Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:A scene from chickee in Keitaku-en.jpg

File:A scene from chickee in Keitaku-en.jpg, featured

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•  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Laitche (talk) 21:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Laitche (talk) 21:46, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment Please explain a bit better what I am seeing here. Saffron Blaze (talk) 23:03, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
  •  Done --Laitche (talk) 05:25, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
  • It's a Japanese garden scene through a window from the Keitaku-en chickee. There are four window panes and window was opened so there was no window glass on the center part but two each window glasses both sides, and the window panes are very old then a bit distorted. --Laitche (talk) 05:25, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose And if you have to be asked to explain what it is we're looking at and why we should care, it's not doing its job. Plus I don't see much that's truly striking about the image composition. Daniel Case (talk) 04:59, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
• I partially agree with Daniel so  I withdraw my nomination --Laitche (talk) 05:50, 22 September 2013 (UTC)--Laitche (talk) 15:16, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
  • Thanks all of you, okay I unwithdraw please continue voting :) --Laitche (talk) 15:16, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent composition and beautiful picture overall. The simplicity is stunning and the picture demonstrates very well what the visitor of that garden would see. So, for me it's quite obvious why we should care :-) And Daniel, please take into account that in other parts of the world, norms and expectations around feedback are different. Your comment comes across as very harsh. Thanks, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 12:08, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

I apologize for the harshness of my comment but I'm still not changing my !vote. See below. Daniel Case (talk) 03:45, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, Daniel. I really appreciate it. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

•  Support per Frank. I like the simplicity of the composition. --Kadellar (talk) 12:20, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
  •  Comment I like both but I'll support the alternative. --Kadellar (talk) 10:41, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support per above. Latiche, please unwithdraw. Tomer T (talk) 12:41, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- I find this very compelling piece of work and my question was just to confirm these are indeed windows to an actual garden. Amazing really. Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:55, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Joydeep _Talk 17:56, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support per above --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 21:07, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose Not a very big wow to me, and a lot of space that's black only and has no information. darkweasel94 21:32, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

What I really should have said. Daniel Case (talk) 03:45, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Negative space and natural framing are other kinds of interesting compositions in photography. --Kadellar (talk) 12:27, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

•  Support Though I'd be tempted to crop out the top line and hide the vertical line in the bottom, to simplify the composition. Colin (talk) 21:36, 22 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Info Fixed the lens distortion and cropped, if former version is better I will revert. The vertical line in the bottom is a part of detail (Light to shine through the gap.) so it can't be removed. --Laitche (talk) 04:26, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Reminds me File:Vista desde la torre de observación, Parque Estatal Brown County, Indiana, Estados Unidos, 2012-10-14, DD 07.jpg; but wins my heart, this time. :) JKadavoor Jee 05:50, 23 September 2013 (UTC) See alt.
•  Oppose Big wow for me, great composition, but there are small clipped bits all over the place and it is just generally overexposed. The underexposure is perfectly fine, it's part of the composition, but the overexposure isn't imo. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 07:13, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Agree the garden is over-exposed and if the raw is available I would suggest experimenting with locally reducing it there. One counter-argument might be that if one's eyes are adjusted to the dark room, then the outside will appear over-bright, though only for a short while till they adjust. Colin (talk) 08:31, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

• Thanks for the comment Julian. I know it and that's why I hesitated to nominate this, I don't want to partially adjust to this photo so if this one is not featured then I would like to take it again in the same composition in cloudy day or winter season. --Laitche (talk) 14:24, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

• That would be absolutely perfect and you can be certain of my support then. Although I don't see any problem in partial adjustments here, I respect that approach. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 14:42, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

• Okay I uploaded another version and nominated alternative, you maybe like it. --Laitche (talk) 22:19, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

•  Support --Pudelek (talk) 13:45, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Info Reverted crop. (Distortion is fixed) --Laitche (talk) 20:12, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Info Another version, the overexposure is better than the first nomination. --Laitche (talk) 14:32, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche (talk) 22:19, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Either, but this is better. Saffron Blaze (talk) 22:46, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support I like both. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:27, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Kadellar (talk) 11:31, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 11:51, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Ivar (talk) 18:37, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Prefer this. JKadavoor Jee 04:13, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support You know what? Now I see what you were looking at. I'd still crop a bit from the top and bottom, but it looks a lot better this way. Daniel Case (talk) 05:25, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
  • （＾＾） Laitche (talk) 15:37, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --AmaryllisGardener (talk) 20:37, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Prefer this. -- Colin (talk) 09:28, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Joydeep _Talk 13:26, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Poco² 18:44, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural

The chosen alternative is: File:A Japanese garden scene from a chickee in Keitaku-en.jpg