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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
•  Info The frescos on Viborg cathedral ceiling are by Joakim Skovgaard. Photo all by me. -- Colin (talk) 21:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 21:41, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support This is very NICE! --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 22:34, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:34, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daphne Lantier 22:35, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Stunning. PumpkinSky talk 23:21, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Wolf im Wald 00:51, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:26, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Jee 04:30, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Atsme 📞 05:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Question A citat from our user on Commons: Much as I love my fisheye, I don't think this scene benefits and the curved wall is troublesome. Also the crop just looks like "this is as much as I could fit" rather than a careful arrangement -- the left side is chopped off. And although a small part of the ceiling fresco is now visible, it remains very poor quality. I recommend trying a panorama + HDR like Diliff used here to get the wide staircase but with regular verticals. Also the ceiling fresco appears to be a dome so may be better shot from below, looking up. A landscape-orientation would achieve the width with a standard lens like this photo. I am wondering, did that user change his mind ? --Mile (talk) 07:54, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

• The quote refers to Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Rococo staircase (Gruber Mansion, Slovenia).jpg, an image where the walls are curved and only a tiny portion of a ceiling fresco is visible. Other people had managed to capture that scene using standard rectilinear lens. A similar staircase scene was shot by me File:Supreme Court of the United Kingdom - Stairs.jpg where having straight lines was absoutely vital. So I know what lens to use when.

With the above cathedral ceiling, I did apply my advice "the ceiling fresco appears to be a dome so may be better shot from below, looking up" -- that's exactly what this is. The framing here captures not only the complete ceiling above, but the ceilings on all four sides too. In the portion of the cathedral to the left (chancel/choir), all three wall frescos are captured. The frescos on the far transcept walls are not captured at all, and that would have required another photo perpendicular to this one, which sadly I did not make. In terms of distortion, the walls do arch to meet the ceiling as we see here. This lens features a Panini projection where lines radiating from the perspective "vanishing point" are straight, which means the pillars on all four sides of the crossing are straight lines. The straight lines in the nave display some curvature but not imo to a distracting degree. A rectilinear projection would not have captured the frescos on all ceilings or those on the walls to the left. I think this is a successful use of a fisheye both in terms of framing and minimising any troublesome distortion. -- Colin (talk) 09:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support the candelabrum doesn't really help the composition. But I guess there was nothing you could do without getting in trouble... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:56, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

• Agree and, Martin, it isn't just sitting on a table, but see File:Seven-branched church candelabra, Viborg cathedral.jpg -- it is a huge floor standing ornament. -- Colin (talk) 09:29, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 16:03, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 16:11, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Dэя-Бøяg 20:09, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 15:33, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I am not a fan of the distortion on the sides. Not a reason sufficient for opposing, given the great quality, but... Yann (talk) 18:42, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:40, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Llez (talk) 11:23, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

* Question Is this free of rights ? I'm not sure...--Jebulon (talk) 21:12, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

• • It is free.--Jebulon (talk) 21:14, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 05:40, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

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