefer it. JJARichardson (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support alt. — It's a big enough file and at least it clearly shows a face with character. (Both photos dated 1960.) Sca (talk) 15:25, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose alt: There is something terribly off about that photo. There's a halo around him; I think it may be the historical equivalent of photoshopped. I'd far rather have some authentically-blown highlights from a period when such was considered a bit artistic. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:41, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
• Support alt. Alborzagros (talk) 10:26, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose alt This is obviously fake and looks very strange. Perhaps useful to illustrate early retouching, but as a portrait not acceptable to me. --DXR (talk) 12:44, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment — To be honest, I don't really like either one. Sca (talk) 18:57, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
• Comment: I have added a third option which is featured on the Commons. JJARichardson (talk) 20:56, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
• The third option is already featured here! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:24, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose first two but Support the third - The first picture has an annoying halo and the second picture is aesthetically displeasing. The third is the best of them, since it shows von Braun's chief accomplishment - rockets -DUCK404 a (talk) 04:46, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose all I can't support scientist-as-hero type photos of someone who was involved in some of the very worst aspects of the Nazi slave labour program (of which Wernher von Braun#Slave labor only scratches the surface): they fundamentally violate NPOV. Nick-D (talk) 10:27, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:59, 21 January 2015 (UTC)