Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gemini Residence

Gemini Residence[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Aug 2013 at 14:51:52 (UTC)

Reason: High EV and good quality
Articles in which this image appears: Gemini Residence
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Bob Collowân

Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 14:51, 14 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Looks pretty decent. Like all the detail. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:53, 16 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This picture gives the impression that the upper storeys slightly overhang the lower ones. Is that the case in reality? If not then it is somewhat misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.146.108.14 (talk • contribs) 17 August 2013‎

As you say, it is an impression only resulting from the slightly too tight framing, and because our eyes are stupid. --ELEKHH^T 07:38, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure it's because our eyes are stupid. In my opinion it is because, from this apparent position, the top of the building would naturally appear to be slightly narrower, due to perspective effects. Because there is no such narrowing in the picture, we assume that the building actually widens slightly, which would be a correct assumption in a real-world situation. 81.159.111.248 (talk) 10:47, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Note that perspective control is common, and has been so far considered acceptable at FPC. --ELEKHH^T 00:03, 18 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think that adjusting the perspective is OK when it corrects a camera artefact/limitation to create a natural-looking aspect, but when it breaks the natural perspective, and makes things appear distorted, I think it is a mistake.* However, I am not a technical expert and it is not clear to me whether this photo has been "corrected" or is simply taken from a greater distance than appears, at which distance the perspective effect would naturally be less. 86.160.217.67 (talk) 13:08, 18 August 2013 (UTC) *Unless done deliberately to create a special effect, of course. I am talking about pictures that are supposed to faithfully document the subject.[reply]

Actually in this picture the upper storeys do overhang the lower ones by about 5 to 10 pixels. picture. It appears to be a pincushion distortion. dllu (t,c) 04:34, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support Nice picture with good lighting. It also provides a good level of detail and EV. Weak support because of the tight framing. --ELEKHH^T 07:38, 17 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:54, 24 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]