Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Oregon Convention Center Dusk

Oregon Convention Center, Dusk

Reason: About a year ago, I nominated a very similar picture that was also inferior to this one in many ways. Now, the previous picture wasn't bad I would say but this one improves on it dramatically. This image is bigger, has more real resolution, has much less image noise, is technically sharper, has a better crop, was taken at a better time of day, has fewer ghosts and is free of stitching errors (not the case with the previous picture). I think the subject matter is good and the composition is the best that is available.
Articles this image appears in: Oregon Convention Center
Creator: User:Fcb981

Support as nominator --Fcb981(talk:contribs) 23:53, 30 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support This is a huge improvement over the last version. The EV is there and it's very very sharp. I definitely enjoy the lighting and the blue cloudy skies. I have a problem with a 21mp picture being 13mb though I've made 40mp shots smaller sizes and the same detail. IMO at least it's a bit too big for the common user. Victorrocha (talk) 02:48, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I'd prefer a closer crop, removing the buildings on the left side and the cars at the bottom. Excellent picture otherwise. I don't really agree with Victorrocha's comment that the picture's file size is too big. FCs are not for the "common user" to see on a web page as such, so in 99% of the cases the user won't have to download the whole thing, but there will still be an option of making a very high-resolution print. Luca (talk) 06:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - I felt like the original had too much focus on the forground and not the background. The crop gives the image focus, in my view. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:25, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support either. Good EV and nice overall picture. I too disagree with Victorrocha's comments about the image size. Muhammad(talk) 14:08, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - Yeah, now the cropped version looks a lot better. Luca (talk) 20:14, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 Noodle Snacks resolved what I didn't like in the foreground. Fletcher (talk) 20:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support both well done. —αἰτίας •discussion• 17:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - The crop gets rid of the distracting foreground elements. Good job. Cacophony (talk) 07:00, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - The cropped photo impresses. 'Tis nice. Heat3000 (talk) 19:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support either, prefer crop Very nice. A shame about the ghosting, but it can't be helped. No drug deals going on this time...? Matt Deres (talk) 01:00, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I think the drug deals go down later at night. The previous picture was taken in the summer at (from memory) 10:30PM. This one isn't shrouded in enough darkness. ;-). BTW where's the ghosting that you see. I tried to minimize it this time by removing my UV filter and I don't see any. There is some exposure bleeding on the street lights on the LHS of the image but I don't think that is due to lens ghosting. FWIW. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 01:48, 6 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Oregon Convention Center Dusk 1 (edit).jpg MER-C 10:10, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]