Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Garde Church

Garde Church, Gotland (Sweden)

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 23 Oct 2014 at 15:54:16 (UTC)

Reason: I nominate this because I think it's a beautiful, well-composed and well-lighted photo of an interesting building. Garde Church is good representative for the unique church building tradition on Gotland, and therefore has an interesting encyclopaedic value. The license is free and the image verifiable (via a link to the Swedish National Heritage Board). (PS. This is my first FP nom, let me know if I missed anything!)
Articles in which this image appears: Churches on Gotland
FP category for this image: Architecture
Creator: Håkan Svensson (Xauxa)

Support as nominator – Yakikaki (talk) 15:54, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as there is colour fringing (green and magenta on the edges between the dark and light areas), and the tower and spire are leaning over backwards- this is from the photographer pointing the camera slightly upwards. The mass of leaves on the right, although filling in the area nicely is perhaps a bit too dark. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 17:05, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Withdraw Points taken, I will try to find some better candidate, if I can. Yakikaki (talk) 16:59, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The faults are fixable- the colour fringing would take a bit of time though. Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 18:28, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments! That sounds encouraging in principle, but I'm afraid I personally don't know if I have either the software or the skills to do it. -Yakikaki (talk) 19:54, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

If there was a less tight crop to work with, I could probably do something. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:19, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The alt is what I meant. I could probably straighten it a bit better if I had the original file. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 05:46, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Slightly too far

If you've got a spare six months, there's about 200,000 other photos with the same problem… Xanthomelanoussprog (talk) 06:34, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I recognized that. I can play with it further, later, but even then I think the crop is too tight to really be worth being featured. This ALT's just a proof of concept. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:11, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, sorry for my long silence - I'm having a hectic time IRL. Thanks for this very kind attempt to save the picture, I'm actually quite touched, and feel all the more sorry for not being able to provide a really good solution, myself. Such kind helpfulness is always much appreciated. :) Yakikaki (talk) 18:53, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:22, 23 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]