Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Oklahoma City memorial

Oklahoma City memorial

Original - Panoramic view of the memorial, as seen from the base of the reflecting pool. From left to right are the memorial chairs, Gate of Time and Reflecting Pool, the Survivor Tree, and the Journal Record Building.

JPEG version by Diliff. Converted to JPEG (saved in Photoshop with quality level 10) which reduced filesize from 18mb to 3mb. No other changes

Reason

Took this one on a recent roadtrip west. The memorial consists of a lot of different parts. This panorama helps someone who has never been there understand their positions. I also think it's a very scenic picture.

Articles this image appears in

Oklahoma City National Memorial

Creator

Raul654

• Support as nominator --Raul654 (talk) 22:46, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
• Comment There are a few stitching errors: two are along the closest edge of the pool on the left side. Another runs through the stone walls on the right side. And any reason this is PNG and not JPEG? wadester16 23:06, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Prehaps something to do with JPEG being a crap format for high quality images and archiving? Seddσn ^talk 05:20, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

• Comment. That middle building looks really bright - there appears to be more detail in its reflection than the building itself. Tried to load a preview to comment further (the original at near 20MB is too big for me to download) but it wouldn't work, I assume a PNG issue. --jjron (talk) 08:08, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose. Nice view and composition, but the technicals are not strong. As mentioned, the building in the centre is quite overexposed and there are obvious stitching faults. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:28, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose - stitching faults all over the place, main building is whited out. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 10:55, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose per above. It is aesthetically pleasing though. I'd crop the wall on the far right out for symmetry. Good luck getting this to stitch without a panorama head. The image does a good job of showing where everything is. The survivor tree is obscured in this shot, so shouldn't really be included in the article caption imo. Noodle snacks (talk) 13:05, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
• Oppose, blown building (I'm sorry, I didn't plan that and wasn't thinking about what was behind the image). If we could fix that, and combine the sky and reflection from the PNG with the landscape from the JPG, as well as the stitching faults, we'd have something. Daniel Case (talk) 02:25, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Not promoted --wadester16 05:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)