Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Phoenix Indian School

Phoenix Indain School

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 26 Apr 2012 at 03:18:51 (UTC)

Reason: I do not know much about photography, but I have been told that it is a great picture. The historic Phoenix Indain School, built in 1891, is a still standing reminder of how unfairly the Native Americans were treated in the United States.
Articles in which this image appears: Phoenix Indian School National Register of Historic Places listings in Phoenix, Arizona
FP category for this image: Places. History
Creator: Tony the Marine

Support as nominator --Tony the Marine (talk) 03:18, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The image is, unfortunately, not sharp when viewed at full size. (It looks like there may have been some sort of overly-aggressive processing – noise suppression, maybe? – going on, possibly in-camera.) From a composition standpoint, I'd be inclined to crop out the large empty paved area filling the foreground, as well as the 'please pick up after your pets' bag dispenser on the right side. The palm tree in the center of the image is rather distracting; I know that we can't cut it down to get a better photograph, but it might be better if the photographer could move a bit to the left and closer to the building so that the peak of the roof and the middle, upper-level window weren't directly behind the tree's trunk. From an EV standpoint, it would help to have a little bit more information about the identity of the building itself; Phoenix Indian School states that there are three surviving buildings on the site, but it's not immediately apparent which building this one is. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 02:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, on composition. Palm tree blocking the view of the building (I'm assuming you could move to the right about 10 feet and have a better line of view), and other fronds visible in the top corner. Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:09, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per above. I have seen the Indian School, and this is not the best representative picture. If the angle was different, and if the the picture hadn't been edited, it would probably be an alright picture. Dusty777 18:24, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I don't mean to pile on, but I thought I'd add that the image is tilted and underexposed to the hopefully-taken-as constructive criticism. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:48, 19 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. To phrase as constructive criticism: There's the beginnings of a great picture here. First, we need not to have taken the image with a polarizer; it plus the overprocessing gives us the underexposed look. It's probably also the reason for the noisy sky despite the efforts to suppress that noise, and the blurring of the bricks (in many other pictures like this, we have been able to make out the original bricks at full resolution).
Then there's the composition. It's great except for that palm tree right in the middle of the front, obscuring and distracting from what the picture really want to show us. A start at the next picture might be getting in front of the palm, or changing the angle so that the palm doesn't break the front facade in half. Daniel Case (talk) 01:57, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per JJ Harrison. Sanyambahga (talk) 04:44, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 21:25, 26 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]