Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Château de Maintenon

Château de Maintenon

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Original - The Château de Maintenon is a château situated in the Eure-et-Loir region of France. It is known as being the private residence of Madame de Maintenon, the second spouse of Louis XIV. The construction of the château began in the 12th and ended in the 18th century. The east and west wings frame a cour d'honneur. The castle is classified as a Monument historique since 1944.

Edited version

Reason

Compelling image, of very good quality , well depicting the subject.

Articles in which this image appears

Château de Maintenon, Maintenon, List of châteaux in the Centre region

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Eric Pouhier

• Support as nominator --Elekhh (talk) 08:23, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support although really all the chateu pictures look featurable. Maybe it is the impressiveness of the subjects or the lower technical issues in shooting a building.TCO (reviews needed) 12:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support, classic château pic that is wonderfully taken. That Ole Cheesy Dude ^{(Talk to the hand!)} 00:45, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support Really good quality and ev. I am a little disappointed with the image caption in the article of the Chateau itself, though. Spencer^T♦C 00:56, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

The one here kicks ass.TCO (reviews needed) 01:01, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for noticing that. Expanded caption in the article. --Elekhh (talk) 20:50, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

• Comment: Why do I get the feeling that it is leaning to the right? Rmhermen (talk) 04:06, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support very clear photo, good illustration of the subject. No objections. Pine _{(was GreenPine)} ^talk 05:09, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Support Very nice, I'm going to fit it somewhere in my photomontage   ■ MMXX  ^talk  12:57, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

:) --Elekhh (talk) 20:50, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose perspective distortions (@Rmhermen: because of them), strange bottom crop and tight cropped at right, could be larger for a 12 MP camera --kaʁstn 16:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Please see how's the edited version, I corrected the perspective distortion but the image lost a few pixels.   ■ MMXX  ^talk  17:28, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
  • Perspective distortion is inherent to how we see the world, and fully corrected as in the edit makes the building look wider at the top than normal. In fact making the walls all vertical is a more distorted view than normal. We already had this kind of experiment at File:Chateau de Maintenon v2.jpg and File:Chateau de Maintenon.jpg. I agree the bottom crop is not ideal, but is a minor point IMO. --Elekhh (talk) 20:50, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
    • Yes I agree, now the right tower seems leaning to the right (before it was leaning to center), I'll upload a new version shortly.   ■ MMXX  ^talk  11:51, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
    • How is it now? I applied less correction.   ■ MMXX  ^talk  12:04, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
    • I prefer the original because the bushes at the bottom of the image are clearer. Pine _{(was GreenPine)} ^talk 21:38, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Which one? Makeemlighter (talk) 10:55, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

All supports were for original. - Elekhh (talk) 12:58, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Elekhh. Pine _{(was GreenPine)} ^talk 04:35, 8 August 2011 (UTC)

Promoted File:Château de Maintenon 2008.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:12, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

• Well, if you guys says so. I was hoping more people would comment on the edit, but it's no big deal. Makeemlighter (talk) 02:12, 9 August 2011 (UTC)