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File:Riga Skyline Panorama, Latvia - Diliff.jpg, featured[edit]

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Riga Skyline Panorama (360).
  •  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Pofka -- Pofka (talk) 18:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Pofka (talk) 18:59, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. Thanks Pofka, that was on my 'maybe I'll nominate' list so it's a support from me. Diliff (talk) 19:33, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment. For the record, it has a slight issue with the straightness of the horizon (although I've already tried to fix it and had some trouble) and some minor stitching glitches on the water that I will try to fix. Diliff (talk) 19:50, 27 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Lovely. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:04, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I was never a fan of this kind of panoramas, with extreme distortions and lighting contrasts. In my opinion nothing really interesting in the composition mitigates those flaws in the present case. Big is not necessarily beautiful. Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:58, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • The interesting thing is that the entire 360 degree view is visible in a single image. It's an image that rewards you for looking for viewing it full screen and looking for details. Yes, you're right that it's impossible to get nice lighting in all directions but you have to accept the image for what it is and what its strengths and weaknesses are, I suppose. Diliff (talk) 11:23, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I agree with Alvesgaspar. 360° panorama looks so strange. I would crop it to get whole riversigth, would be better. And resize would benefit. --Mile (talk) 16:07, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I cannot even open it. I really adore most of Diliff's pictures, but I don't see the use of this one. Sorry. The size itself doesn't make it featurable in my eyes. --Code (talk) 13:13, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • You don't even see the use of it? I can understand if you don't think it's a very aesthetic view of Riga, but of course it has a use. I don't think there are few better ways to show what the city of Riga looks like (the architecture, the relative position of buildings and natural features etc) than a 360 degree view from a central vantage point above the city. I admit that 360 degree panoramas are sometimes awkward to view because the large size, cylindrical perspective (meaning horizontal straight lines become curved) or the aspect ratio, but if you can't open it, you could try a bit harder as there are plenty of options available (including downloading it and viewing it in an external image viewer if your browser won't do it). Diliff (talk) 14:08, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Also, it's interesting how times change... 8 years ago, an 360 degree image (inferior in resolution and in stitching quality) was given a very different reception. Diliff (talk) 14:14, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • @Diliff: Well, probably "use" is the wrong word here. I'm sorry, it's always a little bit hard to explain all these things in English, it's not my mother tongue. However, the picture may certainly be useful somehow as it shows a complete view of Riga. What I meant was that I don't understand the benefit of having a complete 360° view in just one picture. I tried to open the full size picture in Chrome and in Firefox and none of them worked. Maybe I could download it and try to open it in Photoshop but to be honest, that's not the user experience I'm searching for on Wikimedia Commons. Of course, the trouble with opening it is no reason to oppose here. It just makes me restrain from voting. I really hope that you don't understand me wrong, your pictures are great. It's just that this is not what I would support in getting featured. --Code (talk) 13:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Code, saying you can't open it is a really lazy comment. Of course you can open it. Look on the image description page and you will find a Flash viewer and a Non-Flash viewer for this image. The Flash viewer is more interactive but the quality at 100% isn't as good as the non-flash one. Both make it fun to explore a city 360-panorama. The question for you is "what makes you think opening the entire image in a browser window is a sensible way to view this 360-panorama". -- Colin (talk) 11:02, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Colin: As you might have noticed I restrained from voting because I couldn't handle opening that picture. So it would be nice if you could restrain from calling me lazy, too. Thank you. --Code (talk) 16:21, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Code, I'm glad you didn't have the nerve to put an oppose vote, but your words were a strong oppose. Your comments are a bit like someone wanting a refund on their train ticket to London because the journey didn't involve enough flying and didn't end up in Paris. Such pictures take a lot of work to prepare, so if you can't be bothered to find the two links that Wikimedia Commons provide just below the preview so that you can have great "experience" with them, then I'd call that lazy and a bit insulting when you comment negatively here as a result. -- Colin (talk) 16:35, 2 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Colin: I'm not happy with most of your comments, too. But I still have to live with them. So you should accept mine as well. But anyways this discussion leads to nothing. Have a nice weekend. --Code (talk) 07:20, 3 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 9 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /KTC (talk) 12:08, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Panoramas
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