Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

Reason: This image wonderfully portrays the infinite expanse of one of America's most important national sites.
Articles this image appears in: Arlington National Cemetery
Creator: User:Noclip

Support as nominator — _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐ 14:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
weak oppose - the geometry is very arresting, but the color ballance is way red-shifted and the sky is pretty badly blown in the middle. Debivort 17:28, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose - It has a wonderful composition, but the sky is overexposed, the color balance is off, and the foreground it blurred. ^(H) 17:29, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. Your points are well taken; the sky would look nicer if it were properly exposed. As for the blurry front though, that was one of the main reasons I liked this image. I think it gives an interesting perspective of the picture, not being focused on any one thing specifically. I don't know. I just liked how that was. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐ 19:11, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Oppose – I would have preferred a more symmetrical shot of the headstones. Other than that the same problems as per Debivort: overexposed sky, too much red, blurry foreground headstones. Centy – reply• contribs – 17:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Nice pic, looks pretty good. ≈ The Haunted Angel 19:16, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I have uploaded an alternate image in order to reflect some of the comments above. _└^Jared_┘^┌_t^┐ 19:25, 29 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment (not an oppose, just a comment). The sky is kind of flat; a bluer sky might help the composition. The time of year, with few leaves on the trees, is perfect, however. I notice that the composition is focused so that the foreground stones are generally out of focus--the focus seems to be on the ones a few tiers back. I am no photography expert-- what does everyone think about the particular choice of focus here? Spikebrennan 02:52, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Since a tripod was undoubtedly used I'm confused why you (Noclip) didnt stop down much farther for DOF purposes. Theres no meta data so what stop did you use 8? 5.6?. I too would like to see a better focus across the subjects. -Fcb981 03:30, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Was this done by rotating the camera in a fixed position? It kind of looks like a cylindrical projection. I think this image would be better served if all the headstones were in lines (and I'm assuming here that they are in neat rows, but it's been 23 years since I've been to Arlington). howcheng {chat} 06:14, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There is a very visible stitching error in the bottom left hand corner running up and toward the young tree and then up the left hand edge of it's trunk on .--Benjamint444 10:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC) Just looking at the thumbnail it looks like it may be tilted aswell.[reply]
Oppose. There are too many points of view that can be very distracting to look at, try a larger pov? <3 bunny 01:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I would crop/remove about 1 third from the right-hand side, it's far too distracting and is leading the eye to the wrong place. Chris Buttigieg ^talk 19:49, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:03, 4 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]