Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Carcasssonne vieux pont.jpg
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This panoramic view shows the restored fortified city of Carcassonne and the Pont Vieux crossing the Aude River in southern France.
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- Nominate and support. - Jplavoie 11:23, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support. Beautiful! The resolution is spectacular, the composition is excelent! This is what a featured picture should be!--Pharaoh Hound 11:55, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Support Great job Jplavoie! --Fir0002 www 12:22, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Spectacular. I wonder how the picture taken by the guy on the bridge turned out. bcasterline t 12:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. A nice shot! --Janke | Talk 14:06, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support nice. chowells 14:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support, though artistically I don't like the compositio that much - is it a picture of the bridge or the fortified city? I find it hard to know where I'm looking exactly. Stevage 18:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Although I do wonder what this would come out like as a thumbnail on the front page... it's stunning (and enormous) at full size but I think it's going to be very difficult to see what's in the image at first glance - the fortifications are very indistinct in the thumb. --Yummifruitbat 22:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support - Oh wow, so that's what Carcassonne looks like. --Cyde Weys 23:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Beautiful. I like the composition, which adds a lot of interest for the eye. It needs to be shown in the article in as big a format as possible, possibly stretching right across the page. With this amount of detail, it has got to be the result of a stitch of several tripod-mounted time exposures. Can we have some technical details, please? --Surgeonsmate 04:27, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Technical details. Yes your right Surgeonsmate, the picture is actually made of 15 tripod mounted portrait shots stitched together using a Digital Rebel XT (8Mpixels). The resulting file is massive! Of course, I used a fixed aperture for constant depth of field, fixed focus and a common white balance and exposure between each frame. The scene was a real beauty and being new to the location, I didn't expect the old bridge to be there and that was a nice surprise! In fact my goal changed at that point to show the medial city at night and the bridge with the help of the panoramic format. - Jplavoie 10:31, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support - a beautiful image.Flymeoutofhere 16:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support This is stunning, makes me want to read the corresponding article! - Pogoman 17:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support beautiful picture, interesting details Mikeo 17:21, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Strong Support sensational. Anonymous_anonymousHave a Nice Day 17:39, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Stunning color, great detail.--Dakota ~ 05:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Fortified support. - Mgm|(talk) 09:50, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
- Strong support. Excellent. howcheng {chat} 16:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Support ahah, fortified support. this is a very striking image.. i like it, and those are some cool trees. who knew those grew in France? drumguy8800 - speak 03:34, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Fab. U. Lous.--BradPatrick 04:35, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Oppose. Does no one else see the awful artifacts in the sky? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 15:52, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- OK, on different LCD monitors it does look different, but the artifacts are still there. I'll try to upload a "boosted" image to illustrate my concern. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 17:33, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support Alright, I see the artifacts, but the rest of the image is stunning enough to cancel them out. --Lewk_of_Serthic contrib talk 21:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
- Support, I usually don't care for panoramas but this one is an exception. -- BWF89 03:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)