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File:Ponte Santa Caterina (Venice).jpg[edit]

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Ponte Santa Caterina, in Venice, on rio di Santa Caterina
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places
  •  Info created and uploaded by User:Archaeodontosaurus - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:14, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - This is an out-of-the-box nomination for Venice. It's not a scene from a postcard or a painting by Canaletto or Guardi; instead, it's a complex composition that's rich not in wowing spectacle but in the many-textured forms for the eye to see. It's just as much a picture of Venice as a shot of San Marco is, because where else could you have this scene? But this is really not in any way just a picture of a bridge. Rather, I see it as a mini-cityscape of part of a backwater canal. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:14, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Ikan, I think you are confusing an appreciation of Venice, which you've extracted from this snapshot, with the qualities we are looking for in a photograph. As you say, it's no work of art but neither is there, imo, a "complex composition". It seems more "I aimed the camera at the bridge while I was on holiday and pressed the shutter". There's a random guy in a distracting stripy top walking over the bridge. There's a woman looking out of frame at something we can't see. And while colourful laundry can make a classic/cliched "foreign land" photo, the blue boats just look messy. The image is only 10MP from an excellent 36MP full-frame camera and yet at full size the quality is dire. Looks over-processed, soft and blown out in many places. -- Colin (talk) 09:54, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I said it's not a conventional view of Venice. I didn't say it's not a work of art. I knew at the outset that this was likely to be a controversial nomination, but it's not really a big risk because, hey, it's just a nomination and if it doesn't convince people, so be it. If others agree that the quality is dire, I wasted time nominating this for QI and having it pass muster there. Maybe QI standards are not high enough, as I was thinking the issue here would be likely to be a lack of "wow" or opposition to the composition as jumbled or something. And tangentially, I have yet to visit Venice and nominated this picture because of its composition, nothing else. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:08, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Colin. The picture looked a bit "overly-complicated" and too sharp. And I've also searched up Nikon D800, it states "The D800E can obtain the sharpest images possible", which is not a very good idea for this picture. -- NgYShung (talk) 10:34, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I really love "the other side" of things/towns/landscapes just because they are something you don't normally see in pictures. Even so, photos taken in such areas also needs a bit of composition and harmony. The things that stands out most in this pic are the many cut things at the frame's edges: a cut window at the top, a cut balcony on the right side, cut windows on the left and two cut boat engines at the bottom. If the whole boats/engines had been in veiw, this would also resulted in a bit more water and more reflections from the buildings. For me the shot is too tight. Had I taken this pic, I would have waited for the people to leave or for people to do something interesting or stand in more strategic places. Taking a photo of such a place usually takes about 20-30 minutes and a lot of versions to chose from if you want to get it right. My experience is also that if you wait around for the right shot, people notice you and your camera, they come up and chat, offering advice, asking people to stand back for a clear shot or point out interesting things. cart-Talk 10:45, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:55, 19 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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