Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Josselin Château Evening Light Reflected

Josselin Château Evening Light Reflected

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Reason: Photogenic 15th century castle enhanced by evening light and reflection in calm water.
Articles in which this image appears: Josselin Castle
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Colin

Support as nominator – Colin°^Talk 10:49, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. I don't think the composition is brilliant ... I find the picture a little cramped at the left, and the whole reflection thing a little too much, but perhaps I am being too critical. 109.146.248.31 (talk) 17:29, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – I'm wondering why the reflection seems to take up more vertical space than the castle itself. Or is that an optical illusion?

Also, in the other two pix of the castle at the target article it appears to be built of gray stone, whereas this pic. shows a golden hue to the stone. Sca (talk) 21:18, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sca, I think the nom's caption addresses the lighting – golden sunset. Bammesk (talk) 15:32, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Sca, I flipped the image and overlaid them and found the reflected castle to be a very close match for the real one. If you measure from the base of the pointy roofs down to the darker brick of the base, and then compare with the reflection they are much the same. Yes this image is shot during the Golden Hour, which changes the colours to a much warmer tone. Wrt the other comment about being cramped on the left, the scene has a large tree to the left of the castle, which becomes an "include it all or nothing" distracting element that then makes the castle much smaller in the frame. Beneath this tree is shadow, so that area of the scene isn't particularly photogenic (and the reflection, being darker, is just a big dark patch). To the right isn't a whole lot other than some canal boats which also distract the eye from the subject. I would have preferred a little more space either side, but including part of this huge tree or a bit of a canal boat just looked messy to me. -- Colin°^Talk 18:21, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – EV, good resolution and very detailed at full size (can count almost every brick). Bammesk (talk) 15:32, 17 September 2016 (UTC) Sidenote: I am not a fan of accurate reflection of man-made structures.[reply]
OK, support – Gargantuan file. Sca (talk) 21:04, 17 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 17:32, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – INeverCry 20:22, 18 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Upper left corner is a bit tight relative to the rest (explanation above makes sense), but the detail more than makes up for it...--Godot13 (talk) 19:00, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Fine 4 me. --Palauenc05 (talk) 21:15, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Josselin Château Evening Light Reflected 2016-08-15 WLM.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:50, 26 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]