Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Calton Hill

Calton Hill

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Original – A view of Calton Hill from the Salisbury Crags in Edinburgh, Scotland. The hill includes (left to right): the Old Observatory House, the Nelson Monument, the City Observatory, and the National Monument. The Firth of Forth is the river in the background.

Reason

Very encyclopedic image of a very busy hilltop. Well composed, good technical quality.

Articles in which this image appears

Calton Hill, National Monument of Scotland, Nelson Monument, Edinburgh

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Urban, I guess

Creator

Saffron Blaze

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:12, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support One of the classic sights of Edinburgh. Maybe a smidgen on the dark side, though. - I live in Edinburgh, and it's a pretty familiar sight. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 01:17, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Neutral. For what is fundamentally a landscape image, I find the lighting quite unappealing, and as Adam Cuerden said, it's a little dark. It also seems like the colour balance is a little confused too, as the sun seems quite low on the horizon but the tint is a little too cool. All that would be needed to improve on this image is to revisit when the lighting is more conducive, so I'm not sure I can support it when it's so easily reproducible in a more aesthetic way. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 08:11, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support I like it. Nice light. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:05, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
• Oppose It's a worthy subject, but this is not a good capture of it. It is rather dark and also rather lacking in fine detail. In a daylight landscape image at a location that allows for tripod use, I find this difficult to explain away. As a minor quibble, the chosen angle has also made for a rather messy separation of foreground and background. I think this could be improved. Samsara (FA • FP) 20:14, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
  • Given the landscape, a better angle is difficult; the only other good view is from North Bridge, and it only shows some of the structures. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:57, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
    • Vertical angle. Samsara (FA • FP) 04:54, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
      • Yeah... that's not really changeable. Salisbury Crag is a cliff on the side facing Calton Hill. There might be some other place you could photograph from, but offhand, I can't think of anywhere tall enough to see the structures, but substantially different in height. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 23:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Seems just a bit on the dark side, but I like the perspective and composition (EV).--Godot13 (talk) 02:29, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)