Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:SL Ella asv2020-01 img29 Dhowa Temple.jpg

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•  Info Shrine room of the Dhowa rock temple, near Ella ---- all by A.Savin --A.Savin 11:27, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --A.Savin 11:27, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Cmao20 (talk) 16:18, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose The strong distorsions ruin the subject, due to the ultra-wide angle. Currently these sculptures show a shrunk aspect, as if they were artificially large. Easily fixable, though: the same image approximately resized 7000 x 4896 pixels provides more natural proportions in my view -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:39, 30 June 2020 (UTC)

•  Support now -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment I like this photo, but Basile’s suggestion seems very plausible to me, so I would suggest to try it. --Aristeas (talk) 10:05, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Done I have applied a tighter crop (yet I'm not willing to crop away big parts of the ceiling, as Basile apparently suggests). --A.Savin 14:37, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

   Comment Thank you! But I understand Basile in another way: I understand that he suggests not to crop, but to resize (to put it directly: to distort ;–) the photo in order to change the proportions. @Basile Morin: could you confirm or clarify this? Thank you! --Aristeas (talk) 15:35, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

• Yes, exactly, I was suggesting to "resize" (I know this word can be ambiguous), not to crop anything. So, applying an homothetic transformation, with the height remaining as it is, and the width reduced. Then, the proportions of the people will look more natural. In Photoshop (although I've got the menu in French): Edition > Transformation > homothetic transformation. In Lightroom: Corrections of the lens > Manual > Aspect. Hope this is clearer. Thanks, Aristeas -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:40, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks for feedback, but this kind of distortion goes way behind "red line" for me. --A.Savin 18:30, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
• On a second though, I've gone ahead and applied it a bit (+50 of 100 in the Lightroom feature you suggested) -- it's maximum for me, hopefully it is enough; if not, be it no FP. Thanks --A.Savin 19:39, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

• I think it's an improvement tbh, but it was FP to me anyway. Cmao20 (talk) 00:21, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
• Perfect. With the height enlarged and the tight cut you made up and down, the final ratio is exactly the same as the one I proposed -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:22, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Really compelling now. --Aristeas (talk) 09:12, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 19:19, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support I like the way the image was arranged and the color histogram looks quite perfect. --Mosbatho (talk) 15:37, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Cart (talk) 12:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:44, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors/Religious buildings#Sri Lanka