Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Gol Gumbaz

Gol Gumbaz


This is a picture of the Gol Gumbaz, a historical monument in Bijapur, Karnataka, India. I took the picture during a family trip and have released it to the public domain. I am nominating it here because I think it is an excellent, high-resolution picture, and it is historically important for its famous whispering and multiple-echo galleries.


 * Nominate and support. - --ashwatha 05:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Very blurry, has less actual information than a sharp photo from my Canon A40. Maybe a focus error? -- antilived T 06:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not sharp enough for FP, leans could easily have been corrected in a graphics editor, and lack of contrast on the shaded face. But I like it! - Adrian Pingstone 08:41, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose due to image blur. It looks either like a focus error, or it was taken using digital zoom. -Advanced 16:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Weak support Agree with Advanced. Pic was probably taken with digital zoom.  It's a very nice and imposing pic, so can someone with photo editing skills please sharpen it?  Will give full support if sharpened.   Jumping cheese  [[Image:Misc-tpvgames.gif|18px]] Cont @  ct 08:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose for blur, not cenetered, angled. It is really cool though... just some technical problems.  If you go back, take another shot :) gren グレン 13:11, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Advanced. Noclip 16:17, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Here's my attempt at altering the image. I rotated it a bit, and sharpened it. It's not too much better; I'll abstain from voting. → &ensp; J A R E D &ensp;(t)&ensp; 19:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - image quality is irretrievably poor, there's just not enough detail present for sharpening to have any effect. Edit is marginally better but still not up to FP standard for an architectural subject. --YFB ¿  23:42, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: Ok, it looks like I need to learn a lot more about photography; thanks to everyone for their feedback. I don't have the photo-editing skills to sharpen this, so I will leave the nom here for a couple of days to see if someone can work a miracle. Otherwise, I will withdraw my nom. Thanks again to everyone for the valuable feedback. --ashwatha 03:30, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Re: comment. It is a great image, just not so great a picture! I like to take a bunch of digital pics at once of the same thing on different settings, and weed out the bad ones later. That may be a good idea if you're looking for FP-quality pictures. → &ensp; J A R E D &ensp;(t)&ensp; 20:39, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

--YFB ¿  14:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)