Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Quest field entry

Entry to Qwest Field[edit]

I found this photo on the American football portal. I think this is a beautiful image. It is encyclopedic in that it shows what the main entrance to the stadium looks like. Does this have potential? Should we try to straighten it and/or crop it on the left to be more symmetrical?

Nominated by: Johntex\^talk 07:55, 5 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It is a nice image, but I suspect the stadium has been designed around being highly symmetrical. If you cropped the left as you suggest, it would help the symmetry, but not really improve the image - what it needs is the part of the stadium that is presumably missing at the right. Part of the problem is that this has been taken slightly to the right of centre, which throws the symmetry out, and that can't be fixed. The 'falling back' projection is also a little uncomfortable. It's also not in a proper article. I suspect if nominated at FPC it would get a response of being easily reproducible (an outside shot of a sports' stadium) so the flaws I've mentioned probably wouldn't be excused. I don't say 'never' here on decent images like this, but despite its appeal I'd give this little chance of success. Thanks again. --jjron (talk) 10:36, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Jjron - you make good points. One clarification is that the image is in a proper article; it is in Qwest Field. That is not where I happened to find it so I think my nomination may have caused confusion on this point. Johntex\^talk 08:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It was only added to that article (to the gallery mind you) the day after I replied. See here. --jjron (talk) 09:25, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it looks like it has been moved around. When I saw it, it was the picture in the infobox. Johntex\^talk 20:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've checked back through the page history of Qwest Field to the start of March and can't see where this was ever in the infobox, even temporarily. Could you please link to it? --jjron (talk) 07:46, 12 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Really? Well, perhaps my memory was faulty; I may have just seen it on the portal page. I will take your word for it and I apologize for the confusion. At any rate, I accept your points about the photo itself; it is probably not suitable due to the asymmetry. Johntex\^talk 17:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No problems; this is the purpose of PPR. --jjron (talk) 06:54, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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