Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. View of first and second floors, with Minerva mosaic in background. (LOC).jpg

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File:Great Hall, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C. View of first and second floors, with Minerva mosaic in background. (LOC).jpg[edit]

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Great Hall, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.
orz --Laitche (talk) 22:25, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. I agree with Mile, the composition is poor. It's difficult to find a good framing for this interior though because no matter how wide you go, you're always cropping something. I actually shot this a long time ago (almost 10 years!) with a spherical projection. It's an interior view that is only really done justice with a proper 360x180 degree view I think. I'd love to go back and shoot it with a more advanced technique. As for this image though, it's very average. Look at the reflection on the tiles below the middle arch. It looks like someone has done a really poor job of masking or cloning something there, and it ended up being a blob of solid colour. I know it was taken in 2007, but it's pretty poor by modern standards. Diliff (talk) 00:48, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Tomascastelazo (talk) 01:47, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Because of the blown windows. --Code (talk) 05:07, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Composition. The column at right should be cropped out.--Jebulon (talk) 09:23, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Overexposed --LivioAndronico talk 12:01, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The hall looks quite natural to me the way it is depicted here. --Tremonist (talk) 12:52, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • The question isn't so much whether it looks natural (although as I mentioned above, I suggest you look at the reflection on the tiles beneath the middle arch on the ground floor and tell me that looks natural), it's mostly about the composition (off centre and stairs cropped by the framing) and the image quality (look at the shadow detail and the texture of the building at 100%). It looks good at thumbnail size, but not good when viewed a bit more up close. It is high resolution which mitigates the image quality issues but overall I don't find it a particularly impressive photo to be honest. Anyway, not trying to change your vote, just explain what I and others were mentioning. Diliff (talk) 13:02, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Yann (talk) 19:34, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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