Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Sphere UW.jpg

Image:Sphere UW.jpg, not featured

Voting period : from 21 Sep 2008 to 30 Sep 2008 (included)

•  Info created by Giligone - uploaded by Giligone - nominated by Giligone -- Giligone (talk) 21:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Giligone (talk) 21:45, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment A nice picture, but I don't get why you've uploaded it to Wikipedia. This is not a photo forum, but an encyclopedic website. I don't see any EV in your picture. Wikimedia Commons might be more about the photograph itself, but it is related to Wikipedia. --Massimo Catarinella (talk) 22:17, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

• I've seen other photos of this style rated FP so I thought I'd try. (Giligone (talk) 16:07, 22 September 2008 (UTC))

 Comment This is not Wikipedia. It is Wikimedia Commons, and in addition to supporting the encyclopedia projects, it supports many other projects that are not encyclopedias. Fg2 (talk) 18:55, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

•  Oppose Subject confusing. Mrmariokartguy (talk) 01:06, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Amazing work. Illustrative for the University of Waterloo, why not? Vassil (talk) 07:47, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support - great panorama. Very well amalgamated. - Anonymous Dissident^Talk 11:50, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Question Have we not had a similar candidate before ? /Daniel78 (talk) 20:13, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

• Yes, thisImage:Dent de Vaulion - 360 degree panorama.jpg image was a candidate for picture of the year 2007. Its the same style but not of the same thing.(Giligone (talk) 20:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC))

•  Support simply terrific ! --Jeses (talk) 21:56, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Lestat (talk) 06:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Lošmi (talk) 11:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support This is a composite image made up from around 150 seperate photos taken at: 18mm, f10, ISO-100, 1/200sec. Impressiv--Guérin Nicolas ^(messages) 16:45, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
  • Actually I find this rather sad than impressive. 150 pictures and still all that we get is 4.3 Megapixels :-(, which doesn't leave much detail at all in this distorted projection. --Dschwen (talk) 20:55, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose nothing new --Beyond silence 19:26, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose unnecessarily low resolution. The subject itself has no wow - all that is really impressive is the projection/stitching technique. Looking through this flickr group, the above image is insufficiently impressive - Peripitus (talk) 21:34, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose not really --Böhringer (talk) 06:06, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- DarkAp89  Commons 13:19, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Comment -- Some have raised the issue of resolution of the above entry. Admitedly for 150 initial 10MP photos it is quite low. So I've uploaded a higher resolution version available hereImage:Sphere UW HiRes.jpg. This version is around 3 times the resolution, roughly 12MP. (Giligone (talk) 15:52, 24 September 2008 (UTC))
  • 80% of the area is just plain blue sky, 15% is just a patch of grass, the rest are pretty non-descript buildings. 150 10MP pictures should certainly give more than 12MP in the final output (I have images from 45 12MP pic which end up at over 30MP). So thanks for the effort, but this is still way below my expectations. What's bugging me even more is that the picture is essentially just a gimmick. Any other picture of that subject wouldn't stand a chance here. Just because most people haven't seen a little planet pano the are wowed. Someone pointed out examples of better little planet panos. It doesn't seem like a good idea to feature such a pano just because of the novelty factor, if it isn't one of the best examples. --Dschwen (talk) 15:45, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Tintero (talk) 16:21, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Pretty cool dwarf planet. lol --PedroPVZ (talk) 20:31, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Subject not that interesting, not enough detail, pretty good work though. --Dori - Talk 22:41, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Very high concept, but this picture distortion looks not some pretty for most of common users --Twdragon (talk) 11:29, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose ack Dschwen . Lycaon (talk) 13:57, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose The high resolution image is better so no point featuring this one. /Daniel78 (talk) 20:03, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Haros (talk) 08:32, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Result: 10 Support, 9 Oppose -->not featured --Mr. Mario (talk) 03:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)