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•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by PetarM -- Mile (talk) 14:33, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mile (talk) 14:33, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 12:46, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support — Stas1995 (talk) 23:10, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose I like the colors, but the wide-angle distortion is way too obvious here (similar problem, unfortunately, I often have with Sigma 8-16, when I have to approach the building very close... very evil in this image for example); furthermore, the woman in the foreground is disturbing, and why so much space at the bottom? --A.Savin 09:02, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

•  Info Nice to hear for colors. Otherwise, I saw that photo, of course, fisheye focal (8 mm) is not good for such type of photo, unrealistic shape. And that's why I have used two shots, at f/4,5 (16 mm is far from 8 mm), lower photo tilted to the ground limits distortion, and one more for upper part. When I stitch them one on top of another I had minimal distortion correction. For woman, this is place of worship - church. That woman is a beliver/pilgrim. She stays. --Mile (talk) 14:52, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

oops, I didn't realize that it's stitched. Nonetheless, the effect is just similar to wide-angle, which is probably caused by the perspective distortion of the upper shot and the follow-up deformation made by the pano software in order to equalize stitching inconsistencies. The woman is annoying for the composition, but not essentially. --A.Savin 17:35, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, I have to leave this comment: Perspective distortion, both in wide-angle lenses and after stitching, is not an error, it's just a representation of the mapping of a curved area onto a flat image. It's not a mistake and can't be corrected or avoided, it's necessary and different projections only vary in the way the distortions are visible. That doesn't change that it doesn't look good, but many comments make it sound like a perfect lens or stitching could avoid perspective distortion. That's mathematically impossible. End of unrelated comment. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 18:33, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

•  Support—  ℳ₪Zaplotnik  21:24, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Dэя-Бøяg 02:16, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Тајга (talk) 21:09, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Nice shrine, nice angle. -- Bojan  Talk  06:26, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment I would like to support but there is a serious stitching error in the building above the guy with the stripy t-shirt. If you use Hugin, you might want to try SmartBlend with it, as I find it generally does a better job. Also you can get Hugin to keep the (otherwise temporary) aligned segments and manually fix stitching images using layers with Photoshop. Colin (talk) 16:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

•  Info You were right, haven't saw that error, it was from smudge tool (accidentaly hit there), now corrected. Otherwise it was stitched much higher. Thanx for observation. --Mile (talk) 19:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

•  Support It is often tricky to shoot large buildings -- trees and stuff get in the way and you often can't stand far back enough. This is an attractive building, well shot. Colin (talk) 20:03, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:55, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
•  Support--Ašhabad (talk) 20:57, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Joydeep _Talk 17:59, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture