Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Tower Bridge from Shad Thames.jpg

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Tower Bridge from Shad Thames
 Support OK, I have used the large image viewer and I like it now. Daniel Case (talk) 20:45, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:00, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Resolution alone does not make up for a lack of compositional harmony, which results from one end of the bridge fully showing, while another end is cut out and partly in shadow. Also, the background CBD is poorly and haphazardly framed around the bridge towers. Finally, a bit more foreground would have better balanced the composition. Sorry, but i do applaud you for the technical feat.--Fotoriety (talk) 01:12, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Fotoriety, there are limits to how flexible I can be wrt composition from this area of the river. If you look at other pictures from this side of the bridge/river, they all cut off the left part of the bridge -- there's usually a building or trees in the way. See this, this, this, and from the other side of the bridge, this, this and this. Some of these are also featured pictures. In summary: Tower Bridge is rarely shown complete, even from a distance. This one shows considerably more than the recent FP and imo has better arrangement of the City buildings in the backgruond. They aren't "haphazardly" framed -- I deliberately chose that exact spot so that the Walkie Talkie and Cheesegrater and Gherkin were clearly visible and not cropped. Any more foreground and the left corner gets a dark triangle in it (from the near bank), with a line leading the eye away from the bridge, which spoils the composition. This is an image of Tower Bridge with the City behind -- an image without that background (from much further down river say) would be completely different. -- Colin (talk) 08:05, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak  Support. Per Fotoriety, the composition is a bit suboptimal. But excellent image nonetheless, with good lighting to boot. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:29, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry, but this picture can't fascinate me. This really huge resolution (116 MP) makes sense if we would see a really sharp result. But the result is too soft in my opinion. Maybe it would be better for the sharpness to scale down here at 10'000 x 5'000 pixel. The shadow in the bottom doesn't disturb me, but the image itself hasn't a wow for me. It's for sure difficult to create a wow at this very famous and often used object. It's too good for a contra, but not good enough for a pro for me. --Wladyslaw (talk) 12:11, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • I won't disagree with your opinion on wow/shadow but sharpness? I see nothing wrong with the sharpness of this image: I can just about count all the rivets on the far side of the bridge and the downsize you suggested loses a lot of fine detail. -- Colin (talk) 12:24, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Taxiarchos228, can I just check you are viewing the original image directly rather than using the Flash zoom browser, which trashes image quality. -- Colin (talk) 13:54, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 16 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /KTC (talk) 00:38, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Bridges
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