Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Staples Center

Staples Center, LA

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Jun 2012 at 13:04:21 (UTC)

Original – The Staples Center, a premier venue for sports and entertainment in Los Angeles, is home to five professional sports teams, most notably the Los Angeles Lakers

Reason: High quality, good resolution representation of Los Angeles' premier indoor sports and entertainment arena, and one of the more notable indoor sporting arenas in the world. Hard to get without heaps of distracting traffic, etc, out front.
Articles in which this image appears: Staples Center and Los Angeles, amongst others
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: jjron

Support as nominator --jjron (talk) 13:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. It does feel a bit tightly cropped though. I feel like it needs some space on the road in the foreground at least, even if there were distracting elements on either side of the stadium. The trees and the skyscraper behind don't help either, but if this is the 'best' angle to view the stadium from, then I suppose they're part of the scene. It's one of those subjects where only an aerial shot would really be ideal. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 13:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Yeah, a fair bit of muck around the building being LA, not just at ground level but into the skyline, IMO necessitating a tightish crop as it gets messy. And a bit of a shame they decided to build the first scyscraper in LA in 20yrs right behind this joint, but it's there now (many slightly older photos of course don't show it, or have it in various stages of construction, misrepresenting what is now the scene). I considered a crop at the top taking a chunk of the building out, but I think it would look a bit weird, unless it was cloned out completely. I guess we could demand aerial of shots of lots of things we've featured, but they're usually not very likely or practical for most of us, are usually not a typical view, and as a trade-off you'd lose a lot of the façade. --jjron (talk) 15:49, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. Not the best crop, but mitigating factors given. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 22:57, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support agree with other comments about the crop. Pine^✉ 09:55, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose The building needs to get removed. It distracts the what is suppose to be the main part of the picture.

earth8845 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:24, 31 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

- It is a distraction, but we are not in the habit of misrepresenting reality. JJ Harrison (talk) 04:53, 2 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose I think this is a case where our best just isn't going to be good enough. I don't believe the foreground and background distractions can be excused as part of its environment; they distract far too much from the subject of the photograph. We really need an aerial shot.-RunningOnBrains^(talk) 17:12, 5 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 18:23, 7 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]