Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Veterans Memorial Parkway, London, Ontario

Veterans Memorial Parkway, London, Ontario

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Mar 2012 at 16:31:01 (UTC)

Original – The Veterans Memorial Parkway, an at-grade expressway in London, Ontario.

Reason: High quality air photo of an at-grade expressway.
Articles in which this image appears: Veterans Memorial Parkway, limited access road (expressway)
FP category for this image: Engineering and technology
Creator: Adam Colvin

Support as nominator --Haljackey (talk) 16:31, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Photo has been edited. The original can be found here: [1]. Haljackey (talk) 16:34, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I'm not an expert in photography, but personally, I think you went a bit too far with the contrast and colours. Got any more information on what we're looking at? There's no geo-tagging or information in the file summary about where this is located. Also, it seems we're looking at about a mile-long stretch of road.. Is this a fair representation of the entire route? Matthewedwards : Chat 04:37, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Reply If I went too far with the photo editing, the original is available ([2]) for a retouch. Yes this is a fair representation of the entire route. There is a ongoing discussion at Wikiproject: Highways about geo-taging and coordinate systems. Once a consensus is reached, it can be added to the photo and road's article. Haljackey (talk) 05:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm from Windsor (2 hours away from London), but I can vouch that much of South-Eastern Ontario looks like that. Greener than I remember though. Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:02, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Current. Blown sky and oversaturation. Would reconsider if a good edit is made. Clegs (talk) 08:06, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Agree with the comments that the edit is oversaturated. However even the original has a blown sky so that can't be fixed. The original upload is lacking in contrast. Ultimately, this is a 0.7 MP photo of a piece of road. The camera used is capable of 6MP images. If you have the full size original, you should really upload that rather than a small wallpaper sized reduction. However, even a larger version wouldn't probably have anyone going wow and we'd then start noticing the limitations of the small sensor on image quality. Colin°^Talk 11:36, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - too distorted. MathewTownsend (talk) 02:03, 21 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Creator has sent me a higher-resolution file. I have uploaded it, unedited, as there was opposition to the photo editing. Haljackey (talk) 04:29, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- That's a 1.9 MP file. Still pretty stingy. Why can't you get hold of the original? BTW: the description page says the permission is "to use on Wikipedia". That's not an allowed restriction. I see there's an OTRS ticket so presumably full permission has been given but the description text needs to remove that restriction. Images on Commons can be used for any purpose whatsoever. Colin°^Talk 08:33, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  - That's the largest size he has. I have changed the description as the OTRS overrides it yet this text wasn't taken out. Haljackey (talk) 16:41, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Because of the awful sky. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 18:57, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 20:46, 28 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]