Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Befreiungshalle at night

Befreiungshalle[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Jun 2014 at 08:40:07 (UTC)

Reason: Good quality and high EV, Commons FP. Illustrates well the lighting there at night.
Articles in which this image appears: Befreiungshalle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Richard Bartz

Support as nominator – Tomer T (talk) 08:40, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Not sure about the off-centre composition, but otherwise well taken and good control of the light. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:42, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — It's certainly striking in terms of light & contrast, but do the stone walls really glow like that? (Also, the usual questions about perspective and apparent tilt.) Sca (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- They don't glow, they're artificially lit by incandescent lights not visible. It seems fairly obvious that stone walls don't glow. ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:51, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Also, what usual questions about perspective and tilt? You need to be more specific about what you see as potentially wrong, otherwise we're only guessing at what you might trying to say. I don't see any perspective or tilt issues though, personally. The building itself appears to lean inwards slightly, as evidenced by their walls not being vertical, but the poles and stairwell around the building being exactly vertical. That's a strong suggestion that the building's walls are indeed leaning inwards, and is not a perspective issue. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:57, 1 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Ðiliff: I realize stone walls don't glow by themselves, and that these are illuminated. It just seemed to me that their illuminated color was perhaps unnaturally intense.

It also seemed to me that the structure appeared to tilt a bit to the right — but maybe not. The daylight pic at right seems to show a similar tilt, apparently due to perspective. Sca (talk) 13:37, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The daylight pic is taken from a very sharp angle below and therefore exhibits a huge lean inwards, but that isn't tilt. In any case, it's probably better to actually measure the tilt before suggesting there's an issue with it. Visual perception is frequently flawed. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 14:49, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the daylight shot was taken from an off-center vantage pt. Either that, or the camera was tilted & image not straightened — steps are not parallel to bottom of frame. Sca (talk) 15:22, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it seems clear that the daylight shot was taken just right of centre, because there is a vertical line in the horizontal centre of the steps that would be vertical (and centred) if the photo were taken along that axis. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 15:31, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Quite striking. — Cirt (talk) 16:30, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - per Diliff --Godot13 (talk) 00:55, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:02, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Striking image. Sca (talk) 13:39, 2 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Befreiungshalle Kelheim BS.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:22, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]