Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Space Needle Panorama

Panoramic View of Seattle[edit]

Original - Panoramic view from Space Needle, Seattle, WA. Pictures taken from the top, almost all around. The panorama starts with Puget Sound on the left and then rotates clockwise, showing Queen Anne, Lake Union, I-5, Downtown and then again Puget Sound with some cranes from Seattle Harbor

Edit 1 - crop, downsample, slight sharpen, some noise reduction

Reason: Great view of the City. PLUS, It shows people what the view looks like from the famous Space Needle.
Articles this image appears in: Seattle, Washington
Creator: photographed by S. Bach, stitched by A. Hornung using Hugin

Support as nominator Rj1020 (talk) 23:54, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support There's minor problems with the details here and there (mostly a lack of sharpness, but the bottom right corner has color splotches) but it's outweighed by sheer scope.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 01:33, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Theoretically could be taken on a better day, but considering perfectly clear skies aren't exactly common in Seattle this is probably about as good as we'll get. faithless (^speak) 02:26, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support Image is not exactly in perfect focus and the right hand side is almost completely washed out by the sun. §tepshep • ¡Talk to me! 15:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Maybe the blown-out area on the far right should be cropped out? CillaИ ♦ XC 04:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The image isn't quite 306˚ as is. Something is better than nothing, IMHO.--HereToHelp ^{(talk to me)} 21:01, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- good quality, informative Dmitry A. Mottl (talk) 06:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Edit 1 I don't think there is any need for downsampling. It just removes data which could be useful Mahahahaneapneap (talk) 19:50, 29 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Edit 1 per Mahahahaneapneap. The original could use some downsampling, but the edit has gone just a bit too far. For example, the stripes of the tower ~13265 px in (which I think would make a good measure of how far to downsample) are not entirely resolved in the edit. If CillianXC still has a copy of the edit before downsample, I'd suggest a width of around 15000px would be better. Thegreenj 03:10, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral —αἰτίας •discussion• 23:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Picture is terrible quality. crassic!^[talk] 18:41, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unfortunately, there is plenty of texture missing on building surfaces, looks like some strange noise reduction. Sharpness is lacking a bit as well. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 23:25, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
'Oppose per Fcb. Cacophony (talk) 01:48, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support ...edit 1: crop a bit too tight. Spencer^T♦^C 01:27, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very vivid and bright picture. — ComputerGuy890100^{Talk to me}_{What I've done to help Wikipedia} 00:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No consensus MER-C 12:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]