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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
Info created & uploaded by Dietmar Rabich - nominated by Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:49, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Support - Along with the spectacular interior of the Heiligengrabe Chapel and other parts of the Monastery Endowment of the Holy Grave, XRay also photographed the apartments of the monks extensively. I consider this is the best of those photos that I've seen so far, and I find the experience of looking at it rewarding in a similar way to looking at a fine studio still life painting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:49, 31 May 2017 (UTC)- Support I like the "clean" mood of the picture --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:00, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support Thank to Ikan Kekek for nominating this photograph. --XRay talk 04:05, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Happy to do it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:45, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
Neutral The distortion is understandable given the size of the room, but I find it a bit overwhelming -- Thennicke (talk) 06:19, 31 May 2017 (UTC)- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:47, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support Per Frank. --Code (talk) 07:28, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:20, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support Special. --Laitche (talk) 11:38, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Neutral Per Thennicke. --Hockei (talk) 14:21, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Mile (talk) 14:59, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support Simply, clean and minimalist Neutral Peer Colin, extreme and unnatural distortion --The Photographer 16:03, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support -- Pofka (talk) 19:03, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support Daphne Lantier 19:30, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
- Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 01:06, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 17:38, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
- Neutral Per Thennicke. I do find it a striking image, with lovely pastel colours, and it has a certain geometric charm so I won't oppose. But as a way to photograph a small room, I don't think an ultra-wide lens is optimal here. -- Colin (talk) 18:43, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
Comment - You all have a point. I'd be interested to see XRay's thoughts on this. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:43, 1 June 2017 (UTC)- I've seen your comment about the lens and I was thinking about the optimal lens. The ultra-wide lens has disadvantages, yes. But IMO the distortion is only a minor problem in this case. With more focal length the furniture wouldn't be seen completely. A problem - as you said - of a small room. Another solution would be to reduce to windows, table and chairs or windows and wardrobe or parts of the furniture in the foreground which cause other problems. IMO this kind of view is the best way to show the room. Other views of kitchen and bathroom were much more problematic. --XRay talk 04:59, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- A US real estate photographer, who used to do lots of Sony lens reviews, recommended not really going much below 20mm (full frame), as the distortions get too weird for people to accept. I think the distortion here is really quite extreme actually, but the overall scene is pleasing enough. The chairs and table look really odd, but since the effect is rather artistic, it nearly works. It may be "the best way to show the room" but that doesn't mean it is the best kind of image photographically. There's a real temptation (especially with stitched photos) to try to cram everything in. The famous painters also knew that taking an ultra-wide perspective looked unsettling. Of course, I like my fish-eye lens too :-) -- Colin (talk) 18:50, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- BTW: I think my next camera will be a full frame camera. The camera used for this photograph is part of equipment of Wikimedia Austria (Thanks to Austria). The result of all the photographs taken in Heiligengrabe is, that a lens with a focal length of 11 mm may be very useful for small rooms, but the photographs should taken carefully. Sometimes there was too much not acceptable distortion. So I agree to your explanation. I think I'll buy another wide angle lens, may be at least 14 or 20 mm. --XRay talk 19:01, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- Support I accept completely XRay's explanation of the tradeoffs he had to make. So many things work for me in this image ... the slightly blown windows are, after all, really the only light source in the image, sort of emphasizing the religious nature of this space. Or, I should say, there are the only light source that's actually on ... I love the way the very modern lamp in the back corner asserts its right to be in the picture by its own simplicity of design. Daniel Case (talk) 16:57, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
- Support simply but very nice --Pudelek (talk) 13:10, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 17:06, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
- Support after reading all the reviews. Jee 02:27, 4 June 2017 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
