Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Michigan Ave Bridge

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 17 Oct 2010 at 08:15:03 (UTC)

Original - Michigan Avenue Bridge (from the west) is a bascule bridge.

Reason: This bridge is a Chicago Landmark and this is a high quality image. Taken from the west it compliments the WP:VPICS that was just promoted from the east with the bridge raised
Articles in which this image appears: Michigan Avenue Bridge
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Engineering and technology/Others
Creator: User:JeremyA

Support as nominator --TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 08:15, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The image quality is degraded in darker areas, which sadly are the main subject of the picture. Looking around the truss structure one can see noise and even posterization. The composition is ok, but a bit mundane (mundane subjects are ok, but IMO there is a greater burden to be technically perfect). If the same picture could be taken with the bridge drawn up it would be pretty cool. Fletcher (talk) 22:26, 8 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Fletcher. It looks like a tight, cropped, face-on composition rich in rectangles. I’m not seeing how this is fine photography. Oh, BTW, I’m here in Chicago for two more weeks. Maybe I’ll see Sir Tiger. I’m staying in a B&B in the Bridgeport area. E-mail me; I’ll buy you lunch. Maybe we can use your camera and try to take a better picture of Wolf Point at night that doesn’t make others feint dead away because of rich, stunning colors. Greg L (talk) 23:44, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: but mostly because the bridge is so dark. It's hard to make out the structure of it; I would be more forgiving of that if it weren't the subject of the composition. Better lighting needed. Maedin\^talk 11:08, 16 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 23:05, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]