Featured Products: Images Not Displaying Correctly

[Oncilla]

I'm having some issues getting the images in my featured products module to display correctly.

My uploaded product images are all the same size (215 wide x 170 high), and I've set the dimensions accordingly in the homefeatured.tpl file, but my images are displaying with a massive white border/area. I just want them to display in their raw state, how I uploaded them.

Here is the code I have in my .tpl file;

getImageLink($product.link_rewrite, $product.id_image, 'large')}" height="170px" width="215px" alt="{$product.legend|escape:htmlall:'UTF-8'}" />

And here is how my images are displaying;

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/5210/sneakerlab1273542303721.png

As you can see, there is a large amount of white space. I want my image to completely fill the white area (and it should, as it's original dimensions fill that area.

Any help is much appreciated!!