Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Phipps Conservatory winter 2015 Broderie Room.jpg

Broderie Room at the Phipps Conservatory
Voting period ends on 5 Dec 2015  at 08:41:29 (UTC)
 * Reason:High quality picture which illustrates a part of the Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, a famous greenhouse in Pittsburgh.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
 * Creator:dllu


 * Support as nominator – dllu (t,c) 08:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak Support Perspective issues in the bottom corners, and the highlights are a tad blown - mainly on the front-and-centre flowers and a few of the hanging stars . However, not enough for me to Oppose. gaz hiley  09:31, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The flower are clearly not blown out. Have you tried inspecting their pixel values? As for the lights, making them any darker would make the image look unnatural since they are supposed to be quite bright and the primary source of illumination. For reference, here are the three exposures I used to generate this: -2 EV, 0 EV, +2 EV.dllu (t,c) 09:45, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * They are almost blinding sorry - no detail on a lot of the leaves. In comparison to all the other flower beds they are positively glowing as if a huge light is shining directly on them... The ones at the front I don't know exactly what colour but I assume a creamy colour? gaz hiley  11:19, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've recovered the details in the flowers. Do you mind taking another look? And yes, there are indeed several little spotlights shining on them, which you can see on the roof. Do note that you have to refresh a few times (or add ?action=purge or at the end of the URL) in order to see the changes, as mediawiki tends to cache pictures for a while. Thanks again! dllu (t,c) 11:34, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * So you have - excellent. Much better - therefore I now Support gaz hiley  12:02, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * By the way, what do you mean by "perspective issues"? I see no perspective distortion issues -- that is, all architectural vertical lines are vertical in the photo. If you mean that the corners appear stretched, it is because this lens is an (almost) perfect rectilinear lens which has the side effect of stretching corners for super wide fields of view. But, because it is the only type of lens to preserve straight lines, it is undisputedly considered the best type of lens for architecture photography (as opposed to fisheye lenses, which have lots of barrel distortion). dllu (t,c) 12:48, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes I mean in the corners - but it's not enough to affect my vote, the lighting was the main issue for me, and that's sorted now... gaz hiley  16:38, 25 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Support – Yann (talk) 11:12, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support --Tremonist (talk) 15:33, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support - A little bit of ghosting, but nothing too bad. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:40, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Support – Jobas (talk) 16:50, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Per my reasoning at Commons, this cannot be a free image. Daniel Case (talk) 23:31, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 09:01, 5 December 2015 (UTC)