Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jaffa clock tower

Jaffa Clock Tower

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Original – Jaffa clock tower constructed between 1900 and 1903 of the Ottoman period.

Reason

High quality, high EV. One of seven Ottoman-period clock towers built in Israel/Palestine and located in the ancient city of Jaffa.

Articles in which these images appear

Jaffa Clock Tower, Jaffa

FP category for this image

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Creator

Godot13

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 05:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• Question Is it my eyes or is there a stiching error? Left hand side, level with the white windows of the greenish building the building seems to be sticking out - almost curved... Is that actually how it looks? Or diff angled pictures stuck together? gazhiley 10:23, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• Oppose Nothing is straight here, low IQ is some parts, bad composition. --PetarM (talk) 11:33, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• Comment – Was gonna say is it just me but I guess it isn't. Background buildings appear to show distorted perspective. Sca (talk) 13:27, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• As it appears from other responses above that it isn't my eyes, I Oppose due to stitching and perspective issues... gazhiley 13:42, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - I'll rework from scratch. There is no stitching involved, this is a single image. Perhaps the attempt at perspective correction is too aggressive?-Godot13 (talk) 14:05, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
• Comment re "stitching" error: Leaf backs are very high resolution; something this size is nothing for such a camera. There can't be any stitching errors if there's been no stitching. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 14:36, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
  • I have edited my oppose on the basis of the confirmation from you both. Thanks gazhiley 10:05, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
    • Struck my vote as new vote below... gazhiley 09:15, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
• Comment - gazhiley,Sca,PetarM, Chris Woodrich - I have reworked the image from the raw file and over-written the present file. The raw/original file is also attached as an other version. As Chris mentioned, there is no stitching in this image. The Leaf Aptus-II is an 80MP medium format digital back. Vertical perspective has been centered on the lamp posts in the foreground and background. Very few things are straight in old Jaffa and unfortunately I can't alter the composition at this point. I hope this is better (or at least explains the image).--Godot13 (talk) 03:42, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
  • I get the feeling that there's a bit of barrel distortion; maybe that's causing the issues? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 05:28, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Can't speak to this technically, but there still seems to be something squiffy about the perspective – as if the roof on the round-cornered bldg. in bg is a bit too high. (And it's 6:30 a.m., so it's not me who's squiffy.) Sca (talk) 12:38, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
    • I don't have lightroom on my laptop. I'll try to correct for the barrel distortion on 6/22 when I get home.--Godot13 (talk) 05:23, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
      • Can this nomination be suspended until 6/22 please.--Godot13 (talk) 05:26, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
• gazhiley,Sca,PetarM, Chris Woodrich - One last try at distortion correction... Is this better?--Godot13 (talk) 21:04, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
  • Better, yes, but not best, as the advertisers used to say. Now the tower itself seems to have a bit of lean to it – or is it just my skewed vision? (Maybe a slight bit of counterclockwise rotation would help?) Sca (talk) 21:48, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
    • The problem is that the tower itself isn't actually straight. Try comparing the straight lines on the tower and the nearby, more modern building. If one is vertical, the other leans very slightly CW. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

^{Can we explain the non-straightness of the tower in the caption/text? Is it sorta falling over like Pisa? (Jaffa Clock Tower doesn't say anything about it.) Sca (talk) 20:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)}

• You'd have to provide such a note for basically every building constructed before the 19th century. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:21, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

• Support - Very good EV for the subject. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:32, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support I like the new version - much less distortion... gazhiley 09:15, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support Per above. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:29, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Far be it from me to contradict Adam. Sca (talk) 14:38, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:ISR-2015-Jaffa-Clock tower.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:47, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

• Added image to Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture instead. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 05:47, 27 June 2015 (UTC)