Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St Pancras Railway Station

St Pancras Railway Station
Voting period ends on 23 Dec 2012 at 18:34:24 (UTC)
 * Reason:A solid picture of a notable railway station, with good resolution, quality and EV
 * Articles in which this image appears:St Pancras railway station
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Colin


 * Support as nominator --Tomer T (talk) 18:34, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose I was reluctant to comment in order to see what other people thought first. The classic feature of this railway station is Scott's Victorian Gothic front, which is a hotel but also serves as an entrance. This view shows the front and all of the original station side and just a small amount of the glass building that is an extension to the rear. As such I think the EV is very high and it deserves its place as the lead image. But in order to capture all this, from just across the road, the wide angle of view makes the perspective extreme. There is no place to capture from further back without blowing up the Barclay's bank behind me. Two distracting elements are the brown temporary portacabins above the Costa coffee (now replaced by a sculpture) and the Sainsbury's lorry blocking the view of the lower street-level front (though this is such an extremely busy road that this is hard to avoid). There is a huge amount of detail in this hi-resolution shot, which is why I think it is useful and valuable despite any perspective issues. -- Colin°Talk 14:36, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Traffic is also a pain, in this case the large truck is obscuring some of the front facade. And those people in fluorescent yellow don't make the street scene look better. But the image well captures the corner, and is much better than all other images of the station we have. Perhaps in winter when the foliage is gone, and maybe on a Sunday with less traffic a better view of the main facade is possible. -- ELEKHHT 00:38, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I went there on a Saturday morning (which is my day for a lie-in - what sacrifices!) but it didn't help traffic. The busses are constant. Yes Sunday might be better. It also needs a morning shot, carefully timed, so the sun shines on the facade. The building looks dull in overcast sky. Too early or too late and there are shadows all over it. I'm taking the picture from a bus stop, hanging out near the road edge to avoid the bus shelter roof appearing in the picture, but not too close that the wing mirror of the next bus takes off my head. Ultimately, though, I'm just too close to the building to get an appealing perspective. Most folk just take a shot of part of this building, but I wanted the whole thing for the EV. Perhaps if I can climb on the roof of the bank? Where's my Spiderman costume... Colin°Talk 08:13, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeh, these guys must have done something like that. -- ELEKHHT 08:40, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Their verticals aren't perfect and it looks stretchted at the top and compressed at the bottom. There's no getting away from the laws of physics - such a large building (both horizontally and vertically) needs to be photographed from further away. Theirs shows the shadows creaping up too. I think I did pretty well given the situation. Once they finish rebuilding Kings Cross station (which is just to the right), I'd like to get up that clock tower to see the view from there. Colin°Talk 10:29, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Reluctant weak oppose per the issues pointed out by Colin. I want to support this so much but I just can't. Cat-five  t  c   13:23, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

-- Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:54, 28 December 2012 (UTC)