Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St Mary's Yatton south porch

St Mary's Yatton south porch

 * Reason:High resolution, decent lighting and perspective; interesting subject.
 * Articles this image appears in:Church porch, Church of St Mary, Yatton
 * Creator:NotFromUtrecht

--jjron (talk) 08:15, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support as nominator --NotFromUtrecht (talk) 19:14, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support There's undoubtable EV here and detail etc is really good. I'm a little concerned that the very slight variations from the vertical and horizontal might be down to Hugin and not the vagaries of 15th century architecture, ground settlement, etc. I find the lighting a little too high-key and the crop a little too tight, but they're less major concerns. --mikaultalk 20:25, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It's certainly not the case that the proportions of the building itself are perfect: for example, I'm pretty sure that the roof actually does slope downwards from right to left, and that the angel carving is slightly off-centre. Beyond that, I can't see anything here that one might attribute to perspective/stitching distortion. As for the issue of the tight crop, I did the picture like this because there is a lot of clutter surrounding the porch: gravestones, a large churchyard cross, the church tower, and overhanging branches. The current version is cropped as widely as my set of pictures permit, although I might be able to go back and reshoot it. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 08:46, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I went back and have done a second version. I tried to do it lower key lighting, as well as sort out the cropping issues. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 17:59, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak support I think its a great picture and I echo the comments above, it needs to be a slightly larger crop, is this possible? --  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  00:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Support ALT --  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  23:23, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 * oppose both. Uninspired composition, way too much downsampling (window grating just looks odd). --Dschwen 14:20, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comments. I didn't resize this image for any specific artistic reasons, but simply because working with large files makes GIMP very unstable on my computer. In this case I agree with you about the downsampling, so I'll persevere and try to replace Version 2 with a bigger image. I like the composition, but I respect your decision not to! NotFromUtrecht (talk) 15:03, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That's great to hear, thank you. But your problems with GIMP surprise me a bit. What kind of computer do you have that GIMP is giving you a hard time with images above 5MP? My machine at home has only 512MB and I'm working on 50MP images there. --Dschwen 15:08, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * It's a two year old Dell Inspiron laptop, with 2GB memory, fairly decent dual core processor and Windows XP. I've found rotating, cropping and perspective distorting images in GIMP the worst. A big image (say 40MP or so) would have maybe a 40% chance of breaking GIMP if I tried to perform one of those tasks. Saying that, I've updated it to version 2.6.7 now, and have had no problems so far. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 07:07, 10 September 2009 (UTC)