Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Saint-Jacques Tower

Saint-Jacques Tower

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 8 Oct 2015 at 10:05:08 (UTC)

Reason: It's a thing of beauty
Articles in which this image appears: Saint-Jacques Tower
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Benh Lieu Song

Support as nominator – — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:05, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Ha, that's interesting. I took some photos of it when I was last in Paris. I didn't get an architectural view of it like this though, as I just wandered through the park (which is not that big compared to the height of the tower) and took a photo looking up at it from a considerable angle, so I'm not sure it would have as much EV as this view, but I never got around to processing it, so perhaps I'll take this as inspiration to actually work on the photo and upload it... But back to this image... I'm pretty sure Benh has used exposure fusion to create this, which from my experience creates the dull under-saturated sky that you see in this photo, along with the haloes around the buildings. At the very least, I think it could be reprocessed using true HDR tone mapping to get a more realistic looking sky. That's just the perfectionist in me though. :-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 10:29, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Featured on Commons. And also Quality image on Commons. Quite nice perspective lines. — Cirt (talk) 11:04, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support The muddy sky could just be Paris; romantic maybe, but occasionally a bit smoggy too; how I long to have him take my hand in his and whisper those three little words: Get ... me ... oxygen .... Belle (talk) 11:54, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think it's smoggy though. I've taken enough photos (and London is not so different!) to know that the sky tends to get lighter the smoggier it gets (more light reflecting off particles in the air). You don't get that dark grey-blue sky when it's cloudy or smoggy. I'm sure it's the image processing that has caused this. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 09:40, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Probably more the polarizer than the processing (the polarizer tends to desaturate the sky). But I like how it makes the golden tower stand out. If you folks think this affects EV, I can fix that. - Blieusong (talk) 20:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - It could be the polariser but I haven't noticed that it desaturates the sky - only darkens it. Did you use exposure fusion though? If so, I think it's the cause because it's a similar effect to what I've seen many times before when using it. As for it affecting EV, I don't think so, but as you mentioned many times on other nominations, it's worth making it the best image it can be. ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 22:50, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      - Yes exposures blending, which actually yielded a sky much darker than this (but it's really mostly from the polarizer because the effect is dramatic when light comes from the side). Would you believe I had to brighten it? I could go further but if it doesn't affect EV to reviewers over here, I'll leave it like that. As I said, it makes the golden tower stand out and I like it. My personal artistic touch. But if I think about it I should fix the halos. - Blieusong (talk) 17:31, 1 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely quality on main target, yes a small halo on surrounding buildings, but happy enough to support this... gazhiley 12:38, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Good detail of the "flamboyant" stonework, fairly good target article. Historical EV. Sca (talk) 14:54, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PS: I keep suppressing the subliminal impression that it might be leaning just a smidgen toward the right. Hope that's wrong. Sca (talk) 17:21, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The verticles seem fine to me - either that or my browser window is curved... gazhiley 09:22, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Seems like a very good photograph to me. Mattximus (talk) 20:17, 28 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:23, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thanks for the nom. As discussed on Commons, not quite the best setting for an optimal side lighting, but a pretty good one I believe. Next summer maybe. - Blieusong (talk) 20:24, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice...--Godot13 (talk) 22:25, 29 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support —Jobas (talk) 15:07, 30 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - SchroCat (talk) 09:26, 3 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 22:09, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 17:01, 5 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Tour Saint-Jacques BLS.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:53, 8 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]