Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Panorama of Le Havre, September 2019.jpg

File:Panorama of Le Havre, September 2019.jpg, not featured

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A crop like this might work.

• Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#France
•  Info Le Havre, France, totally destroyed in WW2, was rebuilt from scratch by modernist architect Auguste Perret who turned the city into a concrete wonderland. In 2005, UNESCO inscribed it as a World Heritage Site. I took the picture aboard a cruise ship - hence the rather unusual perspective. All by me, --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:26, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:26, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support First time I've seen aliens announcing their arrival by landing a sculpture. --Cart (talk) 09:52, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Nice composition and execution, good job done! --Basotxerri (talk) 11:37, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but the light and sharpness are not so good. --A.Savin 12:56, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

• Well, the EF 24-105L isn’t the best Canon has to offer, true. It’s still decent imo. As for the light, I really disagree. You can’t beat a late afternoon sun. A little later and the shadows would become overwhelming, a little earlier and the light would be too flat. –Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:17, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

• I don't know the place, but all just appears washed out (including sky, grass, facades etc.) --A.Savin 13:44, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

• I've tried to carefully address the issues you mentioned without changing the image's original character too much, @A.Savin, Basotxerri, Cart --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:47, 6 October 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment I’d happily support a version with a bit less sharpening applied. This is overdone, just look at the person walking in front of the container arc. --Kreuzschnabel 17:29, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
  • Sorry, I just realized you uploaded a sharpened version, that’s why I’m saying the opposite of A.Savin :D That’s the problem of editing a nominee during discussion period. We’re talking of different images now. --Kreuzschnabel 17:32, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
    • Yeah, I definitely don't like the look of the current version. I'm not so impressed with the view either, though. UNESCO World Heritage or not, a lot of the buildings have an uninteresting sameness to my eyes, and I would oppose the photo as is. A crop on the right and left to encompass the church with the tower and the colorful sculpture and building with the clock tower might work. I'll try to mark proposed crops. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:29, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Lighting is not great, the facades are in shadow. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:48, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
•  Info Considering all (occassionally conflicting) suggestions is a tough job. But here you go, my "Director's Cut", if you will. Redeveloped and cropped. It's a different image now, so pinging everybody: Cart, Basotxerri, A.Savin, Kreuzschnabel, Ikan Kekek, King of ♥ ♦ ♣♠ --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:55, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

•  Comment Apart from the crop, the new version is hardly better than the old one. The sky is washed-out. Many of the buildings are overexposed. Do you sincerely think that if you shot a picture in poor light, you still can "synthesize" good light in Photoshop afterwards?

  And there is another question. Is the sculpture made of containers maybe too prominent in the picture? No FoP in France, you remember? --A.Savin 14:39, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

• No it's not. Not even 10% (probably closer to 5%) and the topic is clearly Le Havre's UNESCO world heritage downtown, so we can consider the "art" thing stands in the way. - Benh (talk) 16:27, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

•  I withdraw my nomination --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:07, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /MZaplotnik^(talk) 18:59, 8 October 2019 (UTC)