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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places
Info created and uploaded by Arild Vågen - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:55, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Support - I find this a wonderful cityscape of a cavernous space in a photo that has a long horizontal view and also quite strong verticals. All the elements create a very pleasant rhythm for the eyes. I hope no-one dismisses this as "too busy" before looking all around the picture frame and seeing whether in this case, busy works. To me it does in a pretty big way, especially at full-page size. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:55, 6 June 2016 (UTC)- Support No, it's not too busy. Or at least not so much that its busyness overwhelms the aesthetic pleasures of this image that you have already noted so adequately as to not require any repetition on my part. I will add only that it deepens my appreciation of IKEA. Daniel Case (talk) 18:50, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Comment - I laughed at your remark on IKEA. Glad you like the photo! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:51, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
- Comment. My first thought looking at this is that it's a shame that it's not more symmetrical. The view is looking slightly diagonally across the scene, and this has the effect of tilting the horizontal lines. The most obvious effect is the street lights hanging at the bottom of the frame, which have been tilted by the perspective. It could be corrected in post, but would have been better if the photographer aligned it better to begin with IMO. Diliff (talk) 15:14, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- I hadn't really thought about that. Arild, any comment? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:31, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks for nomination and comments! The street is not straight, perhaps you can say that it is a symmetrical photo of a nonsymmetrical scene. I think the camera is pointing in the same direction as the left and right buildings in the foreground, and it also gives a balance between left and right side. As you can see from the map, there are only one footbridge above the street that it is possible to shoot from. I also like this urban "canyon", so I don't wont to move the camera more to the left. Furthermore, I don't think the street lights is parallel to the street in the first place. To summarize; although they are somewhat unfortunate I don't think the street lights is a big problem and I think there are stronger reasons to choose this composition. Regards--ArildV (talk) 15:24, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Comment - ArildV, thank you for your photo and comments. Feel free to vote on this nomination if you like. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:43, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:41, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
- Comment - No-one else feels like voting on this? I think this is a masterful photo of a cavernous urban space. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:41, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
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