User:Waysider83
St Peter's[edit]
First I must welcome you to wikipedia! Then I've got to start telling you the hard things. I deleted both your pics to St Peter's.
Reasons:
- They overcrowded the article, displacing pictures which were adjacent to the text that they related to. There is a limit to how many pics will fit. On some screens, too many pics cause chaos to the text.
- They didn't relate directly to the text, which was about Carlo Maderno's changes. The text near that pic of the facade was about just the facade. The pic that was chosen showed all the details, without the dome, the square, the columns, the obelisk etc. The other pic chosen for the article was of the nave. The text was about the nave, most specifically. You view was of the chancel, not the nave, so it had no place in that part of the text..
- Both pics doubled up on pics that were already in the article. The chancel was already represented, and the facade was already represented twice.
- Oversizing pics can be very problematic. You didn't check to see the difference in the appearance of the article before and after.
- Large borders take up valuable space. If you want your pictures used, don't put borders or captions on them. Leave the caption to the person using the picture in an article.
- Layout and colour scheme are important. As an artist, I always try to place pics near each other that are in colour harmony. Pics can either work together or fight each other. This is particularly the case if the subject is similar. So if you put a greyish pic of the interior right near a brownish yellowish pic of the same interior, one of them is going to look out of place. The difficulty here is that one must use what is available, and sometimes it is difficult to find the right pcture.
Can I suggest that you upload your photos again on Wikipedia Commons (without the borders), because they might be very useful in a different article.