Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Zubarah Fort

Zubarah Fort

Reason: Illustrative, unique and beautiful
Articles this image appears in: Zubarah, Qatar, Madinat ash Shamal
Creator: Rafeek Manchayil

Support as nominator --Ariovistus (talk) 15:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Feels over-saturated. Given that this is a flickr image, would someone contact the author and ask for the unedited version? Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 15:51, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Looks over-saturated to me as well. If you look at the levels, the blue is blown out, for example. Also should probably be cropped tighter, although it probably wouldn't meet the size requirement if it was. Kaldari (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too much sky (artistic consideration) which left very little detail of the fort itself (limiting EV) --Fir0002 00:36, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Conditional Support I will support this once it's straightened (right side is higher than left - unless it there is actually a slight slope?). While it may show a lot of sky, what do you gain from lowering the camera - more sand? The fact that this incredible sky is incorporated so well in the photograph adds a lot of "wow" factor to an otherwise not-so-"wow" site. In this instance, the entire fort is shown, so no EV is lost by cropping off the building, so all other criteria are met. Very cool. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 06:10, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes but for a building shot it should have more than 0.2MP (~700px wide * 300 px high) of actual building detail!
Comment Could we contact the Flickr user and see if they'd release it a bit bigger? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 04:01, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]