Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Ermitage South facade Saint Petersburg.jpg

File:Ermitage South facade Saint Petersburg.jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
•  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Moroder -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 12:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 12:47, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Chopped right side of the building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Winter_Palace_Facade_II.jpg). -- Pofka (talk) 16:27, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
  •  Comment the building is not chopped. What you see on the right side is the building behind. --Hubertl 17:48, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
    •  Comment This is the "Winter Palace" which is a distinct building. The Hermitage museum includes also the building on the right which is the new Hermitage --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 17:54, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
      •  Comment And, I would greatly appreciate if reviewers would be more precise, and look more carefully at the pictures, not only mine, and therefore give more appropriate motivations. Actually I ask @Pofka: to withdraw his vote since it is based on false judgment --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 18:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Support There are more than just one view of this palace..--Hubertl 17:48, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Yeah, it's not just another picture - it is a panorama. But I really think that panorama of this building should looks something like that. This photo has too many issues are impossible to fix. --Alex Florstein (talk) 18:09, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

• Indeed. The angle doesn't suit me as well. -- Pofka (talk) 20:45, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

•  Oppose This picture doesn't make me go wow. The Winter Palace deserves a more careful choice of composition, lighting. Even though one had to wait hours to capture the moment. I am sorry. --A.Savin 20:44, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Crop on right is unfortunate and kills it really. You have some twins (the man in the blue jacket, and the pair of security guards with caps). -- Colin (talk) 21:57, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Colin. --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 01:07, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Weak support Even though some aspects might be considered problematic, it's still a good photo of a large building, one that's no direct front view as taken often. And, as far as I understood, the building is not cropped, correct, Hubertl? Consequently, I can't criticise this, can I? It might only look as if cropped then. --Tremonist (talk) 13:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Weak support per Tremonist. It's been a very long time since I saw this building myself, but I remember just enough about it to believe that you can't get much choosier than this in how to photograph it. Certainly I don't believe you could improve on the color. Oppose after seeing the photo A. Savin linked to. Daniel Case (talk) 17:10, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Symmetrical view is not easy due to the column in front, but nonetheless not impossible... --A.Savin 20:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

•  Oppose per A.Savin. The composition doesn't appear to be the strongest that is possible for this building. — Julian H.^✈ 18:22, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
•  Oppose per A.Savin and... When a façade of a building isn’t parallel to the plane of a photo, you expect to see more than one wall of a building, for such photos are similar to looking at a corner of a building, when you, as a rule, can see two walls of the building. Else a photo can look unnatural, like here: the Winter Palace doesn’t look like a three-dimensional building, but like a plane panel, a theatre set. Dmitry Ivanov (talk) 18:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC).
  • Why not? Baroque is a theater set itself. Moreover, one could have lengthy discussions about perspective but I can't force you to like it. Cheers --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 20:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 7 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Laitche (talk) 14:07, 26 November 2015 (UTC)