Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn Interior During Service, Vilnius, Lithuania - Diliff.jpg

====== Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2014  at 09:38:06 (UTC)
 * Reason:It's a very detailed view of an interior that is actually very very difficult to photograph. The room's dimensions are very small (My camera was positioned almost out the window of the chapel, which stands above an arched gateway into the city of Vilnius). In addition to the physical difficulties, the chapel is also very frequently used for services and for praying at the altar, which makes it difficult to capture all the details of the chapel without people obscuring them. This view is similar to the nominated image but shows how it is often used outside of services. I think the nominated image is better though, because it shows the priest active in service, but he does not obscure the architectural details. It's an important chapel in Lithuania, a country that is currently underrepresented on Wikipedia, but hopefully my photo trip can go some way to addressing this.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
 * Creator:User:Diliff


 * Support as nominator – &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  09:38, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Just wow. This is bugging me though: how did you manage to HDR and get the priest without any ghosts (assuming this is HDR like the others). Leaves are driving me crazy. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 09:52, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Haha, I got lucky really. He was praying, so he stayed still just long enough to capture the bracket. There were 5 bracketed exposures ranging from 1/400th of a sec to 0.6 seconds. Because there's a big wide open window directly behind, it's actually not that dark inside. With many of my cathedral interiors, the longest exposure can be as much as 20-30 seconds which really makes ghosts a problem (although if they're moving fast enough, 30 seconds is actually long enough that you hardly notice them all - at most just a slightly darker or brighter smudge where they had been) so I generally try to wait until there's nobody in the frame. This has its own problems though, because a bracket of 5 images with the longest exposure of 30 seconds means waiting almost a minute in total, and what starts as a frame devoid of people doesn't necessarily stay that way for a minute. I often have to re-shoot ground level frames a number of times until the bracket is devoid of people. I try to be as efficient as possible though so if there are lots of people wandering around, I start with the ceiling first and hope that by the time I get to the floor, they will have gone elsewhere. If the floor is quiet, I'll start there instead. It's tricky, but it's just part of the job. :-) &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  11:09, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 *  Support - easy - there are no ghosts if you pray - Hafspajen (talk) 13:22, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support — Superb depiction of Aušros Vartų, a stunning religious shrine.
 * I do have a question: Having been there once (15+ years ago), I seem to remember that the background of the famous icon was black or maybe very dark brown. I've seen photos online that support this memory. Is the mocha-like color in the current nomination perhaps a result of cleaning? Sca (talk) 13:35, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Answer - Yes. It was cleaned. Hafspajen (talk) 14:09, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Sca (talk) 14:31, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Is it normal if I'm turning green with envy looking at this? --Muhammad (talk) 15:07, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * (I think I passed green about 4 hours ago). — Crisco 1492 (talk) 15:46, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, I rather think that (Oh, I got the joke side) - it is better to be happy about each and every valuable editor to tries to contribute with their own special talents - than being envious - envy is not constructive. Hafspajen (talk) 13:33, 26 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support-Wow--Godot13 (talk) 04:00, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - "Cloker" shoes? Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 15:06, 26 November 2014 (UTC).
 * I thought maybe they were Vans. Sca (talk) 18:24, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Haha - there is one thing priests never think about, so it seems - shoes. But when they are all dressed up, the only personal belonging that is left visible - it is actually the shoes. Hafspajen (talk) 03:45, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Support Yann (talk) 14:02, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Absolutely stunning. It is a little odd to lead an article on a painting with the context of the painting, rather than the painting itself, but, in this case, it seems appropriate. J Milburn (talk) 19:35, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:42, 5 December 2014 (UTC)