Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portland Skyline

 
A view of Portland, Oregon from the east waterfront depicting the skyline of the downtown district. The Hawthorne bridge is prominent on the left.
 
Edit 1. Heres the saturation dropped a bit, mostly in the reds and blues. That sounded like the biggest issue. The contrast I'll hold off on, at the moment the picture fills the histogram with minimal clipping so I feel it isn't as big an issue.
 
Edit 2.I took the comments under consideration and I did a new stitch from scratch, actually a different set of images that I took 20 min earlier. I think it addresses all the issues, Its a bit sharper, less saturated, There is no clipping on the histogram, and the verticals are better. I guess you're pushing me to do my best, or, just exercise in futuility :-P
Reason
A large, sharp, high quality photograph. Plenty of ENC value. Eye catching.
Articles this image appears in
Portland, Oregon, Downtown Portland
Creator
User:Fcb981
  • I didn't compose this on some whim. At that location on the waterfront trail there is an ideal vantage point to avoid dock pillars, trees, shrubs and fences that obscure parts of the city from almost everywhere. Idealy, I'd be able to go up on the marqum bridge and take it from there, thus avoiding the Hawthorne, but standing in a 8 inch space between cars and the water is not going to happen. I did try closer to the morrison but couldn't get nearly as much of the north part of downtown. So I figured, koin center and wells fargo building vs. all of north downtown. As to the saturation, I shot with a polorizer to saturate a bit and by camera is set to +2 saturation which I prefer. In other words. Its the best composition I could find in 45 min of looking. Its big and sharp and free of stitching errors and lit well. So please by all means try to take a better shot but I am confident that we will have to wait a while. -Fcb981 06:20, 21 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Portland panorama3.jpg --Raven4x4x 08:45, 30 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]