Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Top of the Victoria Memorial

Top of the Victoria Monument

Reason: very high quality picture of the top of the Victoria Memorial (London)
Proposed caption: The Victoria Memorial is a sculpture in London, placed at the centre of Queen's Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace. It has a large statue of Queen Victoria facing north-eastwards towards The Mall. The other sides of the monument feature dark patinated bronze statues of the Angel of Justice (facing north-westwards toward Green Park), the Angel of Truth (facing south-eastwards) and Charity facing Buckingham Palace. On the pinnacle, is Victory with two seated figures. The subsidiary figures were ~~gifted~~ given by the people of New Zealand.
Articles this image appears in: Victoria Memorial (London)
Creator: Aldaron

Support as nominator Hadseys 20:47, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Moderate oppose; the image quality is good, and the focus is there, but the lighting is rubbish and dictates the accuracy of the picture. Example: even at full size, it's difficult to see what kind of eyes the statue has, and when you try to imagine what kind of eyes the statue has, you might get conjunctivitis from trying to figure it out. Perhaps a better picture could be taken if it was under clear, sunny weather. Look at this, for instance. This might be the best kind of weather to take a picture. It was taken from the rear of the statue, but look how radiant it is! If this candidate was taken again under good weather conditions, I believe it will look much better. -- Altiris Helios Exeunt 02:33, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support In contrast to above, I think the lighting is the strongest aspect of this picture. Sharpness is marginal, crop doesn't show enough bottom, but I love the lighting. Fairly soft directional, with an overcast? how? both the statue and the overcast sky are nicely exposed. It looks like the photographer used 3 3200 watt second strobe heads from camera left to give some very nice fill flash. obviously they didn't but it does have that effect. -Fcb981^{(talk:contribs)} 03:42, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - The image doesn't seem that sharp when opened fully, also there are very bright parts on the monument which are distracting. However I do like the background contrast --Childzy ¤ Talk 10:14, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sharpness is simply lacking. thegreen J Are you green? 00:55, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: per above, image quality isn't good enough. Given there's nothing unusual about what's depicted, it shouldn't be a problem to get a better image of the subject. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 12:13, 26 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:43, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]