Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall

I nominate this picture because I believe it is an excellent picture of Hadrian's Wall, both aesthetically pleasing (especially if one looks at the sky, the patches of forest and the general color scheme) and encyclopedic, showing a fairly intact stretch of the wall. I admit I created this image (summer, 2007) and am rather proud of it. Currently it appears in History of England, Roman Britain, Hadrian, Hadrian's Wall, Vercovicium, and Roman military frontiers and fortifications.

Nominated by: Jamesflomonosoff 20:25, 2 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

This is a fantastic image! However, I'm concerned about the blurry foreground at the left and especially at the right of the image. Also, I think the composition suffers on the left from the corner of the wall being cut off (where the man is standing). Do you have a image that includes more of that corner? Something where there isn't blur on the edges of the frame? I must say, whether it gets to be a featured picture or not, this is a very niceimage. Enuja (talk) 02:04, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- This is the only other picture I took in that direction (see The other alternative->) Jamesflomonosoff 03:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The first certainly has a much more impressive composition. Enuja (talk) 04:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Two questions: Do you think it could look any better with a bit of the bottom cropped to hide the blur? And do you think either of these pictures has a chance at being a Featured Picture? Jamesflomonosoff 05:07, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You'd have to crop the bottom to get rid of the blur on the left and you'd have to crop the right side, getting rid of the corner & the man in the corner in order to get rid of the blur on the right. If you just cropped the bottom, you'd have to get rid of the entire foreground wall as even the tippy top of the left foreground wall is blurred. With the crop, depending on how the composition comes out (I've covered sections with paper, and am undecided), the image might have a very slim change of becoming a featured picture. Have a look at current featured landscapes and architecture to get an idea of the expected quality and impact for a featured picture of this type. Enuja (talk) 05:21, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How's this? Sagredo^Discussione? 05:00, 7 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How did you do that? --Malachirality (talk) 07:40, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't know how little digital editing was allowed at the time. This took a lot of distorting (stretching) of sections of the image and clone stamping to build a new section of wall from what was already there. Mostly I just wanted to see if I could do it and get it to look OK. I didn't second it for that reason Sagredo^Discussione? 17:18, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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