Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Old Royal Naval College Chapel Ceiling, Greenwich, London, UK - Diliff.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
•  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff. The same restrictions on using a tripod in my previous nominated image of the interior unfortunately also apply to this photo of the ceiling, so this was taken hand-held. It's actually harder from my experience to avoid parallax errors when shooting a 120 degree arc over the top of your head. You can't easily bend backwards until your back is horizontal (while maintaining a stable camera at low shutter speeds!), and doing so would create major parallax problems anyway. So I had to shoot from 60° to 90°, then turn my body around 180 degrees and shoot the other direction from 90° to 60°, all while minimising any movement of the camera. Not easy! Anyway it's an extremely wide angle of view as it's a long church and doesn't have a very tall ceiling, so there is of course distortion in this image particularly at the edges, but I thought it was important to show the windows and organ for context, and don't think the distortion is necessarily worse than many other interior ceiling photos nominated recently. -- Diliff (talk) 11:39, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support -- Diliff (talk) 11:39, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Certainly an impressive photo of this gilded ceiling. --Tremonist (talk) 12:21, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Question what projection at stitch did you use and what was focal length ? --Mile (talk) 13:13, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Rectilinear and about 12mm focal length. It's hard to be precise about the focal length with stitching so it's only an estimate. Diliff (talk) 13:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Comment Yellow organ pipes?! The WB seems to be wrong. --Uoaei1 (talk) 13:28, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Why do you think that?? That's the colour that they are! They're gilded gold coloured. Diliff (talk) 13:53, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

@Uoaei1: He's right. Daniel Case (talk) 15:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

 Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 09:05, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

•  Support --Yann (talk) 16:34, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support As only I can appreciate this .... Daniel Case (talk) 03:29, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
  • Indeed. I thought you might appreciate those two images. I said I'd have a go at this interior almost a year ago, and I finally did. :-) Just a shame that tripods aren't allowed as it set a fairly firm limit on image quality. Diliff (talk) 09:05, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

So I guess part of this observation is no longer operative, then ? Daniel Case (talk) 15:52, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Indeed. I take back my comments about the tripod. ;-) Although I suppose it wasn't factually incorrect. A tripod would have improved it! Diliff (talk) 16:08, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 14:08, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support — Julian H.^✈ 12:20, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 16:14, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support --Hubertl 23:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
•  Support Grandioso! 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 06:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 15:30, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

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