Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Torre Belém April 2009-1.jpg

Tower of Belém, Lisbon

Reason: detailed and high quality panorama of a well-known monument. The best vailable, I believe.
Articles this image appears in: Tower of Belém, Manueline
Creator: Alvesgaspar (talk)

Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good composition and detail. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 10:37, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Why are there two identical people on the bridge? Looks like one face has been cloned to another body. Katalysator (talk) 12:08, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Info - That is the joy of doing panoramas with moving subjects: it is the same guy in two different positions (with the head cloned, you are right). Maybe be it could be removed by cloning but I didn't find it necessary and the quality of the result is uncertain. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:36, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Just a tip for this sort of photography... If you take panoramas with enough overlap, one of the frames will likely be empty of a person, so if stitch the panorama with layers, you can simply remove the person from that layer, revealing the background behind him. I sometimes use this technique if there is duplication of people. However, if you wait too long between frames or you don't provide enough overlap, this will not be possible. In this panorama though, it definitely isn't the same person twice. He has different clothes/shoes in the second instance (and is carrying a bag, I think). Only his head and collar is cloned. Bizarre. :-) I think that it would be worth trying to re-stitch to fix it, but I won't oppose on that basis. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:54, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - This is all new for me. I just knew from you that the stitch could be adjusted by manipulating the layers, and that is what I'm trying to learn now. But it will take some time. I don't even know how to work with Gimp ... or layers. Thanks for the hint. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:56, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - I do not know much about photography, but it was exactly Diliffs last point that bugged me. But it is only a small detail, so I won't stand in the way on this one. Katalysator (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - You're certainly within your rights to oppose though, as accuracy is paramount for any image on Wikipedia, but especially FPs. That person is secondary to the actual subject though, which is why I let it be. But if it can be fixed, it really should be fixed. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:39, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Though don't forget artistic freedom. Note that George Washington appears here more than 7 times. ~ ωαdεstεr16_«talk^stalk» 03:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per Diliff. Katalysator (talk) 14:53, 16 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Question What is the story with the variation in colour across the building? Seems to me that the camera was left on auto white balance and it wasn't corrected prior to stitching. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:28, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Are you referring to the warm cast on the bottom left and cooler cast on the top right? I didn't notice this until you mentioned it. It is fairly subtle, but worth questioning. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 09:35, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yep, the images at Commons:Torre de Belém suggest that it isn't meant to be there. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:43, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Regretful Oppose Stitching/cloneing error and colour "fade" is offputting... Lovely picture otherwise... Gazhiley (talk) 12:13, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Very nice picture. Therefore I've nominated it at german FPC. But there seem to be some retouching work that is very curious. What is the reason for this manipulation? Wladyslaw (talk) 12:38, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw the nomination and promise to come back with a re-stitched version, as soon as possible. Yes, besides the problem of the identical twins, there seems to be some temperature differences across the pano. Hope it can all be fixed. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 12:56, 17 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]