Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/SydneyOperaHouse

Sydney Opera House


The Sydney Opera House is easily one of the most famous buildings in the world and a great example of 20th century architecture. This picture is currently used, most notably, as the picture for the picture relating to stubs that are about Sydney geography and was origionally taken by User:Enochlau. I came accross it on the Sydney Opera House page origionally and was struck by its beauty. hi this is bob *Oppose reluctantly due to size and photo issues though it's a great subject and would be all for supporting a more suitable image of the opera house. Pegasus1138 Talk 04:55, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - Andromeda321 01:48, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment The Opera House is on an angle and there are some distracting clouds on each side of the building. GizzaChat  &#169; 02:37, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Slope can be fixed. I have the original file around somewhere. enochlau (talk) 03:51, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Would support, if it had a higher resolution and fewer artefacts. By the way: How did this huge list of file links get on the picture page? The majority of them do not really refer to the Opera House picture. Mikeo 04:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Because the picture is used on the template -Glaurung 07:39, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment. Give me a day to dredge up the original photo. It's on my other computer! It's originally much bigger. enochlau (talk) 08:43, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support now that the slope is corrected - Adrian Pingstone 10:13, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 *  Neutral Support - Until perhaps a larger version is found. Now that there is a larger version.--Lewk_of_S e rthic contrib talk 02:20, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Update. A larger version has been uploaded, and the sloping horizon has been corrected. Please note that I've deleted the copy on en, and uploaded the new version onto the commons. enochlau (talk) 14:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you also have a version available wich is not that highly compressed? The obvious compression artefacts in the sky ruin it for me. Mikeo 11:09, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That's the best I can offer, sorry. I took the original, rotated it a bit, cropped and then saved as High quality JPEG in Photoshop. Personally, I don't think there's anything abhorrent about the sky, but that's just me... enochlau (talk) 12:08, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. I don't know if I'm supposed to support my own image, so feel free to ignore this if you want. But here it is anyway :) enochlau (talk) 14:02, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support new version has allayed my previous concerns. Pegasus1138 Talk 19:48, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. This is a small issue, but I might crop it on the left so that there's no 'gap' on the left side. Jogloran 23:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support perhaps if the contrast could be increased by just a smidgen, and the brightness by a bit more than that. I've fudged around with it in Photoshop, and Brightness: 30, Contrast: 10 looks spiggin awesome Kewpid 02:30, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'll have a fiddle with it... enochlau (talk) 12:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I don't get why everyone's so gaga over this. am I seeing the right image? merely being a large photo is not ehough. the quality here is not great. bad focus, awful compression artefacts...much detail is lost. there must be a billion images of this subject out there. (ahem...) this one is definitely not the best. --Deglr6328 03:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Deglr6328. The SOH is an extremely iconic building. This is a nice pic and all, but it's not particularly stunning. It's just a straight-on perspective that looks like a ton of others out there.  howch e  ng   {chat} 18:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, I'm afraid. It doesn't show the SOH in its full setting: in relation to Sydney Harbour and the city skyline. --BillC 21:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, if it were a model it wold require a lot of airbrushing. Xtra 12:37, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Pegasus1138 Talk 17:55, 16 April 2006 (UTC)