Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Court 1 Interior, London, UK - Diliff.jpg

File:Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Court 1 Interior, London, UK - Diliff.jpg, featured edit

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Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff. I took this (and the photo below) during the recent Open House London, in which various commercial and governmental buildings in London are opened to the public for the weekend. This courtroom is the largest of the three rooms of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. -- Diliff (talk) 16:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Diliff (talk) 16:28, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose great sharpness and color, but there's a lot of perspective distortion. Is this something that can be fixed? --Pine^✉ 18:25, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- It's not something that can be fixed - it's completely dependent on the angle of view really, and it takes an angle of view this wide to show the interior properly IMO. It's no wide than hundreds of my other interiors. Diliff (talk) 19:36, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Diliff if you did a panorama with multiple photos, or took multiple photos from different points along a horizontal line and then stitched them together, would that make the perspective distortion less of an issue? --Pine^✉ 19:08, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support High quality and educational value. As a lawyer I have to support of course. --Code (talk) 18:54, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like Diliff's clear images like this :) --Laitche (talk) 00:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Angle is fine, though if there were a balcony I'm sure the results could have been much better. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:39, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support A fine extension of your church-interiors franchise . Funny thing ... because of the rafters and, perhaps, the mounted deer head below I thought at first glance that this was a ... hunting lodge . Daniel Case (talk) 04:24, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:26, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose A bit mess of composition while IQ is good. Problem is front bench is taking too much space and focus, chopped painting on right - if you would move back a bit. But I would get rid of front bench with crop per note. --Mile (talk) 08:57, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- Fair enough. It wasn't a scene with many position options because there was so much furniture in the room and the wide angle of view means that it's hard to avoid it. I couldn't really get further back because there was another bench that I was shooting over and if I moved further back, it would be in the frame instead. Also, the room looks empty but actually it wasn't - there were lots of people walking around and if I moved further back, my tripod would have been right in the middle of the doorway to the room, so it wasn't really an option. Your crop suggestion could work although it would make the image a bit 'top heavy' IMO. Diliff (talk) 09:03, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 16:03, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No for me. The ceiling lamps are distorted in foreground and straight in background. No need for a lesson, I know it is unavoidable. But it looks ugly and does not work for me. Idem for the streeeeetched paintings on the lateral walls.--Jebulon (talk) 19:37, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Julian H.^✈ 19:54, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Might have benefited from a higher vantage point, but I guess bringing a ladder into the Supreme Court of the UK is not an option. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 10:52, 2 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- That's true. It was difficult just to get this photo. Some scenes are much harder to photograph well and I think this is one of them. As I said above, there were many people walking around in the room and it was only through patience and careful timing that I was able to achieve an empty room image. I even had to leave the camera and go to the back of the room to fix the rotation of one of the chairs as someone had decided to sit on the chair and take a 'selfie' and then left it in an awkward position. Diliff (talk) 16:40, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose For Jebulon --Σπάρτακος (talk) 20:53, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 22:56, 9 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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