Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Zehnder's

Zehnder's edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 1 Feb 2015 at 16:09:51 (UTC)

Original – The facade of Zehnder's, a restaurant in Frankenmuth, Michigan, which was once one of the largest restaurants in the United States.

Reason: High quality, attractive image
Articles in which this image appears: Zehnder's
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
Creator: Chris Woodrich

Support as nominator – — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:09, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – Looks like a nice, locally noteworthy place, but I question the general significance of the topic. (If Zehnder's had morphed into a megachain like Colonel You-Know-Who's, it would be different.) Sca (talk) 17:10, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- The article may not be in the best of shape, but I'd expect it to survive an AFD. "Zehnder's of Frankenmuth is ranked the eighth largest restaurant in the nation based on total sales. ... (It) serves approximately a million guests a year". — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:16, 22 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I quite like this image (and the entire series about the village is really interesting for somebody who lives close to "the originals"). I'm not the best judge of the respective article, but the image seems quite appropriate. Still, there is CA at the foilage at the left side and the columns supporting the sigh and the sky does not look natural to me (that is also the case with e.g. the covered bridge). --DXR (talk) 20:23, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- This is an HDR image; I'm not sure exactly why that happens. It was mentioned elsewhere as well. Does anyone know why that happens? (That also explains the CA - it's actually some movement of the branches in between exposures; removing these ghosts works very poorly in Photomatix) — Crisco 1492 (talk) 21:58, 23 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - Yeah, I haven't made great experiences with Photomatix in bright daylight, either. The CA issue is quite understandable then. Do you use the .tifs out of Photomatix for further editing? I almost always just combine the images and edit the "raw" 32-bit tif (actually of course a Diliff trick). --DXR (talk) 17:54, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    - I do edit the output, yes, though I didn't know that Photomatix has an option for outputting tifs. I'll have to try that next time. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 18:44, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking about this picture for a while now - and what makes me agree it is its future EV. Like in about a hundred years, people would like to know how small everyday Michigan villages looked like. So, support... Hafspajen (talk) 15:36, 25 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The place appears to be fairly notable and the composition given the placement of the stoplight (i.e., inability to avoid it) is good. Lack of sharpness in the branches is too bad, but not a deal breaker.--Godot13 (talk) 19:51, 29 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nicely done. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:59, 31 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – I looked at this a few days ago and it's a quality image of an interesting place; yes, the article could stand some expansion as there seems to be a lot of history behind this place and hopefully that will happen. SagaciousPhil - Chat 10:46, 1 February 2015 (UTC) well, Crisco, I sat in the restaurant for days waiting for you to treat me to a meal ... now you're back in Indonesia I expect lots and lots of flowers to make up for you standing me up! [reply]

Well, I've got this for us... — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:54, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perfect timing; it's 11am, Sunday morning here, so I'll have this for brunch, please! Bacon and I hope that's some scrambled egg? Truly scrummy! SagaciousPhil - Chat 11:04, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Zehnder's Chicken Restaurant, Frankenmuth, Michigan, 2015-01-11 01.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]