Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph

Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 14 Apr 2013 at 00:36:47 (UTC)

**Original** – Interior view of Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose, California)

Reason: High resolution, aestheticly pleasing, has encyclopedic value
Articles in which this image appears: Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph (San Jose, California)
FP category for this image: places
Creator: DavidLeighEllis

Support as nominator --DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:36, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
oppose: this is subjective, but the picture does nothing for me. Sure it's the ambo and cathedra at a Catholic cathedral, but I onky know that because I'm familiar with the ambo in question, having read from it in the past. Nothing in our article suggests either the ambo or the cathedra at St Joe's are particularly noteworthy or encyclopedic. In this particular picture, they blend together, being almost the same tone of brown. At first I thought it was a function of scaling of the image for use in the article, but they seem to blend in the full sized picture as well.

Unless there's a good reason to pick another subject, for the primary photo of a Catholic church, I'd rather see an exterior of the building, or the altar (because of the centrality of the Eucharist in Catholic liturgy). Your photos are nice additions to the article, but I feel we've lost something in the illustratiion of the subject of the article. The former photo (taken by myself for full discosure) that has been removed in favor of this one clearly showed the central dome of the church the article mentions, but which is now completely not illustrated. Gentgeen (talk) 08:12, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose The stain-glass windows are almost lost with the blown highlights, which robs this image of quite a lot of EV. Centy – reply • contribs – 16:40, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Suggestion can we get a larger version of File:StJoseph1.jpg? I think this addresses some of the concerns above, with more context provided by the wider shot of the interior of the building, the inclusion of the altar, and less space in the photo occupied by the very bright windows. I think this photo has enough in its favor that I'd support it if we can get a larger version. --Pine^✉ 23:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't upload that photo at full resolution since a person would be identifiable in the original file, and we can't do pixelations in featured pictures. However, I took File:Stjosephinteriorhdr.jpg today, which might fit the bill. I had to use fairly heavy HDR processing to fully light the interior while avoiding excessive blowout of the windows; much as I am tempted to simply use high-power studio flashes to light the interior, I'm sure the Church would not appreciate the disruption. DavidLeighEllis (talk) 00:59, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I still prefer the shot that I mentioned earlier. Can you retake that one? Another thing you can think about is nominating a set of multiple photos of this building, since you're taking a number of photos and I think it would help to have them nominated as a set, but that fisheye effect continues to be a distraction. As for pixelations, I think it's ok to do that in FPC nominations so long as they're not excessively distracting. I had someone tell me one time that they thought something should be obscured in a nomination. --Pine^✉ 18:24, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Sorry, but I don't like the way the fresco is cut off at the top of the image. Rreagan007 (talk) 06:13, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]