Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Paver Blocks Exterior Circular 3008px.jpg

Image:Paver Blocks Exterior Circular 3008px.jpg, featured

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Picture #1, featured

•  Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Ram-Man. 16:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support It's not any type of plant or animal, for sure. In case anyone asks, I didn't crop out the upper left corner because it adds interest through contrasting elements and scale. Also, I corrected for barrel distortion from the wide-angle lens used, but made no attempt to adjust the perspective distortion inherent to such wide angles of view, since that's the whole point of this image. -- Ram-Man 16:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Makes me dizzy... :) Jina Lee 16:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose The angles of the paves seem red (may someone remember me the physical term ?) and the image does not have a so good "psychedelic" effect. Sorry --Alipho 18:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

• I think you probably mean the reddish color fringing, or chromatic abberation? I replaced the old image with a new one to try and combat the effect. I think it looks a bit better now. -- Ram-Man 19:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

•  Comment I find my eye is drawn to what seems to be a drain cover at top left. --MichaelMaggs 20:02, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Why some stone cubes from footway, are there so interesting?? --Karelj 20:27, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support - I'm not sure how to use this image to illustrate wide angle lens distortion. But I like it, the whole surface looks like a hill whose top is the centre of the pattern. Once again aesthetics prevails over objective value... Alvesgaspar 20:46, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
  • Almost every (and maybe all?) picture I nominate is used in at least one article, even if just a stub. I used this one in en:Paver (flooring), but it could be useful in other places perhaps. -- Ram-Man 00:41, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment the only problem i see is the drain, have you tried cropping out the top left corner a bit so that the centre of the circle is in the frame, but the drain is removed. Chris huh 11:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
  • I have, and I really didn't like the look. It's probably a personal artistic type of thing, but I think it looked monotonous without it. I uploaded a cropped version. -- Ram-Man 12:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Oppose Sorry, but for me, it is not aesthetically pleasing, there is no wow factor, and the manhole is disturbing. --Digon3 13:06, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I really like how you are being drawn by the repetitive pattern to the contrast of the manhole cover MichaD 16:50, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support wow, that's awesome. --pfctdayelise (说什么?) 07:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Can't let this slip by, and got to have the version with the manhole cover :-) --Tony Wills 22:08, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

result: 6 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Simonizer 14:06, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Picture #2 - not featured

•  Support I prefer the other one because the manhole cover adds contrast, interest, and balance to the scene, but this one is alright. -- Ram-Man 12:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

 1 support, 0 oppose >> not featured (rule of the 5th day) - Alvesgaspar 20:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)