Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Pic of Los Angeles, California

Photo of Downtown Los Angeles, California


I took this photo myself. I was driving in traffic last week. I tried to improve the photo. I like to know if this is a good photo of Downtown Los Angeles.


 * Articles this image appears in:Los Angeles


 * Creator:D climacus


 * Suggested by: David  |''' Talk 23:31, 6 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * Biggest problem is size and composition, its not really specifically showing anything. For me it doesnt illustrate what i would imagine down town LA to be. If u were on a bridge nearer the heart of LA and got a lot more in the image it may have more EV--  Chil dzy  ¤  Ta lk  09:55, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Agree with childzy. This doesn't have much encyclopedic value (EV) in Los Angeles. Makeemlighter (talk) 07:29, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry but I would have to agree with both childz and makeemlighter. The composition simply show a busy carrage way.  This could have taken place in any city with high rise buildings.  This image could have been improved if it was taken from a bridge or from above. This would have been a better choice  -- Tyw7  (Talk • Contributions) 09:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * BTW David you need to focus on some basic quality issues - I noted some at your FPC nom, and the same issues apply here. Both these images have had a significant tilt - you need to get your camera straight (perhaps use a tripod) or straighten the images in post-processing. You're also downsampling too much if you are serious about getting FPs - this barely meets size requirements and has been downsampled to just 158kb which will almost inevitably result in insufficient quality. To be entirely honest though you will be struggling to get FP quality images with this camera in any case, you would need to get something really good to compensate for the image quality, a generic shot like this would never have a chance. You also need to supply far better image page information (saying "New Photo for Wikipedia" is frankly useless), and you should be uploading to Commons. If you don't understand any of this just ask and I'll clarify further. And keep working on it! --jjron (talk) 15:06, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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