Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Nagoya Castle

 
Original - Nagoya Castle
 
Edit - Curves
 
Edit - Midtone Contrast and Saturation
Reason
High quality image of Japanese architecture.
Articles this image appears in
Japanese architecture (in a gallery), Japanese castle, Nagoya, Nagoya-juku, Nagoya Castle, Oda clan
Creator
Base64
  • Support as nominator --Bewareofdog 21:34, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support as an encyclopedic image of a beautiful structure, although it lacks the wow factor of some other images being nominated. I might have preferred a different angle, setting the smaller annex off more in the background --it's less attractive with the big blank wall and the windows closed off. Fletcher (talk) 22:53, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Conditional oppose The lighting makes the colours look a bit dull, which lowers the wow factor a lot. Perhaps it can be edited to artificially improve the lighting? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 00:36, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak Support. I agree with my fellow voters that the "wow" factor is lacking and that another angle might have been better, but I have to say that the photo is very good quality and quite encyclopedic. It's not the most impressive image out there, but it definitely conveys a lot of information about the castle. NauticaShades 01:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support Wow was the first thing I thought when I saw this. Very beautiful! Clegs (talk) 18:37, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted edit 2. --Meldshal 22:03, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Nagoya Castle(Edit2).jpg - this is another mess; I don't feel that Edit 2 clearly has a majority, though 2 preferenced it and no one opposed it after it went up. However given that Arad overwrote the Original with an Edit anyway during the nomination, we're actually dealing with 3 edits. Thus I'm leaving it with the official Edit 2, but it should really have been put up for more user input when it was first 'closed'. --jjron (talk) 08:21, 24 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]