Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kammergericht, Berlin-Schöneberg, Treppenhalle, 360x180, 160809, ako.jpg

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Info 360° panorama of the entrance hall of Kammergericht Berlin (highest state court of Berlin). The building is of great historical significance. In nazi Germany the infamous Volksgerichtshof held somoe of its trials there. After the second world war it was the seat of the Allied Control Council. In 1997 it became the seat of the Kammergericht again. Personally I've spent a lot of time in this building during my legal clerkship and nowadays I'm there from time to time for court hearings. I always enjoy the architecture of this building. It took me some time to get the permission to take photographs there but I think in the end it was worth it, I think. I took some more pictures in there, they're all linked in the description page in case you're interested. Please view the picture with the panellum viewer before judging! I hope you're not yet tired of these 360° panoramas. -- Code (talk) 04:50, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Code (talk) 04:50, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I'm not at all tired of your great 360° panoramas. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:21, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great Quality. -- -donald- (talk) 05:33, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support A pity that the ceiling is not exactly centered, but very good still. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Well spottet but in fact I didn't want to put the camera exactly under the chandelier. If it was exactly centered, the chandelier would look flat and one could think it was a painting on the ceiling or something like that. The way I took the photograph the chandelier looks more three-dimensional so that you get a better impression of how the room really looks like, IMO. --Code (talk) 06:13, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support More please. INeverCry 05:37, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Well done. I often wonder how you get these places to yourself without any unwanted folks loitering about. Do you yell "Fire!" or is the composite "the best of", selecting those pics taken when a specific part is empty? cart-Talk 09:34, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Haha, nice ideas. No, when I use the 14mm lens for such a panorama I take eight frames around, two frames for the zenith and two frames for the nadir. I always wait between the frames until there's no one visible in the respective area. But honestly this building isn't very crowded in the afternoon hours. --Code (talk) 18:42, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for letting me know. :) I was also thinking you might have a pet skunk in a cat carrier... They sure can clear a room. --cart-Talk 18:56, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Code and W.carter: interesting. If I may share my experience... (which I guess I similar to Code's) I've found out that stitching gives one a lot of room for getting rid of people. Since you get plenty of overlapping area, the likelihoods of a mask that can hide them are great. So I personally don't even wait for my frame to be completely empty (I'm only careful with central part). It's even possible to use Hugin to overlap several similar shot to get crowded places empty, like in here. If one likes it, he can leave one person for compositional purpose : [1]. A very powerful and underrated technique in my opinion (and one has to keep in mind that tripods are forbidden in the Vatican museum, so my shots weren't aligned be could easily be with a stitching program like Hugin). I think this is the idea Wcarter had in mind. - Benh (talk) 17:55, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Benh, yes that is something like what I was thinking of. I used the "opposite" version when I stitched together this photo. I took a series of pics within a couple of minutes and then chose the four that gave the most "lively" version of the panorama. But that panorama was put together by hand since the program I tried to use (Photoshop 7) did some really wrong stitching in many places. cart-Talk 19:38, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support Great shot. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:38, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 15:53, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --XRay ^talk 16:16, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 17:51, 14 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --The Photographer 00:50, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There is no doubt: this work is great and well done. But have disbeliefs if such work should be rated here as well as videos should be rated at a seperate section part of commons because this type of imaging fiffers on several points to "normal" images. This work File:Kammergericht, Berlin-Schöneberg, Treppenhalle (1), 160809, ako.jpg I would give a strong pro. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:41, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Taxiarchos228 and please feel free to nominate the picture if you think it's worth a FP star. Maybe I'll do some day otherwise. Regarding the 360° panoramas I think they fit quite well in normal FPC. They're photographs and have more or less to be judged by the same criteria like any other picture. The panellum viewer works quite well in the meanwhile and we don't have so many of them that we could fill a whole new section with them, I think. Anyways I'm interested what others think about your proposal. --Code (talk) 05:40, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Brackenheim (talk) 08:27, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 12:36, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support forgot to vote :) - Benh (talk) 18:26, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jacek Halicki (talk) 13:30, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:18, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /INeverCry 22:42, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors