Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Manchester Cathedral HDR.jpg

File:Manchester Cathedral (12645032543).jpg, not featured

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•  Info created by Mdbeckwith - uploaded by Mdbeckwith - nominated by Mdbeckwith -- Mdbeckwith (talk) 10:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mdbeckwith (talk) 10:50, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose Too much HDR (looks too "kitsch" to me), not that sharp, and too much distorsion. Only my taste.--Jebulon (talk) 11:09, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose Aberration perspective. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 17:55, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose. It's just not sharp, the whole image seems to be missing focus, but it's particularly bad in the background and on the right hand side of the frame. I'm not a fan of the HDR processing in this either - it's not so much that it's kitsch in my opinion, it's just too bright and overexposed. HDR can be used to capture a wide range of luminosity but that doesn't mean it shouldn't functionally look similar in luminosity to a single exposure. Here's an edit showing what I think is a more appropriate exposure. It's a pretty quick and dirty edit but you get the idea. To do it properly would require going back to the original files, but I think the focus is probably makes the image terminally ill. Downsampling substantially hides the issue but I'm not convinced... Diliff (talk) 17:38, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Viscontino (talk) 11:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 15:10, 15 January 2014 (UTC)