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File:St Christopher's Chapel, Great Ormond St Hospital, London, UK - Diliff.jpg, featured edit

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  •   Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff. This is a little known but fantastically decorated chapel inside a Great Ormond St Hospital, a children's hospital in London. I had not even heard of the chapel until a few days ago, so when I read about it, I decided to go and visit. As it is a children's hospital chapel, there are lots of touching details, such as the large collection of teddy bears (called the Teddy Bear choir!) which have been placed in the chapel by family members, and the 'prayer tree' with messages of hope and support for sick children. It is a very small chapel - perhaps smaller than it looks in the photo due to the wide angle of view. A small amount of vertical compression has been applied to the image to stop the dome from elongating too much. This has had the effect of squashing the top so that it is not quite circular, but I felt that it was the best compromise between controlling distortion and geometrical accuracy. Also, there seems to be a bit of a rainbow effect caused by the downsampling in the thumbnail, please view at full size and it should disappear. -- Diliff (talk) 20:45, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support -- Diliff (talk) 20:45, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support ArionEstar (talk) 21:01, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support impressive --ArildV (talk) 22:15, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support Great picture of a touching place. --Code (talk) 22:28, 4 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support --Hubertl (talk) 02:24, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:31, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support Longjoe (talk) 15:49, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Comment. Kadellar, you added a note to the image page asking if the crop could be looser. Unfortunately it can't, that is the limit of what I captured. Already the angle of view from the horizon to the top of the frame is about 65 degrees which is quite extreme even for a panoramic stitch. That's the equivalent of 130 degrees vertical field of view which in 35mm rectilinear lens terms is about 8mm focal length! The widest full frame lens in existence (that I'm aware of anyway) is 12mm which has a 112 degree FOV. And of course that would have much worse image quality.... Anyway, just putting in perspective why I wasn't able to get any wider vertical field of view here. It is quite extreme. Diliff (talk) 19:37, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you for the explanation. It's just that I find the edge of the circle too close to that of the image. The chapel must be indeed small... we haven't been there and it seems possible to have a wider crop, but as you say, it's almost above you. I'm still not really satisfied with the upper crop but I
      Support because it's a quite unique place and because technically it is very good. --Kadellar (talk) 19:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's sometimes a challenge to visualise the framing when shooting an ultrawide panoramic. You have to guess where the borders of the image will be, because the image gets warped when converted to rectilinear projection. And even if you do know where the border will be, that doesn't mean you can do much about it if the angle of view is too large. What would you prefer, the existing tight crop at the top, or cropping further the central part of dome with the pelican? Really, they are my only choices in this scene. Diliff (talk) 22:55, 5 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Poco2 10:24, 14 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors
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