Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ponte Vecchio Florence

Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Italy

Original

Edit 1:
1. Corrected stitching problems
2. Enhanced contrast of the whole image, and of the bridge in particular
3. Sharpened the whole image, and the bridge in particular
4. Resampled image to lower size to hide noise from sharpening and contrast enhancement, still big.

Edit 2:
1. Fixed clouds/sky.
2. Changed perspective and skewed to fix verticals.

Edit 3: by jjron (not for voting). Cropped distorted buildings and excess sky, slightly straightened verticals, minor adjustments for blown sky

Reason: It gives a very descriptive impression of one of the city's most famous landmarks and the prevailing architecture.
Caption: Ponte Vecchio and the surrounding buildings on Arno river, Florence, Italy.
Articles this image appears in: Florence
Creator: NikoSilver

Support as nominator Niko Silver 16:01, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There are obvious stitching errors, and there seems to be some sort of a fog which reduces the contrast throughout the image. TheOtherSiguy (talk) 16:19, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. Tried to address the issues. See edit1. Niko Silver 16:57, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The sky is not very appealing with the clouds blown out so much. Plus the stitch should be redone to avoid the strong upward bent on the left side. In this pano the verticals should stay vertical. Plus the subject as per nomination title is almost lost in the wide pano. --Dschwen 17:00, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Please hold on. Will try to fix these too later tonight. On the title issue, how about "Florence Architecture and the Ponte Vecchio". Niko Silver 17:06, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Please see Edit 2. NikoSilver 21:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - I've uploaded a low res Edit3 for discussion only. I don't think you can fix those distorted buildings at the sides, so I've cropped them out and slightly straightened other verticals. This has the added advantage of making the Ponte Vecchio more clearly the subject, and allowing some of the blown sky to be removed. Unfortunately not much can be done about those blown clouds otherwise. What do people think? --jjron (talk) 01:26, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment.Cases like this, which require several issues to be addressed before FPC, should be nominated to peer review first. --Malachirality (talk) 05:57, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Right. Withdrawing nomination. Niko Silver 08:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Withdrawn by nominator. Julia\^talk