Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:NotreDameDeParis.jpg

Image:NotreDameDeParis.jpg, featured

•  Info created and uploaded by Sanchezn, nominated by Benh 22:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Info Much like the similar nomination below, but Nicolas took the whole façade of the Cathedral. I think it's worth a try at FPC... It was not taken at the same time (more crowded as you can see). This is a mosaic of 6 pictures (2x3) 8 pictures (2x4) -- Benh 22:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support My opinion is biased but I think it's very clean and detailed -- Benh 22:51, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Comment I like it, but it seems to tilt slightly to the right. /Daniel78 00:00, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

 Support I saw your comment on the other image, so maybe the entire church is a bit tilted ? So not sure if it could be corrected without tilting the ground instead. /Daniel78 23:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

• Yes from what we saw, the building lean on the right this way. This picture Image:Notre-Dame de Paris 2792x2911.jpg show similar apparent tilt -- Benh 22:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Support -- Walké 09:27, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- — Manecke 14:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Very sharp Acarpentier 20:53, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support I very much like the stitching errors: they are absent! :). Lycaon 21:25, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --MichaelMaggs 21:58, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support -- MJJR 22:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Stunning details. --LucaG 22:26, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 22:38, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Question it's france... is the lightning copyrighted??? --Jeses 23:14, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

• No, there is no copyright in simple floodlighting. This is not an artistic lighting scheme. --MichaelMaggs 07:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

• To complete Michael's explanation, here is an example of "artistic" lighting scheme which probably cannot be freely diffused Amiens Cathedral. -- Benh 11:17, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Support Love the detail and that crazy funky background. --JaGa 02:53, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Neutral for now (see below). Sting 14:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Question I think very strange some architectural elements are not at the same level than others : guardrails at the base of the towers not horizontal while the ones at the lowest level are, tower of right lower than the left one. Couldn't it come from the stitching ? Because even having been built in the Middle Age, I doubt the architect(s) made such mistakes. Can somebody check this by taking a photograph of the cathedral from the same point of view in one shot for comparison ? Benh, could you do that please ? Sting 14:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• It looks as if it already was like that 62 years ago ;-). Lycaon 14:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Actually, I was there to check the "what I believe to be similar flaws" on my pano below when Sanchezn took that pano. So we were very careful with the geometrical "properties" of the cathedral. For now, you can only trust us.. :) but we'll let you see a one single shot from same POV asap. I don't know where the assymetry could come from. Maybe it was desired (I don't believe that either) but maybe it's because of inaccurate tools used at time of construction ?? -- Benh 20:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Most likely it is due to 'corrections' made by the builders as the cathedral was being constructed. Buildings of this date often have little or nothing by way of foundations and movement can be expected during construction. The famous example is the compensation made during the building of the Tower of Pisa, to counteract the lean which started to happen as the tower was going up. --MichaelMaggs 20:54, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• I know the building is for sure not perfect, but looking at this picture the problems are quiet severe. Notre-Dame is not the Pisa tower and as I've never heard about it (but I didn't study the building in deep), I've doubts. Architectural photography is difficult, even more if making a mosaic, so I prefer have some more elements before giving my full support. Sting 22:26, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Check Category:Cathédrale_Notre-Dame_de_Paris, there a number of single frame images there. /Daniel78 23:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

• Yes, but unfortunately no one shot so well from the front. Snap it slightly from the side and there will be convergent perspective lines which will not give a clear view of the building. Image:Notre-Dame_de_Paris_2792x2911.jpg could have been used as reference, but is also a mosaic. Sting 02:10, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• I found this picture . I think it's what you want. Sanchezn 09:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

• Yes !! Thanks Sanchezn ! Sting 12:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

•  Support --After confirmation of the elements above, full support. Great stitching work without distortions, excellent control of the light, highly detailed picture thanks to the mosaic which was a very good idea. Only the person at the bottom left corner who really looks like a ghost could have been somehow corrected, but it's a minimal detail. Great job, congrats ! Sting 12:51, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Winiar^✉ 10:25, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support --Laitche 16:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
•  Support Basik07 09:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

result: 15 supports, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Benh 13:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)