Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Metropolitan Opera House (39th St)

Metropolitan Opera House (39th St)
Voting period ends on 4 Apr 2012 at 21:20:51 (UTC)
 * Reason:High EV, I'm not really satisfied with the quality, but it just got featured on Commons.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Metropolitan Opera House (39th St), Metropolitan Opera, Antonio Paoli, Josef Hofmann and Thomas Beecham
 * FP category for this image:USA History
 * Creator:Unknown photographer, restored by Mmxx


 * Support as nominator --  ■ MMXX  talk  21:20, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support -- I took a look at this at Commons but didn't weigh in. Nice image. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:13, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * There's something quite odd about it. The blacks in the aisles are so black, and there's maybe some lens distortion too: the people next to the aisles look like paper cutouts.  This is a newspaper shot and it probably was airbushed (I mean literally, not the photoshop tool) to look better in newsprint (see this picture, particularly the eyes, for the kinds of things they used to do).  EV is definitely high, as this is maybe the most important demolished theater in New York, and, though I seem to have a picture of the stage in my own collection, I haven't seen too many of the house (there are a few non-free ones on the internet, though, like this, so they exist).  I'm torn.  Chick Bowen 05:31, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Support The slightly off centre photographer position makes it feel a bit odd. JJ Harrison (talk) 12:04, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Support classic FP to me. Tomer T (talk) 22:01, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Chick Bowen. I agonized over this one. I know it's non-repeatable and has very high EV, but it's so highly edited and poorly exposed that I can't in good conscience support. Clegs (talk) 18:17, 2 April 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 02:23, 5 April 2012 (UTC)