Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Toronto Skyline

Reason: A high resolution image of the booming Toronto skyline, showing the extensive dense urban landscape of the city as well as major landmarks, both natural and man-made.
Proposed caption: A panoramic photo of downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, taken from Panorama Bar in the Manulife Centre, May 13, 2007. The image shows downtown Toronto in detail, as well as the CN Tower and the Skydome (Rogers Centre) in the centre of the image. To the bottom right is Queen's Park, where the Ontario Legislature takes place. To the left and bottom of the image is extensive condominium housing, which has had a huge boom in the city during recent years. At the top of the image lies Lake Ontario, fed by fresh water from the other Great Lakes via Niagara Falls.
Articles this image appears in: Toronto, Panorama Lounge, and Architecture in Toronto
Creator: Gbarill

Support as nominator Haljackey 21:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose huge image, but not sharp, perhaps from motion blur. Some lens distortion causes leaning buildings on both the left and right. Matt Deres 00:49, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think this is lens distortion. Panoramas will suffer some sort of distortion depending on their projection methods. thegreen J Are you green? 01:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Matt's comment on the blur. NyyDave 02:24, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose A good example of high pixel resolution being no substitute for sharp focus and decent composition. I'm fairly sure that is wide-angle lens distortion, btw. --mikaul^talk 16:27, 20 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Hmmm... 7.8mm×6=45.6mm equivilant focal length - not really that wide. thegreen J Are you green? 04:09, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Maybe not, but lens (perspective) distortion all the same. If you tilt the camera down like this, there aren't many lenses which won't distort the image. It might look more "natural" rotated CW a tad, but the tallest of the buildings would then tilt to the right. --mikaul^talk 08:15, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I see what you mean now. thegreen J Are you green? 17:17, 21 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 08:48, 25 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]