Wikipedia:Picture peer review/San Fernando City Hall

City Hall of San Fernando, Pampanga

The city hall of San Fernando in the province of Pampanga, on the left is the plaque of the city seal. The first casa municipal was built in the present site in 1755 out of stone and thatch but was burned by the Philippine Revolutionary Army on orders of Gen. Antonio Luna, on May 4, 1899. The present building was built after the war using the original adobe stonework.

I believe that I should nominate it because the picture shows the history of its city, the province and its country itself. Moreover, the image is also showing the city seal and the city hall at the same image with a good angle. This is my first nomination and I am not sure if this will pass.

Nominated by

Barrera marquez (talk) 09:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Comments

• Thanks for your nomination here. While there's a lot of appealing elements in this picture, it would not pass at FPC for a number of reasons. Probably the biggest issue is to do with composition. In a lot of ways I think this image is trying to show too much, and that reduces its encyclopaedic value for any specific thing. Also by trying to show so much there's things cutoff all over the place, e.g., the left and bottom of the seal 'holder', the city hall looks cut off to the right, even the lamp-post that's not vital looks sloppy being cutoff at the top. Additionally a few things could have been done just to improve the composition here - for example, 20secs earlier and the horse and cart may have been an attractive addition, 20secs later and they wouldn't be there, but right now it's there cut in half. Similarly the man in the pink shirt is a distracting element - he's a clear element in the picture taking a prominent position, but he is distracting from the subject of the picture which is the buildings/city. Overall the composition comes out as pretty messy and really looks quite snapshotty, with no clear subject of the picture. Other things that would be of concern at FPC include the size (yes it meets requirements, but only just, and this is usually frowned upon, especially in repeatable 'scenery' type shots like this), and general lighting (it's OK, but not special, for example the seal is pretty shadowy and the sky is a pretty nothing overcast look). This is clearly a useful image, but could be improved in a number of areas. Thanks again for your submission. --jjron (talk) 08:29, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

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