Commons:Featured picture candidates/Set/City of London skyline from London City Hall

City of London skyline from London City Hall, featured

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  City of London skyline from London City Hall - Oct 2008 by User:Diliff
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  City of London skyline from London City Hall - Sept 2015 by User:Colin

•  Info created by User:Colin, User:Diliff and User:Slaunger. Uploaded and nominated by me. On Open House London 2008, Diliff took a photo from the roof balcony of City Hall of the City of London. Seven years later on Open House London 2015 I took an updated picture. Slaunger had the bright idea to align the images using PTGui. After some minor tweaking of his PTGui project and a little sky-filling in Photoshop, we have here two images that are identical apart from seven years of change. I hope you enjoy flipping between these two images to see which buildings have been added and which demolished. -- Colin (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
  •  Comment Thanks, Colin, for elborating on my half-baked project! I wish Wikimedia had the possibility to animate the transition between the two. It would be more powerfull and you would better see also the differences in tide level, direction of light and slight difference in season (colors of leaves). -- Slaunger (talk) 21:04, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Both images are high resolution (39MP), permitting a detailed examination of seven years in the development of the City of London. -- Colin (talk) 22:04, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice Idea, I will make a juxtapose on tool labs to see this picture and stimulate before>after pictures --The Photographer (talk) 22:16, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
  • Nice idea, The Photographer! Try this! -- Slaunger (talk) 20:55, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support INeverCry 22:35, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very innovative nomination. I'm surprised they're exactly the same resolution! --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:07, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Thennicke (talk) 01:16, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Of course! 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 03:11, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:28, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support ~ Moheen ^(talk) 05:52, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:58, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very impressive --DXR (talk) 07:10, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Nice Idea --Villy Fink Isaksen (talk) 07:22, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
• Strong  Support - Fantastic historical document! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:29, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Very good idea. By the presence of cranes it seems that there shall be even more towers soon. --Ximonic (talk) 07:57, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Yes, the whole area still very much under development, with more towers planned. See also this version of the image which shows much more to the left. -- Colin (talk) 08:25, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

•  Support fantastic idea, perfectly executed. Great! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:21, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I love how you managed to captured one of the same boat! :D -- KTC (talk) 10:23, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 15:42, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support. Indeed a good idea, and well tweaked for near-perfect alignment of the two images. And hey, I get a FP for free? ;-) Diliff (talk) 16:29, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Question Not so sure about this Colin, 2 almost id pictures going into before-after Feautered nominee does not follow any FP procedure, eventually is doing against. This is definately Valued Image procedure where years could and should be taken in aspect. If not, we can make panorama for every time new building is made, hence FP category might have plenty of almost same stuff - how would some user choose them when he click the best one, the Feaueterd one ? --Mile (talk) 17:24, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

  I think overall, Commons FPC is more willing to accept high-quality duplicates than English Wikipedia FPC, where EV is important and an old image can lose its EV to a newer image by virtue of being replaced in the article in which it was used. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:43, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Great idea and excellent pictures. --Code (talk) 17:47, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Michael Gäbler (talk) 21:41, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support !! Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:59, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Pugilist (talk) 21:18, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 01:24, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 02:08, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- JB_aus_Siegen 06:47, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Question Back to my question above, or better say - what category for this Colin ? Will you make Before-After there, or Feautered by 2008 and 2015 ? --Mile (talk) 05:37, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure I understand the question (or your previous one). I'm not familiar with set nominations. We don't take "when the photograph was taken" when deciding what Featured year it is -- it is just this year 2016. Surely this just goes in Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#United_Kingdom? I guess if it were to be nominated for the Main Page, then it would be best if both images were presented (I understand that for larger sets, one representative image might have to be chosen). To try to answer your previous question, if I understand it, I don't think it would be so interesting to just photograph a random building one year and then another and make a set. Here, we have a skyline that has undergone significant change and so that is interesting itself. I suppose if a building was restored or enlarged, then a before/after pair might make a good set. Here also, it was special that both images were aligned precisely, which isn't common. Another good theme for a set might be taking a landscape in different seasons (like the images of a tree that make the cover of this book). But your question seems to suggest there is a problem here, rather than an opportunity for some creative and interesting image making. -- Colin (talk) 07:13, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 24 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mile (talk) 09:38, 27 May 2016 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Cityscapes#United Kingdom