Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Louvre courtyard

The Louvre courtyard

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 28 Aug 2011 at 23:18:06 (UTC)

Reason: It is a detailed and high quality depiction of the Louvre courtyard and an excellent complement to the existing FP, taken by night
Articles in which this image appears: Louvre, Louvre Pyramid
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
Creator: Alvesgaspar (talk)

Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:18, 19 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Can you clone out the image of the woman in the blue shirt who looks like she's dancing on a table, next to the fountain on the right side of the image? She's an annoying distraction in this image IMO. Otherwise, I think I could support this photo. Pine^talk 07:24, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- There are two of them, one on each side, but I'm not skilled enough for the cloning job. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 09:19, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict)There's another woman on the left and they seem to be pointing at each other. There's a third woman in black doing the same thing ay the right edge of the pyramid. I've never been so maybe it's customary to stand in front with one arm outstretched. Not convinced it's worth the effort to clone them out, not the kind of thing you notice unless it's pointed out. If you start playing Where's Waldo with crowd pictures like this then I'm sure you're going to lots of things that seem odd. It's unusual to have identical twins in there, should we clone them out as well?--RDBury (talk) 09:20, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

- The one on the right annoys me more, maybe because the color of her shirt stands out more against the background. Ideally there would be a shot of the subject, which is the courtyard, with no people on it, but that may be unrealistic for a daytime shot. So I'll agree to support this with the qualification that I may vote to D/R later if a shot with fewer distractions is posted. Pine^talk 22:26, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support with qualification above. Pine^talk 22:26, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is no freedom of panorama in France, and the pyramid is likely to much of the focus of the picture... Not entirely sure this picture is allowed... And the Featured Picture we already have for this (File:Louvre 2007 02 24 c.jpg) seems to be a bit better quality? — raeky t 23:11, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- This seems like a pretty clear case of the "unavoidable presence" cited in French case law, since it would be impossible to take a wide shot of this part of the building without including the pyramids. The legal criterion is intent, and since the picture is title "Louvre courtyard," it seems like the Renaissance/2nd empire structure was intended to be pictured, and the pyramids included incidentally. Chick Bowen 23:51, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry Joaquim but that's another oppose from me. Again the lighting is dull (I think you can't do much about that, but using HDR tricks à la Noodle Snack to make the most of it), and there's a lot of tourists in the frame. The pyramid here is very prominent and we can't really say the main subject is the Napoleon courtyard, which can be seen only very partially here. We can use bad faith to some extent like in my shot, but we would go beyond in this case :) Framing is a bit tight at the bottom, and centering is a bit off (like the FP you refer to, I admit...) - Blieusong (talk) 11:24, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 02:10, 29 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]