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File:Arian Baptistry ceiling mosaic - Ravenna.jpg, featured

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Info Baptism of Jesus by Saint John the Baptist with procession of the Apostles around. Arian Baptistry ceiling mosaic in Ravenna, Italy. Built 5-6 century A.D. UNESCO World heritage site. All by --Mile (talk) 09:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Mile (talk) 09:46, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support At first I thought that these corners are too dark. But when I zoomed-in that, it became clear for me that if it would be lighter, it would probably look much worse because these walls seems solidly damaged by time and requires at least minor restoration (especially windows surroundings). Illumination selection is excellent. By the way, love these blue windows. They simply look great with that gold center. -- Pofka (talk) 10:00, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Pofka True you are. Those walls are not helping viewer to concentrate on mosaic (check here), but i did not want to go into sqaure crop to avoid them, because windows breathe some ligth-life into composition. So i used lower ligth gradience. --Mile (talk) 10:16, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perfectly done. -- Pofka (talk) 16:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Hubertl (talk) 18:18, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Wouldn't it deserve a slight tilt clockwise ? Gzzz (talk) 20:41, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Info Gzzz Not much freedom here, focal 12 mm, cant go further back. Doing rotation would bring you tigth crop bottom-above line. I would leave it as it is. --Mile (talk) 21:40, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support Albertus teolog (talk) 23:55, 1 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It needs a tilt in cw direction. Furthermore the overexposed (and with CA) windows spoil the picture. IMHO there is one way, though, to get a FP out of it, look at this. If you make an alternative like that I'd support. Poc o² 08:34, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Soundwaweserb (talk) 13:34, 2 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Tilted. --Kadellar (talk) 01:35, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Info New version, since some dont like previous. Lets try sqaure crop. Check now...Kadellar, Poc. --Mile (talk) 08:04, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am not convinced either, those overexposed and now cropped windows are expoiling it. You should have taken several pictures to increase the dynamic range or opt for something like this: Arian , that I just uploaded, you can use as alternative if you like it Poc o² 09:19, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment No need for HDR. Your version is to much artistic, have in mind its encyclopedia, should depict reality - read Digital manipulation chapter "natural appearance". --Mile (talk) 09:51, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As you like. Still, I don't believe that I deceive anybody using a round format. The intention here is not to make it look like the windows are not existing, but rather using this format to concentrate on the dome and not on any surrounding elements. Poc o² 09:55, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --LuisArmandoRasteletti (talk) 22:57, 3 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jacek Halicki (talk) 13:32, 4 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:16, 5 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Much better now ! --Gzzz (talk) 19:35, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good quality mosaic. -- Colin (talk) 19:18, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer 17:28, 10 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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