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Info created and uploaded by User:Diliff - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:41, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Support - I'll be surprised if this is controversial: A beautiful church exterior by D. Iliff plus an excellent, unnoisy sky. The crops are fairly close on both sides because of the location of the church among other buildings on the place. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:41, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
Oppose Unusually for a Diliff, this composition doesn’t wow me. Quality is excellent of course but the busy foreground, which can’t be helped and is not the photographer’s fault, still keeps the wow off me. And I don’t find the shadows appealing. --Kreuzschnabel 06:47, 31 July 2016 (UTC)- Oppose Per Kreuzschnabel. INeverCry 20:06, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
- Support And not only because it is my own parish church... Such a picture of this church is very difficult to take, and the result is very good for me (foreground not busy at all...)--Jebulon (talk) 22:27, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks Jebulon. I agree with you, it's quite difficult to take a better image (maybe possible to have better lighting though) because of the parked cars in the street. As I said to Ikan below, I took this while standing on the Pantheon fence to get enough elevation to avoid the parked cars. And of course waited patiently for traffic to disappear from view. :-) With more visits and planning for the ideal lighting, it could be improved further but the angle and perspective of this image is probably close to ideal. A single straight frontal view will introduce too much distortion because you would need to get too close to the building in my opinion. Diliff (talk) 08:29, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose due to distortion at top, which I realize may be a byproduct of perspective correction, but it's still present. Daniel Case (talk) 18:27, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
- I didn't notice the distortion and still would have to have it spelled out to me for me to see it. But since this picture obviously isn't going to get the votes for a feature,
I withdraw my nomination. Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:10, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for the nomination anyway. I agree it's probably not quite at the FP level. The distortion is largely unavoidable though - most European churches are surrounded by nearby buildings and it makes getting the spire in shot impossible without significant distortion. I don't actually think the distortion is that bad in this image however, as I managed to get quite far back. It's less aesthetic though because of the off-centre composition, which the angle of the street required. I took the photo while standing on the fence of the Pantheon to avoid parked cars obscuring the view of the church. Exterior views are always tricky compromises with the environment. If you think the distortion on this one is bad, have a look at this one. :-) It's not possible to get any further back than this without a tree and office building obscuring the cathedral, but the tower is so tall (it's 87 metres tall and I think it's probably only possible to get 30-40 metres back from the front of the building so the angle to the top of the tower is 65 to 70 degrees) that it ends up being pretty disfigured by distortion. Diliff (talk) 08:25, 8 August 2016 (UTC)
