Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Oklahoma City National Memorial

When I first saw this, I was surprised this wasn't already a featured picture, but when I nomated it, I was advised by mikaul to sumbit here instead.
Articles this image appears in: Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City National Memorial
Creator: Kralizec!
Nominated by: — Noah¢s (Talk) 20:45, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

I think MickStephenson wanted you to nominate it here instead mainly because you nominated three different images; it's important to choose a single image that you think fits the featured picture criteria before nominating it. Picture peer review can be a good place to decide which image is best, or if any images fit the featured picture criteria. By "this" do you mean the first image? While it is of high resolution, the image is not of featured picture quality. For one thing, the horizon is not horizontal and all of the vertical things (corners of the buildings, trees, the chairs, the people) which should be vertical, lean to the left. So this would at least have to be straightened to be promoted as a featured picture. However, the sky is also blown, and the composition is not particularly impressive. While it is true that featured pictures don't have to be beautiful, they should be the most emotionally or aesthetically powerful image possible of a particular subject. The composition of this image detracts from both its emotional and aesthetic impact. As for the others. Image:Flowers_oklahoma_memorial.jpg is not eligible (it is too small; it is not of high enough resolution) and Image:Oklahoma_bombing_empty_chairs.jpg has fairly poor composition as well. Thanks for wanting to give kudos to these images, but I don't think any of them will be promoted to be featured pictures. Enuja (talk) 01:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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