Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rippon Building

Ripon Building in Chennai
Voting period ends on 24 Mar 2013 at 02:30:43 (UTC)
 * Reason:It has good clarity, high encyclopaedic value and is already featured on commons.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Administration of Chennai, Architecture of Chennai, Chennai, Chennai Corporation, Local bodies in Tamil Nadu
 * FP category for this image:Buildings
 * Creator:Planemad


 * Support as nominator --BNK (talk) 02:30, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Neutral I need to look at this tomorrow with fresh eyes, but right off the bat, I wish for slightly more room at the top (the crop is too tight up top) and some columns seem almost blown out, but I need to check. Some of them seem skewed slightly too. Nice picture otherwise, though. – Kerαu noςco pia ◁ gala xies 09:29, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose - The sky on the left side is blown, the building is not level. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think the sky is blown at all; there's some clouds, but there's plenty of detail in them. For clouds, anyway. Also, the building is at most 10 pixels or so off of true horizontal from one side of the building to the other, which is about three tenths of a percent. The sign is VERY tilted, but that's reality; the verticals are decent; I think there might be a fairly small amount of perspective distortion, but that's not unexpected in a panorama. On the whole, I really cannot see your points. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:52, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Sanyambahga (talk) 06:57, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Given the above mentioned issues, would it be out of the question for me to ask you to elaborate on your support reasoning please? If nothing else, to help me in evaluating and voting on this picture... Thank you... gaz hiley  10:39, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Support per my comments above. I'm afraid Crisco messed up their analysis here. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:57, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Neutral I am inclined to support because of the high encyclopaedic value and interesting architecture, but there are some technical deficiencies: the image is quite oversharpened (notice the white halo around the antennae/lightning rods); the right side of the building is still very soft despite the sharpening; and overall the composition seems slightly off-center... there is more space on the left than on the right, and the sky unfortunately looks quite different on the left and right sides of the image (although I agree with Adam that it is not blown at all). dllu (t,c) 22:38, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 03:30, 24 March 2013 (UTC)