Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Monticello Panorama

Reason: Showing area surrounding Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's estate. Existing photos are very low-resolution where this version is 12000x3900. Taken with a Nikon D3.
Articles in which this image appears: Monticello
Creator: Sbuckley

Support as nominator --sbuckley (talk) 04:00, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for composition. The visual center is a couple of random trees. Renata (talk) 22:59, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The original has a lot of dead space, and is tilted. I've rotated and cropped the edit but it is still a little wavy. Vertical control points in your panorama stitching software will fix that up. There are also blown highlights in substantial portions of the sky. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:56, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update In the original RAWs, the sky is completely white, so I tried to recover as many highlights as possible without totally modifying the sky. Also, I don't think that the building is particularly straight, since the floors weren't level on the tour. Yes, the crop is better for the screen. I have a 13"x40" printout where the building is huge and the path/trees lead your eyes to the building which is what we try to do in my photography club. Thanks for the criticism! sbuckley (talk) 13:03, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 09:01, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]