Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Russian Village House

Russian Village House


This is a high-resolution picture showing the typical house in a Russian Village. This picture is well-shot and neutral, and is well used in articles. It will also tell people about the Russian culture if it becomes a featured picture.


 * Nominate and support. - GoOdCoNtEnT 18:25, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - and the car is also typical? ;P if seriously, nothing special, bad composition... Renata 18:31, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - how is the car not typical?
 * oppose i personally don't like the presence of that car--Vircabutar 02:34, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Not very sharp. Not a bad picture, but not a featured picture either. -- Tewy  02:43, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment - It is very common to park a car next to your house, and it's presence helps strengthen the picture's representation of the typical Russian rural home. I do not think that the prescene of the car should disqualify this picture from becoming featured. --GoOdCoNtEnT 02:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. A bit unsharp at full resolution, though this could be remedied by downsampling slightly and some judicious sharpening. It looks like it's tilted to the left as well, though it's difficult to determine whether that's due to the camera actually being tilted, the position the photo was taken from, or the house being a bit off-square. I like that it isn't oversaturated, but overall it comes across as a typical snapshot rather than FP material. -- Moondigger 05:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not too fond of the composition - dead in front, including the fence and car. Would be more interesting from the side, rear...something! Also I'm always a little wary of these "typical" shots - who says it's typical? Where is it? Russia being the largest country on earth, "Russian village" isn't telling us a lot. Maybe just a better caption would help, like "A house in the Russian Village of x, built in the 1920s style of y, as evidenced by the z. The Mitsubishi whatever is typical of many Russians' new affluence" or whatever. So it's not just "some house somewhere" but actually has encyclopaedic value, so we could put it in articles about Russian architecture alongside other photos of houses from other eras or whatever. Stevage 11:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The subject is obscured by trees, the image is tilted and not sharp.--JyriL talk 15:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose Shadow on/over subject, tilted horizon, doesnt contirbute anything to the article Village Gnangarra 09:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

-- Moondigger 02:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)