Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/Chapel Royal Interior

Chapel Royal Interior, featured

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 15 Sep 2015 at 19:30:03 (UTC)
This set shows the interior of Chapel Royal, a former 'royal chapel' of the British Monarchy in Dublin, founded during the period when Ireland was part of the British Empire. This chapel was not an easy one to access, as it's normally only available to view as part of a paid tour of Dublin Castle, and even if I did take part in the tour, there would be no opportunity to stay back after everyone has left and take photos with a tripod in any case. Let's just say that having local contacts is useful, and they were able to open the chapel up privately for me, allowing me all the time I needed to get the three images below. They show the view from opposite ends of the chapel, and a 160 megapixel 'photosphere' 360x180 degree view.

I understand that the photosphere image may be controversial since there was such limited feedback on introducing this new image type when I recently mentioned the prospect, and given also we don't currently have an in-house way of viewing the image in full resolution as it is intended to be viewed. The current viewer is functional, although only at low resolution currently (should still be high res enough to evaluate - I don't know the exact resolution but my guess is around 2000x1000). Dschwen is working on the viewer (ping!) and I hope it will be fully operational with full res/multi-res support soon, but for now, you can only view it in an awkward equirectangular flat view at full res or in a panoramic viewer at low res. Please consider the image in terms of future possibilities, not just our current limited support of the format. For those that are interested in how it could or should look, I have also uploaded it to an external site which has full multi-res support so you can appreciate the full detail of the image in a proper viewer.

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  Looking west towards the organ
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  Looking east towards the stained glass
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  A photosphere of the interior (panoramic viewer here or under the image description on the image page)

•  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff -- Diliff (talk) 19:30, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Diliff (talk) 19:30, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 19:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Great as usual, though the high-res 360-degree viewer (external) is my favourite and I hope we can match it soon. -- Colin (talk) 19:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Could this be rearranged in some normal manner. You just took space of some 3 nominees. --Mile (talk) 20:17, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
  • It is arranged in a 'normal' manner - just as a set, and I used the set nomination template so as far as I can see, I followed the procedure properly. Diliff (talk) 20:29, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
• So should be changed. I don't see any reason why photos in set are so much bigger than others. I think you shouldn't use set for this but 3 different nominees. We had camera set nominee, photos were part of same subject from different angles. Right here is a bit above that. You put subject under same roof, but a millions options can be made if some misinterpret. We might soon have flood of sets, which actually wont be that. --Mile (talk) 21:01, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
  • I don't know why they are bigger either. The template applied that sizing. I see that my images are not the only large thumbnails on FPC though. Anyway, if you don't agree with this kind of set then let's debate that on the FPC talk page... Although this was already discussed and it was agreed that images of different views of an interior can be part of a set. I think they make a pretty good set personally. I don't see the problem with them all being of the same interior. The first two images are of opposite views, and the third is obviously a specialist photosphere image which has a completely different purpose to the others. Diliff (talk) 21:33, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
  • I don't see anything wrong with this nomination. Mile, if you have a problem with set nominations or how they are displayed, please discuss on FPC talk. -- Colin (talk) 21:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 04:02, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support WOW! --Code (talk) 05:22, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 08:25, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent. --Laitche (talk) 11:56, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 13:10, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Question Nothing against this set nomination in itself, but I'd prefer if the two first pictures had the same size.--Jebulon (talk) 15:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
  • It's difficult to do this because the composition is different at each end. I took the first photo from a raised platform and I cropped this foreground platform for compositional reasons. I didn't crop the foreground in the second photo because it would then crop the bottom of the columns. This has created a slightly different aspect ratio. I agree it would be ideal to have the same aspect ratio for both, but I think compositional choices are more important than that. Diliff (talk) 17:00, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support When I made 3d panorama year ago with smartphone, I realized how much we are lagging with digital cameras. GPS, touchscreen,...etc. Wish to incorporate script someday. --Mile (talk) 19:29, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Fenerli1978 (talk) 05:04, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer (talk) 10:41, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Tremonist (talk) 13:37, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support - Benh (talk) 20:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 11:04, 9 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Jacopo Werther ^iγ∂ψ=mψ 10:25, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 21:19, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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