Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Isla todos santos.jpg
File:Isla todos santos.jpg, not featured
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Voting period ends on 21 Dec 2008 at 00:05:24
Info Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 00:05, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Support Taken at Todos Santos Island, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, using a very big ladder. -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 00:05, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Oppose
Neutral The main subject in the picture isn't the lighthouse, but overall it's still nice. --Mr. Mario (talk) 15:13, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Comment That is correct, the main subject in the picture isn't the lighthouse. It is the lighthouse, the greenery, the cliffs, the ocean. The group of elements within a context, with their respective scale and proportion. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:49, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support --Lošmi (talk) 03:55, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - Interesting composition but poor image quality (overall unsharpness and lack of detail). I don't like the harsh shadows of the buildings either. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:19, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support --Karelj (talk) 15:37, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support --Avala (talk) 18:06, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose It is a bit too unsharp for me for the size of the photograph. --Estrilda (talk) 07:56, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose Per other opposers --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 20:42, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- Neutral It's a bit nice indeed... Georgez (talk) 22:12, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support Something different... I like it. For an aerial shot, I also thought it was sharp enough. --00:44, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support Aerial views are really beautiful. --ComputerHotline (talk) 10:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose great composition but quality is too bad in my opinion --Simonizer (talk) 19:14, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
- Support Quality mitigated by difficulty of shot. Freedom to share (talk) 12:27, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose The composition doesn't pull me in. There isn't a clear primary subject, and the eye skips between the cliff, the lighthouse, and back again. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:44, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
result: 7 support, 5 opposes, 2 neutral => not featured. Lycaon (talk) 00:06, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
There might be perhaps a slight chance that photography does not require one clear subject, don´t you think? If your eye goes back and forward, that suggests that there is movement in the picture. Imagine if one were just to look at a photograph and zoom in in one clear subject. How boring. This photograph illustrates the interaction of several elements, the lighthouse and the cliffs, it speaks of the utilitarian aspect of one of the subjects, hence the eye skiping. Usually they build lighthouses in order to avoid ships crashing into the cliffs, but I guess some of them might be built as pretty props to be featured in Commons. An aerial photograph of such elements provides a visual dimension of these elements that are seldom seen from this perspective and scale. Now, if you no likey, you no likey. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
