Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/St. Anselm College
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 19 Apr 2011 at 02:51:10 (UTC)
- Reason
- Hi, the image quality is very high, it is of a historic landmark of New Hampshire, Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. It was built in 1889 and the ivy on the facade is resemblance of typical "college" imagery. The image adds a lot of substance to the GA ranked Saint Anselm College article and serves as the infobox image.
Also, after viewing the other Featured Pictures, I cannot help but notice some severe lacking in the academic institutions department. I found only three other FP that were relating to academic institutions - Keble College Chapel, Military College of Chapultepec, and NYU library.
- Articles in which this image appears
- Saint Anselm College,United States, New England, college, liberal arts colleges in the United States,
- FP category for this image
- Saint Anselm College, Education
- Creator
- User:Ericci8996
- Support as nominator --Ericci8996 (talk) 02:51, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- A few changes that I think would improve this image: reduce the contrast - it's too saturated, and maybe increase the brightness a bit. It would also be great if you could fix the lens distortion (things on the left lean to the right, and things on the right lean to the left). If you have cropped the image at all, also feel like the building could do with a bit more "breathing room". Aaadddaaammm (talk) 08:50, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hey Aaadddaaammm! I could reduce the contrast; however I like it this way - yet if that is holding this image up from Featured, then I would definetly alter it and I do agree with you on the brightness, I'll bring it up assuming it doesn't pass this time. I am unsure on what you mean with the distortion, I don't see the leaning left / right stuff... I also have no idea how to edit that! And No, the image is not cropped at all, It's a big building to fit in there haha --Ericci8996 (talk) 03:16, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The contrast and saturation needs to be realistic. You might want to have a look at perspective distortion. A panorama and vertical/horizontal control points would be the best way to get it perfect. JJ Harrison (talk) 10:11, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Hey Aaadddaaammm! I could reduce the contrast; however I like it this way - yet if that is holding this image up from Featured, then I would definetly alter it and I do agree with you on the brightness, I'll bring it up assuming it doesn't pass this time. I am unsure on what you mean with the distortion, I don't see the leaning left / right stuff... I also have no idea how to edit that! And No, the image is not cropped at all, It's a big building to fit in there haha --Ericci8996 (talk) 03:16, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose Overprocessed, perspective issues. JJ Harrison (talk) 06:39, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
I'm ok with you guys voting no, I'll tone color and sat down... But I don't see the perspective issues and since I don't see them have no idea how to fix them. Where do I find these panorama and vertical/horizontal control points
- Have a look at this: this. Hugin is free. JJ Harrison (talk) 12:13, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
Thanks so much JJ... I'll tone contrast down and edit using hugin... Then renominate... Anything else you guys would suggest while I'm editing?--Ericci8996 (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
- As a film guy, I feel obligated to point out that, though my digitally-minded friends have pointed out a workable solution to the perspective problem using software, you could also use a shift lens to take the picture with correct perspective in the first place. Chick Bowen 01:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
- Or even a ladder! JJ Harrison (talk) 08:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 03:11, 19 April 2011 (UTC)