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[edit] Brise soleil on Milwaukee Art Museum

The brise soleil on Santiago Calatravas's Quadracci Pavilion of the Milwaukee Art Museum in three different positions. Image 1: open.
Image 2: closing.	Image 3: Almost closed.

Reason

After the failed nomination earlier this month I was intrigued by the building and looked for better versions of the brise soleil. This set of pictures from Flickr captures the entrance of the pavilion at sundown, just when the brise soleil is closing, and gives a better idea of its purpose. It also has a quite beautiful atmosphere. I did some cleanup work on the image, but I did not retouch the right wing of the sail, which seems to have some surface damage. (Note this is not a representation of the whole pavilion, which should be covered from a different angle.)

Articles this image appears in

Brise soleil

Creator

Mulad (on Flickr)

Nominator

trialsanderrors

• Support — trialsanderrors 03:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
• Question Are all three of these images being nominated as a single image, or are we supposed to select the one we like most? Basar 06:48, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Your call. I'd say it's sufficient to feature Image 1, but they also work as set. ~ trialsanderrors 08:04, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Well then, I'm willing to go out and support picture 1. I can understand why some people may have trepidation because of the cars and people in the picture, but I'm willing to overlook that because of the composition which I feel is good, the quality, and the enc value it has. Basar 17:37, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I thought about removing the cars but didn't because by good luck they have the same color as the background. Next round of retouching I'll remove the dent in the door though :-) About the people, any architecture photographer would drool over them. Thankfully they're all wearing dark colors, so they add a human element without distracting from the main subject. They're almost like the human props drawn into architecture sketches to add the impression of habitation. ~ trialsanderrors 17:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I suppose you are right about the people; they are sort of nice. Basar 00:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support a composite image of all three, which would have great encyclopedicness. I'd make one but I don't really have the time right now. howcheng {chat} 17:43, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • No worries, I can do it if it finds consensus. ~ trialsanderrors 17:51, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support image 1 - Pretty. I like the light above it. ♣Tohru Honda13♣ 03:29, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

black problems

• Comment, I wanted to support the first one... but the blacks on all of them seem really odd... does anyone else notice this? Look at the bushes, the car tires, and the back of the person with the black shirt. gren グレン 21:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  • Can you be more specific? ~ trialsanderrors 03:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
    • That image are the parts I referenced. The blacks seem to just be hollow and two color not showing any of the detail. gren グレン 03:23, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
      • OK, I can only see it when I invert the picture, but it seems it's a side effect of my way of increasing contrast, which is supposed to give the image a more "metallic" feel. I switched back to normal contrast enhancement. Let me know if that solves the problem. ~ trialsanderrors 04:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
        • It seems to always look like that to me... you told me to comment... but, I have to remain neutral on it. I really don't like that metallic look as you call it... and maybe it's just my monitor... gren グレン 07:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Image 1. I've reduced the size of the other two - let's make this a nomination just for one image, as per normal. I don't think a composite of 3 images would be good. Stevage 02:58, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
• Comment A composite would add an incredible amount of enc. I actually had no idea what this actually was until I saw the pictures of it opening and closing. Granted, I didn't read the article but a composite would be very interesting. CaseKid 06:17, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
  • I added a sequence of images to all individual images now if you click on any of them. It spans a total of six once I get the last one uploaded. ~ trialsanderrors 06:27, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Those pictures to way more justice to the museum than mine did. --Paul 22:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Image 1 Tomer T 15:08, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
• Support Image 1 -Nelro 15:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Milwaukee Art Museum 1 (Mulad).jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 19:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)