Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vallarpadam Basilica

Vallarpadam Basilica
Voting period ends on 5 Mar 2013 at 07:19:27 (UTC)
 * Reason:Sharp picture, Good EV, perfect lighting and full view
 * Articles in which this image appears:Vallarpadam Church
 * FP category for this image: Places/Architecture
 * Creator:Mydreamsparrow


 * Support as nominator --Mydreamsparrow (talk) 07:19, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Sorry, but the whites on the building at clipped. Also kind of small. -- King of &hearts;   &diams;   &clubs;  &spades; 07:28, 24 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Is it really effecting the picture ? Am not seeing a huge difference. Mydreamsparrow (talk) 07:31, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yea, the focus is the building, where all the details of it is lost due to blown highlights. — raeky  t  18:07, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Image is too small (the FP criteria requires 1500 px in width and height - this picture has only 808 px height). The highlights are blown too. The sky's brightness is not even (see image guidelines for panoramics). Also, I notice some artifacts caused by too much tone-mapping or the "details" slider in Photoshop (see the bright halo around the tree on the right of the basilica and a subtle dark shadow around the building itself). There is also some mild posterisation in the sky caused, presumably, by JPEG compression. It's a shame that the technical quality is not up to par because otherwise it is quite a nice composition. Purpy Pupple (talk) 21:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 07:26, 5 March 2013 (UTC)