Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Humble Oil Building

Humble Oil Building

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 7 Oct 2012 at 21:08:05 (UTC)

Original – The Humble Oil Building in Houston, Texas. It now operates as a hotel, apartment, and retail building.

Reason: High quality, newly created article meets EV requirements
Articles in which this image appears: Humble Oil Building, National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Houston, Texas
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: User:Jujutacular

Support as nominator --Jujutacular (talk) 21:08, 28 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support well captured: good angle and lighting. --ELEKHH^T 13:34, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T (talk) 17:17, 29 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support; looks strong, an excellent example of what pictures of this sort should be. J Milburn (talk) 01:03, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mediran ^{talk|contribs} 04:59, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The ground gives me a headache - not sure if it's OOF, or from processing. 141.14.245.242 (talk) 10:15, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- The focus was placed on the center of the building. The aperture probably could have been narrowed a bit (f/8 with 1/250 shutter speed), but I don't feel that it detracts greatly. Jujutacular (talk) 21:15, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I agree with the IP about lower part of the image. That could use improvement. Otherwise this is good. Pine^✉ 23:13, 30 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose I notice Jujutacular's comments on the focus placement. The ground being out of focus is not a big deal to me. I would like the entire building to be in focus, but it is not at neither the top nor the bottom. Jujutacular, or someone else, how difficult would it be to shoot it again, with a tripod, at say f/15+ for wider DOF? I would also like a shot where the sun is on the other side and we don't get the shadow cutting across the lower part of the building. If these are impossible requests, I will weakly support. Otherwise I feel we should wait for a picture without these concerns. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 17:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Not impossible, but it may be some time before it happens. I need to line up: a clear day, Sunday (only day I can get to this spot), my schedule free, not get accosted by security. Even if this does pass, I see that there is some hesitancy on the part of the comments here, so I may go back and try to get a better image when possible. Thank you for the recommendations. Jujutacular (talk) 12:44, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- I am not disturbed by that shadow at all, it naturally emphasises the geometry of the building. --ELEKHH^T 20:18, 2 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. I don't think the ground in the foreground is out of focus, at least not much. At f/8 and with such a distance, it should be in the same focal plane as the building, I would imagine. I suspect that the reason why it looks blurry is that it's been warped more significantly by the perspective correction, so all the detail is being stretched wider. As a result, you can see significantly more chromatic abberation in the bottom of the frame (good example is the white car), but it seems to be present throughout the image, and while stopping down can help minimise this, f/8 is probably appropriate for reasons of sharpness. Juju, if you have access to Adobe Lighroom or Photoshop, you can correct chromatic abberation there. Alternatively, use a superior lens if available. ;-) Ðiliff «» (Talk) 07:55, 4 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Humble Tower.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 23:36, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]