Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:2018 Niederwalddenkmal symmetric ks01.jpg

File:2018 Niederwalddenkmal symmetric ks01.jpg, featured edit

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Info all by me. Think I’ll give it a try. It took some persuasion effort to get the clouds arranged that dramatic way around Germania, but eventually, they did ;) -- Kreuz schnabel 22:08, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Kreuz schnabel 22:08, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Very nice but needs a perspective correction. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:44, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Technically, there's no distortion at all - just optics doing its job ;-) ... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:14, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for your comment. I am fully aware there is considerable keystone distortion from looking upward relatively steeply to a high monument at short distance. There is no way to step further away (except flying a drone over the steep vineyard in my back). Correcting the keystone would distort the monument itself considerably, so I chose to leave it that way and keep the "upward" impression. --Kreuz schnabel 09:15, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support In this situation I think a perspective correction would do more harm than good. Cmao20 (talk) 20:45, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Booth sift 04:53, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Cmao. Daniel Case (talk) 20:06, 1 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Rocky Masum (talk) 10:24, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 14:55, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:59, 3 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Wow is limited, perspective correction (at least some, would help) and the light is so harsh that some areas of the statue are just black and the shadow of the writing below it makes it difficult to read it Poc o² 14:40, 4 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
weak support I agree the lighting is pretty harsh. If this was a close up of the statue, then that would matter more and File:Niederwalddenkmal, Rüdesheim am Rhein, 140726, ako.jpg is better. But this is a photo of the steps and a tourist attraction on a sunny day so just about works. I agree with others that a full perspective "correction" is just wrong: the viewpoint is the base of the stairs looking up. This isn't an architects plan and we should not expect all photos to look like one. Poco does make a valid point that one doesn't need to do a full perspective correction, and sometimes that helps. But here, I think the sloping verticals tilting towards Germania, and emphasising perspective towards a important figure is a classic style. -- Colin (talk) 18:50, 6 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Booth sift 01:26, 9 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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