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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 13 Oct 2016 at 19:04:54 (UTC)
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
- Info seen at QIC, created by Colin - uploaded by Colin - nominated by -- Ralf Roleček 19:04, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support -- Ralf Roleček 19:04, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support INeverCry (talk) 19:10, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Question There is some supersize version? --The Photographer 19:30, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- There seems to be several monster versions if you check out the category: Interior of the Royal Albert Hall. cart-Talk 19:45, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support --cart-Talk 19:45, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support As good as the other one. Daniel Case (talk) 19:53, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Ha ha. I was planning to nominate File:Royal Albert Hall - Central View 169.jpg this evening, which is a central view taken from lower down from a box in the Grand Tier. This one here is from the gallery, which is a standing area at the very top of the hall. It's from the same level as the (soon to be FP) File:Royal Albert Hall - Gallery View.jpg but central. On the Open House London day, we got access only to some boxes on the Grand Tier and to part of the Gallery. The Gallery was popular with visitors and while I could easily photograph a high-resolution HDR panoramic from the side, it would not be fair for me to steal this prime position for my tripod for so many minutes. So I quickly took some HDR photos with my zoom lens and with my fisheye. This one is a fisheye photo with 5 exposures merged with PtGui to create an HDR image and then tonemapped to JPG in Lightroom. I also used Lightroom to mostly defish it, though there is still some curvature at the edges. A full rectilinear defish generates very stretched sides, and isn't so good for such a wide view, so this is a compromise. Once you crop a rectangle from the defished image, there aren't many megapixels left. So that explains why this image is
611 megapixels rather than 24 megapixels. I don't know if you would have the patience right now if I nominated my lower Grand Tier central view. Perhaps I should sit on it a while. As for this one, I'm very happy with how the view turned out. They turned on these extra green lights on the columns, very briefly, so that's something that wouldn't have stitched well, and those colour spotlights really are hard to expose for. -- Colin (talk) 21:36, 4 October 2016 (UTC) Oppose I can't support a downsize practiceSupport --The Photographer 23:08, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
- User:The Photographer the picture is absolutely not downsized. This is 100%. It's just a crop. The defish process causes the middle of the frame to get smaller and the corners to stretch into a weird shape. There isn't much left over after using the rectangle cookie-cutter. There's a little more vertical height that I cropped out, but I felt the composition was better stopping at the apex of the ceiling. -- Colin (talk) 05:57, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support - Yes, the picture is small, but it's also outstanding. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:39, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support Per Ikan. --Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Weak Support. A bit low-res for Colin but I'll accept the explanation. Very nice. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment Hm. It's great but I'd clearly prefer this one and I don't know if we should feature them all. Aren't you going to nominate this one any more, Colin? --Code (talk) 04:20, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Code, I've nominated it here. I planned to do it last night before I saw this nomination. I would love to create a Featured Set of a variety of seating positions (like View from Your Seat on the Royal Albert Hall website), but access was restricted. The first FP (File:Royal Albert Hall - Gallery View.jpg) is at the same level as this one but from the side, so includes much more seating and an asymmetric view. The other candidate is central like this but a couple of levels lower down, creating quite a different perspective on the hall. The other candidate is technically stronger, being a very highly detailed 171 megapixel image. But I think this one is probably the best image or view. I do appreciate this one is quite low resolution per the standards at FP for interiors. So I would understand if someone objected because it doesn't have the detail we often see in stitched photos or less-cropped 24/36 megapixel photos. The reason I could spend so long in the central box in the grand tier, taking a big stitch, is that the box has tiered seating, so other visitors can come in and get a great view without me obstructing them. Whereas on the Gallery where the photo here was taken, everyone wants to stand against the railing and have their photo taken in that great central position. It's only open to visitors one short day a year, and Diliff has been trying unsuccessfully to get access at other times [there are guided tours, but I asked, and they guide you swiftly around, so no time to set up a tripod, never mind take 63 photos for a stitch]. So I hope the circumstances and the quality of the view compensate for the lower technical standard here. Code, as a fellow stitcher, I wouldn't be offended if you opposed. -- Colin (talk) 07:46, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support but per Code --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:31, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support what for a work ... very nice! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:02, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Comment @Ralf Roletschek, INeverCry, The Photographer, W.carter, and Daniel Case: @Ikan Kekek, Johann Jaritz, Code, and Alchemist-hp: I've examined the file and confirm that the Lightroom scale was 100% on the original upload. However the defish distortion slider causes the central portion of the image to shrink while stretching the corners. So when you take a crop from this central portion, it is smaller than the original area. To compensate, I set the scale to 135% and have uploaded a larger version at 11MP. Remember that because of the stretching, the corners won't be as sharp, and certainly not as sharp as my stitched photos. -- Colin (talk) 17:42, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- No problem. It's nice to see that you can be "only human" like the rest of us snappers once in a while. cart-Talk 17:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- To err is human, to forgive divine.Alexander Pope. An Essay on Criticism (1711) --The Photographer 18:08, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:13, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 21:54, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors