Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Ostankino Television Tower

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Original - Moscow's Ostankino Tower was the tallest freestanding structure on Earth from 1967-1976, surpassing the Empire State Building, and in turn being beaten by the CN Tower; today it ranks third overall as the Burj Dubai has overtaken first place. Among the communication systems Ostankino hosts are transmitters for nineteen television stations and seventeen radio stations.
Reason
technically good, either by hand or photoshop, extremely compelling and detailed, illustrative of modern design and life, worth well over 1000 words... may need to be scaled down to be used on front page
Articles this image appears in
Ostankino Tower, List of tallest structures in the former Soviet Union, List of tallest structures in Europe
Creator
listed as Vladimir Kosolapov, is this the same as the uploader HeatSink (?)
That shouldn't have happened. Articles can be featured even though they might not get on the front page. Images should be treated the same. - Mgm|(talk) 11:57, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Technical aspects lack --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 20:43, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment (by nominator) after reading the previous KXJB tower discussion I can see that discussion is probably heading to a question of making the pic smaller, which will help with the artefacting I hope, if that becomes such a problem. I am not against doing that, but since I just found the pic on its own, I don't know what the rules are on editing someone else's pic. And the image is of a quality that even smaller it will not detract from the technical details of a tower and microwave dishes, antennas catwalks etc which I think is why this shot is really great. and yes this is my IP, I only used my login because I had to create a new page for the discussion. 72.0.187.239 (talk) 23:05, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I certainly don't think downsizing will help at all. I just tried putting the original version through a workflow to attempt to clean up the artifacting, but I don't think the result was enough of an improvement to pass FP so I didn't upload it as an Alt, I can if anyone thinks its worthwhile/would like to see it. There is so much artifacting and noise a downsize to mitigate them would have to be so significant as to severely compromise the detail. I wonder whether the artifacting was not so bad in the component images and was compounded by extra saves in the original stitching and PP. I also note there are severe bands in the sky where the stitcher didn't blend the images together well, and these are really brought out by properly correcting the levels. I think it needs to be reshot really, there's just too many issues that are impossible to fix after the fact. Mfield (talk) 23:47, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 07:11, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]