Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image-Grand central Station Outside Night 2.jpg

Grand central Station Outside Night 2

Reason: This is a re-nomination of sorts... This was the first nom which failed because of distortion issues. So I went back to the source files and re-stitched and labored to get all the lines as best as they could be. This is the result which I feel is better. It also has some added sharpness to boot. I would encourage people to vote on the full sized image (as per the criteria), not the 800px image description page, where what's left of any distortion is unnoticeable to my eyes. Anyway, I hope this one fares better as it took a lot of work to take this and I doubt the sharpness and composition could be improved upon.
Articles this image appears in: Grand Central Terminal, Rail transport in the United States
Creator: User:Fcb981

Support as nominator Fcb981(talk:contribs) 00:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Comment~~ ~~Oppose~~Support ~~Is that a yellow stretch limo or a taxi? Why is/was there so much distortion at 38mm?~~ Distortion is much improved in edit1, unless someone can point me to a better photo of grand-central I support--Mike Spenard (talk) 22:07, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stitched panorama, the focal length used for all the segments was 38mm. The panorama is I think 4x2 with some overlap, it would have been about 10mm on DX if taken in one shot. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 01:18, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support I would have been hard-pressed not to support the original, and this is certainly an improvement. I think I prefer this to a straight-on shot; a little more interesting, I think. faithless (^speak) 10:01, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~ The stretched taxi/cars are distracting and detract from the image. Mangostar (talk) 20:19, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks better but still a bit weird, but maybe that's because I'm overthinking it. I'll just not vote. Mangostar (talk) 23:20, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

*Oppose for the unfortunate distortion. Building is bowed upwards in the middle. The centre line of the road forms a long S bend. The straight Stone walkway curves in two directions, rather than simply curving away at the left as it should. A bin (bottom left) is distorted far from rectilinear. Check out the people at the stand (bottom left) - appear to be very wide and the bottom left corner of the stand is stretched from square. Taxi (front left) wheels are no longer round - Peripitus (Talk) 06:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per above. The distortion ruins it. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 22:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment OK, I had to download a special projection (variation of a equirectangular projection) to get everything in proportion. I really hope third times the charm... as they say. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 07:26, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Well, it looks a little better, but I just noticed a couple of things. The glare from the lampost near the middle and from the lights at the bottom left are distracting. Also, the people and taxis and such at the bottom seem a little cluttered. Maybe a crop? Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 13:17, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Sorry, it still looks like a funhouse mirror. Spikebrennan (talk) 15:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1 - looks much better now. Still a slight wave in the road centre line but there's no guarantee that it was painted dead straight. - Peripitus (Talk) 22:29, 6 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1. The 2nd story guard rail is curved, and I'm assuming that the building in the background (center left) is, indeed, in three sections with three different angles. If I am correct about both of these things, the projection looks good to me. I actually like the busy taxis and homeless guy and such. If we want a simpler, non-cluttered image, it should just be taken from the road/bridge leading direction to the front of Grand Central Terminal. I think this angle is quite advantageous. What I don't like is the lack of contrast/detail in the masonry/sculpture (especially the words "Grand Central Terminal"), I but I think we get more detail at night, so I think this is about as good as this building from this location can possibly be taken. And I like this location. -Enuja (talk) 02:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Edit 1. crassic\^talk 18:49, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yahel Guhan 07:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Image-Grand central Station Outside Night 2.jpg MER-C 08:24, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]