Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/New Court of Corpus Christi College

New Court of Corpus Christi College[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Aug 2014 at 21:04:15 (UTC)

Reason: High quality, high EV image. Already featured on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
Creator: Diliff

Support as nominator – Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 21:04, 18 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Oh go on then... Might as well. Judging by the more recent nominations, it'll need all the support votes it can get! Ðiliff «» (Talk) 12:17, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Lovely. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:07, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support helping with quotas ;) -Blieusong (talk) 18:06, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. To my eye, this picture does not look exactly straight, especially the gatehouse. It benefits from a very slight rotation anticlockwise. 86.128.3.186 (talk) 03:08, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support. So I take it this isn't in the only Corpus Christi I'm familiar with :) High quality, attractive photo. I opened the image in Photoshop and it appears to be quite straight -- it's the composition that is slightly off-balance. Not enough for me to oppose though -- I don't think we could expect anything better from the subject. Jujutacular (talk) 03:10, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, I think any apparent tilt is probably due to the lack of symmetry, not in the building itself (which seems pretty symmetrical to me) but the lighting, and the ivy only growing on one side. Is this what you mean by the composition being off balance? It's pretty much perfectly centred and apart from visiting when the lighting was overhead and casting no shadows, I'm not sure what I can do about it. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:34, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure whether it's an optical illusion or what, but almost the very first thing I notice every time I look at the photo is that doesn't seem straight. When I rotate the image slightly anticlockwise, the apparent tilt is corrected and the picture looks straight. Does it not appear tilted to anyone else? If not, then it must just be me. 217.44.214.6 (talk) 19:25, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the shadow and ivy is what I meant by the composition being off-balance. I do believe it is pretty much perfectly straight and centered. Jujutacular (talk) 13:47, 22 August 2014 (UTC)'[reply]

Support nice wide shot, did find it tilted at first but upon further examination the photo is fine. ///EuroCarGT 03:15, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I don't really know anything about architecture photography, but have played with Hugin a bit, and I'm wondering if the image would be helped by a projection that conserves the parallel horizontals a bit more. (Perhaps some setting of the General Panini Projection?) --Paul_012 (talk) 09:58, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It's funny that you suggest the Panini projection. That's exactly what has been used in this image already. Panini does bend horizontal lines when they are above or below the horizon though, but not as badly as cylindrical projection. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:56, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - Ah, I see. Support, by the way. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:01, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Corpus Christi College New Court, Cambridge, UK - Diliff.jpg ----Mdann52talk to me! 05:38, 29 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]