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Traditional fishing vessels in port of Mar del Plata, Argentina
Look File:Barcospesquerospuertodemardelplata-00183 02.jpg it isn´t the same composition but same pace Ezarateesteban 13:34, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
... unfortunately that image isn't sharp either :-/ --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 14:50, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Yann: I review the horizon line and it seems to be straight, I uploaded the RAW if you want to try any correction. Regards!! Ezarateesteban 01:28, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, may be it is an optical illusion. But I like this one better. Yann (talk) 21:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: so?, File:Barcospesqueros-alt1-2.jpg Ezarateesteban 22:48, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 8 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 23:02, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Landscape in Seebachern, Albeck, Carinthia, Austria
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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 12:26, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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View of the Hermitage of St Saturio, Soria, Spain.
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Edible white seeds from a Lotus fruit (Nelumbo nucifera)
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Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 12:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fast Food sale counter, Mar del Plata, Argentina

 I withdraw my nomination thanks!!! Ezarateesteban 18:28, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 19:45, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Circumpolar stars in star trails at the La Hague lighthouse, France.
  • Ikan, I suspect they may be hot pixels on the sensor. The automatic technique for removing them is when the camera takes a same-length long exposure with the shutter closed immediately afterwards and subtracts any light "recorded". This "long exposure NR" has to be turned off for star trails, otherwise there would be even longer gaps between the trail segments. It is possible to do this by-hand in Photoshop, by taking an extra shot with the lens cap on, but it may be easier here to simply clone out the odd bright pixel. -- Colin (talk) 19:35, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the possible explanations. 0x010C, do you have an opinion about this? In any case, they're so small and the photo is so impressive, with the rhythm of the trails helping to produce a really dynamic composition. So I'm happy to  Support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:04, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done @Ikan Kekek: I've removed thoose spots. It can have two different origins imho: hot pixels like Colin said or the temporary reflection of an adjacent star due to atmospheric disturbances. Also, thanks for your support! — 0x010C ~talk~ 18:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:26, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 19 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 19:46, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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DRF Luftrettung Eurocopter EC135 P2 "Christoph 44" air ambulance helicopter (reg. D-HDRK, s/n 0477) during takeoff in Göttingen, Germany.
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Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 19:49, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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View from the Seiser Alm to the Langkofel Group, South Tyrol, Italy.
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Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 23:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Railway bridge across the river Elster in Saxony
 Question Is it this bridge ? -- Basile Morin (talk) 15:16, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment No that bridge is not very far from here but much longer.--Ermell (talk) 15:52, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Anatomical diagram of a scaphopod (an unusual kind of mollusc)
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 03:52, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Calving
  •  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 18:03, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - This is certainly a valuable photo, and I'd be inclined to support it for FP, too, except that I tend to think a set nomination of all the individual frames would be more useful. I feel similarly about a VI nomination, but unfortunately, VI sets are no longer awarded because of some kind of technical glitch. What does everyone think about a set nomination vs. one of this collage? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:21, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • In a set nomination, every single photo needs to have FP quality and I think this series might fall a bit short there, but taken as a whole in this collage, it is an outstanding documentation. (Although I agree a bit with Mile regarding some fixes.) Also, the individual photos are there if just one of them is needed. --cart-Talk 18:53, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for your answer, cart, but I have trouble understanding how the lesser degree of detail in a collage could make it a better FP than a set of full-size pictures would be. Are you making a case for downsizing pictures for them to look sharper? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • No, I hadn't got to the size part yet, merely commenting on the scenes/photos/collection as such. You are reading far too much into my comment. :) Of course the FP collage (or each individual photo) should have as large resolution as possible but a smaller version can also be useful since it uploads easier. Sort of like this big one which is a crop from an even bigger file but also exists in a smaller more usable version. --cart-Talk 20:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Do you have the RAW files of each image? (I could help you to fix light problems) and more important, could you upload each image separately in full resolution? --The Photographer 19:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The collage, particularly since each source image has also been uploaded (though I suspect they are not at full resolution). I think it is fine to present an arrangement like this (my own File:Epilobium hirsutum - Seed head - Triptych.jpg). Users have the option to arrange differently if they want, but each individual image is not FP quality. Ikan, I don't think this is about downsizing as there isn't any need to downsize when creating a collage, other than perhaps to ensure the subject, when cropped, is proportioned appropriately. A set nomination would not then be appropriate, but we can celebrate this one in the knowledge that the individual frames are also available. -- Colin (talk) 20:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • This montage is from 2017 but the individual pictures were taken in 2012, and at this time I only shot in JPG (mid res) not in RAW. But the reason why the size of the assemblage is not so large in pixels compared to 3 times the size of each is because all the individuals have been cropped to fit with the subject, as you can see for example on the image 4/9 where the house behind the cow has disappeared on the montage. -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:45, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 20:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 20:28, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Sydney opera house at night
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Result: 17 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 20:31, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Zygopetalum hybrid (Dunkle Blüte)
  • The name Dunkle Blüte does not appear in the International Orchid Register, so it is not an official name for an orchid grex. On the other hand the literal translation does not fit either, since it is anything but dark. It might be better to just call it Zygopetalum (which it appears to be), place it in "uncategorised" with a note as to how it is labelled. I have suggested before, since they are a local, that the photographer make inquiries of the garden horticultural staff. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 19:01, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 23 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 20:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Access to a private property in Gazeta, covered by a Parthenocissus quinquefolia. Álava, Basque Country, Spain
  • @Ikan Kekek: Reverted to the old version, according to the demands of the market. Anyway, it's possible that I'll withdraw the image because it seems that people think that it's not so good as I thought it was. Thanks for your opinion! --Basotxerri (talk) 09:33, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 5 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 03:25, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Saucer magnolia buds starting to flower at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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Result: 3 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 03:39, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hermitage of St Christ of Miranda, Santa María de las Hoyas, Province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain.
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Result: 16 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 00:19, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Bar Aqueduct, Montenegro
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Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 12:34, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Traditionally served Macedonian ajvar
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Result: 14 support, 6 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 12:38, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Nut cake served with wild strawberry jam from the Maleševija, Macedonia
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The mahala of Mitrenci in the village of Stanča, Macedonia
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Life by Tungabhadra River
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Punch Rhodes colossus
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Result: 5 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Laitche (talk) 15:26, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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A filipino guy is covered with volcanic sand in Mindanao
  • Thank you for all the clarifications. Much appreciated. One reason I didn't ask on the other photo was because it was not made by a Commons user and I could not speak directly here on the nomination page with the photographer, the other is that this boy (it is hard to see exactly how old he is) is mostly naked and the other kids are completely dressed. I wouldn't say that this boy is "absolutely unrecognizable", I'm sure his friends and family would recognize him even with the mud. --cart-Talk 23:06, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Far too much (chroma) noise for me to support this for FP, despite the good composition. Also, the right shoulder is out of focus; I wouldn't mind as much if that was the only problem, but it doesn't help.--Peulle (talk) 01:34, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Dear Peulle, by watching your pics uploaded here on Commons I feel to suggest you to check if your monitor is well calibrated: they all have quite an evident cyan dominant that you might not be noticing. The issue might interfere while you watch others' photographs.Paolobon140 (talk) 17:24, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thanks for your suggestion; I first looked at this on my ASUS VS247NR 23,6" LED monitor, and it reveals "flaws" more easily given the high resolution. However, when looking at my new Macbook Pro monitor, I'm still seeing quite a bit of noise and lack of sharpness here.--Peulle (talk) 17:50, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support refreshingly different --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:02, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support When making a portrait, the whole body doesn't have to be sharp as well. Like Martin said, it's different and I find it slightly disturbing in a sort of "Lord of the Flies" kind of way... But that means it extracted an emotion from me, and that's what good photographs do: Create emotions. A "wow" doesn't have to be a good warm fuzzy feeling. --cart-Talk 13:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  weak support Nice composition --LivioAndronico (talk) 17:45, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 23:00, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I do not understand the reason for the camera settings 1/8.000 secs with f/2. The minimal DOF does not work for me. --Uoaei1 (talk) 06:03, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Photographs speak for themselves. If you don't understand, why oppose? a comment is more than enough.Paolobon140 (talk) 10:12, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Weak oppose  Comment I like it, but it looks (partially) underexposed to me: There's almost no detail in the hair, for example, and his irises are almost as black as his pupils (even with very dark brown eyes it should be possible to distinguish them). The cornea are also pretty grey (or actually green due to some kind of noise) – not that one should try to make it pure white ([1]), but this is certainly on the darker side. Quick sanity check: 1/8000 @ f/2 @ 100 ISO is pretty much sunny 16 (so far that combination does indeed make sense if you want a shallow DOF), but it's quite early in the day and the weather looks rather overcast, so I'd probably add at least one stop to that (for a "normal" shot). That being said, I think I get the idea: It's supposed to be dark gloomy. I like that and I totally agree with cart's comments. The problem is not that the over-all picture is a bit on the dark side; that's intended and it works well. The problem is, in my humble opinion, that the head is too dark in relation to the rest of the scene. I understand that this was most likely a spontaneous shot and you probably didn't carry a reflector or a flash with you. But I think a tiny little bit of fill light on the face could have brought you much closer to producing the image you had in mind when you pressed the shutter button. --El Grafo (talk) 10:19, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Dear El Grafo, ty for having spent so much of your time in commenting on my photograph. But id like to put you a question: "Did you think that it might be that this photograph is exactly how i wanted it to be?" I wanted a dark picture, with a dark figure in the middle on a dreamy, unsharp and unfocuse almost lunar background. And the fugure is covered with dark send that has colourful relflections. Thats all. I wanted exactly this picture. Print it on a large format and you will catch what i mean. Frame it with a white passepartout and hang it on the wall and you will see a dark picture of a dark guy on a lunar beach. I will not add more, photographs talk for themselves. But i thought here on Commons we might talk about photography, but im sad to notice here on Commons most of the people talk about sharpness, dead pixels, cropping, the pixel on the right top that seems to have a strange colour, millimetres. I didnt see one single portrait, but sunsets, panormanas, montains and all those exciting things. here one person even said that in one of my photographs culds were "disturbing" Lol. Others said that wires shoudnt be in a photograph, Lol. That is not photography, that is techincalism brought by surveyor whose pics (not photographs) wouldnt even be able to stand in an ABC manual for beginners. Some here said they ignored there is a rule of the thirds. Im not talking about you of course, but all i have seen here is people saying "I dont like th DoF", "if you cropped 5 pixels the pic would be better"; "the left top corner is not enough sharp". Sorry, this is not photography: everyone with s mobile phone camera can take a sharp pic. Other thing is imagining a scene at f/2 in the late afternoon (in your techincal analysis you forgot to notice that being my clock set on an italian time and being th Philippines 6 hours ahead, the photograph must have been taken in the afternoon, right before the seunset. In the Philippines sunset is around 6 pm). Who said a photogrph must be sunny, sharp and with all the dull colours in the right place? SOmeone who is proudly listing his poor photographic cameras and lenses in his Commons profile? Come on, El Grafo, let's be serious and let's talk about photography. Lets leave sharpness, dead pixels, flashes (how many people know how to use a flash here?) and croppings to those who learnt photographing on a mobile phone, where softwares take the pic:-) With respect and sympathy, my last words here.Paolobon140 (talk) 20:35, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Paolobon140: Sorry, not much time today, so I'll have to make it a quick answer. I totally agree with most of what you wrote above. Thanks for clearing up the time thing, I was indeed a bit irritated when I saw the time stamp as the scene really didn't look like early morning. I was trying to talk about photography in the second half of my review, feel free to completely ignore the first half: You obviously had a plan for this image and you executed it very well. When I say that I find the head a bit too dark in comparison to the rest, that's from a "photography" perspective and considering that the dark styling of the photograph. But that's a matter of taste and in any case not severe enough to warrant the oppose I initially gave, so after thinking about it a bit more I've removed my vote. I'm actually leaning towards supporting today, but I think I need some more time to make up my mind. --El Grafo (talk) 09:14, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Rare image -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:39, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support as another National Geographic-level image. Interesting to me how the things that I might normally hold against it, such as the vignetting, shallow depth and excess space on the sides, actually work in its favor here. This boy is definitely a product of his environment.

    And then there is the expression on his face. From whence comes this intensity? Is he friend or foe? I know the photographer has clarified in response to cart's questions above that he is the former, but even knowing that the uncertainty lingers in the image ... Daniel Case (talk) 20:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Comment Thank you Daniel for your deep words that i appreciate a lot becasue they describe this photograph. A photograph is in some way a part of the photographer and being understood is absolutely important. For the shallow depth and excess space: I hav been lately working a lot on the use of negative space in my pictures and if you could see mmy newer ones, you would notice it even more; shallow depth is something i cannot forget in this kind of pictures, where the real look of the background is absolutely not important, being it only like wings in a theatre; background is only negative space that must be filled with a hint of reality.Paolobon140 (talk) 08:32, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 18:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Ceiling of the Room of the giants in Palazzo del Tè, Mantua
  • Here Colin the only cartoon is your opinion that as always makes laugh ..... comparing a video with a photo .... it's ridiculous, different expotion,camera etc.... However, I (naturally) calculated your negative vote. Anyway I understand that some lies you have to invent, otherwise what do you live in doing? --LivioAndronico (talk) 13:12, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • "It looked different in the past" is not a good justification. If this were a scholarly attempt to show what art historians think the fresco looked like when it was newly painted, that would be so noted. It is not. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:41, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 12 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 21:08, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Dome of the Clementine Chapel in Saint Peter 's Basilica
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings
  •  Info The Clementine Chapel was commissioned by Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605), whose coat of arms stands out against the paving. It was begun by Michelangelo and completed by Giacomo Della Porta (1540-1602) for the Jubilee in 1600. The altar is dedicated to St. Gregory the Great (590-604). In a sarcophagus beneath the altar his remains are preserved, brought here in 1606. This Pope, also called the "Savior of the Church" and the "Defender of Rome", is associated with the name of the Gregorian chant or plainsong which he promoted. All by LivioAndronico (talk) 20:46, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- LivioAndronico (talk) 20:46, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Uneven lighting and uneven sharpness. The top left is dark and blue and the bottom is over-exposed. An HDR technique plus some local adjustment could have compensated for the uneven lighting situation. The image is strangly sharp and unsharp in areas that do not seem related to depth-of-field and look more like camera shake. Is this a stitched image? If so, some of your frames are bad. -- Colin (talk) 11:23, 26 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yann, I've added some notes where the unsharp bits are. It isn't a focus issue. It is a long exposure, so perhaps the camera or ceiling shook a little due to tourist traffic? Can't really explain why some bits are sharp other than if created from more than one exposure or serious lens trouble. In addition to these sharpness issues, the light handling is far below the standard we expect from others at FP. I really don't think you'd expect a dark blue corner or a blown bottom from a Diliff, of Code, or myself, or numerous others.... -- Colin (talk) 08:25, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Only for your information Colin and the users in this nomination, the user LivioAndronico had been blocked temporarily for his repetitive lack of respect. LivioAndronico I sincerely hope that in the future your behavior will be at the level of your excellent work. --The Photographer 15:35, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 23:52, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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cheshme belgheis garden, choram, iran
Thanks, fixed!--Mr.Polaz (talk) 20:13, 25 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 23:52, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Result: 8 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 11:54, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Picture of a Black Swan
  • LivioAndronico Yes I agree with the DOF at the back is not the same as front but it does not seem to affect the overall composition and look of the picture especially in the presence of the sharp frontal area. I did select a lower DOF to blur the background a bit when shooting animals at the zoo. Thanks for your input. --Sanjay Acharya (talk) 14:52, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
LivioAndronico had been blocked and maybe can't answer you --The Photographer 15:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Blocked by whom? Thanks for letting me know. --Sanjay Acharya (talk) 17:04, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@The Photographer: Uploaded a second version with added slight warming effect and removed distracting grass --Sanjay Acharya (talk) 20:17, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The top right problem is gone, however, there is something with this image that does not convince me totally, for example, maybe a excessive clarity filter (white are too whites), jpg artifacts and posterization in background. --The Photographer 20:06, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
No clarity filter has been applied by me other than slight sharpening. In my opinion its just the characteristic of the bird's fur/feathers. Check out this another picture that shows similar whites are too whites. Also the artifacts probably are due to higher ISO of 500.
Black Swan RWD2
--Sanjay Acharya (talk) 20:15, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Palace of the Argentine National Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Done Ezarateesteban 20:35, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination thanks!! Ezarateesteban 11:04, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Sunset on the Aresquiers beach
@Basile Morin: ok no problem, I just want to precise that : "and most such pictures are not in essence different from others " is very different from "you will have to oppose all these images by principle" as an extra difficulty for sunset photos, it is quite the opposite : "are not in essence different from others" mean if the image is special then the sunset have not to be "extra special". That is, sunset must not be promoted simply because they are sunset but the opposite is also true sunset must not be declined simply because they are sunset. This image is special because I carefully tried to compose it, with the lines made by the beach and the waves, the silhouettes in the sun light, the perspective, the exposure time carefully chosen to have water not too creamy but just enough creamy, the timing (not easy) to have the waves making lines for the eyes, and of course this colour! ect... I guess, and I hope, that you think the image is not "in some way special" and that it is not just a matter of principle. Christian Ferrer (talk) 06:18, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Christian. Rules shouldn't be an end unto themselves. PumpkinSky talk 12:31, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Christian Ferrer: To answer you, I think this is a good picture, maybe a quality image. But why featured ? -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:15, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Because it may be, from my point of view among our finest, the purpose of that page, you will see in Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena 2 or 3 good sunset showing waves, no more, and if you check the most general sunset category you will easily see that the photos that combine good quality (without over or under exposition) + good composition + special mood + visual interest are not so common, far from that, and my image may be indeed one of the finest. This is only my point of view and of course I agree that you can think this image is not enough special.
But your "copy and paste" from our guideline made me think that you just took there a reason to oppose. And that made me think that you took more time when going to the guideline, searching the right place, copying the right sentence and then pasting it here, than a real review of this image. There is something unwritten in the guideline : "better is a boring image than a boring reviewer", but that is again only my personal point of view. And if you are not concerned by my last sentence, if you really took the time to look at the image and that you are really convinced that the image is not among the finest then ignore my last sentence and I present you my most apologetic...sincerely. Christian Ferrer (talk) 12:43, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This is not a question of principle, just the guidelines seems perfectly right here, to my eyes (subjective). But valid featured images of sunset are for example File:Sugarloaf_Sunrise_2.jpg or File:Bodenseeregatta_Rund_um_2015.jpg, for sure !
Concerning the characteristics of the image, as you ask my personal opinion, I'm sorry to say I find the image rather poor, first underexposed, and then annoying. Flat waves (not breaking at all), flat sky, and dark sand. Only sharp far away, and blurring in front. The beautiful yellow could have been gained on photoshop, this is not the essence of the image, while the blue is pale. So basically I find the picture uninteresting. Regards -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:09, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Oh that's it, that's what I asked, thank you for the review, I'm reassured you've reviewed it. Sorry for taking you off. Thank you again. I just add that I think "underexposed" is not appropriate, I think it is very close to the reality, and the goal of my processing was to stay close to reality, this is dusk, and sooner later it was dark night, therefore the sand is widely enough "clear". Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:22, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
lol :) "cold countries" also have sunsets. "thanks for the cite" : glad you finally could read our guideline. Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:35, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Clear sunsets in countries near the poles are less common due to the weather, in addition the color temperature is more neutral and less vibrant then the Caribe, for example "Los Roques", a place near my house. "The amount of dust in the air -- such as from the explosion of Mount Pinatubo -- increases deflection of red rays of the sun at twilight morning and evening. So the colors are purer. And being in a place where there are 2 long bands of cloud from North to South can allow for a very long-lasting sunset. The light manages first to bounce directly off of the nearer band of cloud producing very deep reds, oranges and can bring a great amount of bright gold to some of the clouds. As the earth turns away the sun still shines and reflects off of the bottom of the band of clouds further west. The red still penetrates. The later light is not as intense or polychromatic, but when seated appreciating the serenity and beauty of a sunset, an extra half hour is ever-so satisfying". [3] BTW, Dear Christian Ferrer, please assume good faith and don't take the comments personally and remember that when you post a photo candidature here you agree to accept criticism and respond politely, for example, my recommendation is avoid making appeal to ridicule like "glad you finally could read our guideline". --The Photographer 19:05, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks you all and sorry for my skid, me too I think it is a bit more than just a sunset, I changed the fp category to "place". I should avoid embarking on endless and unproductive debates, it always leads me into the wall... Christian Ferrer (talk) 05:34, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Ujście Warty National Park
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Shaded trail
  •  Question - Why do you think it's OK for you to write "there is no composition"? You can say what you think is lacking in the composition, but that kind of remark is pretty objectionable, considering that some of us think this is a great composition and I actually posted that very phrase verbatim. So what that means is that we either are seeing something different from you or have a different concept of what "composition" is. It's also a rude remark. I try to be careful to post "The composition seems random to me", rather than "There is no composition". I hope you can see the difference between the tones of those two statements. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan, I know the distinction you are getting at, but per COM:MELLOW we can appreciate that foreign-language writers may not always express with the nuance of a native English writer [though we both know of other users for whom language difficulties haven't hindered their ability to throw obvious insults]. All our comments here are "in my opinion" and "I think that..." sort of comments. I do sometimes wonder at the "great composition" support votes because that can seem rather vague to those that really aren't seeing a great composition. It's one of those things like "beautiful" that doesn't really explain your rationale, just expresses your satisfaction. We have here a country path. There are lots of such photos so a path disappearing into the distance isn't automatically a great composition, even if a widely used motif. And there are trees arching overhead, but they don't quite form any interesting pattern. So... what is great about the composition? If you think about the most famous woodland avenue: search Google images for "The Dark Hedges" (of Game of Thrones fame) you will see the best photos have great light or great weather or make use of a person in the frame. Here, I just see that the photographer was out for a walk on a sunny day along a pleasant path and raised the camera to their eye to take a photo. There's just a bit too much chaos for me to identify a "composition" and the light is harsh. -- Colin (talk) 16:40, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
thanks you Ikan but it's ok, no problems. There is no need to argue for my images, if it is so successful then the votes will be justices, otherwise it is that the critics must be true. I should not had grumble the last time... Christian Ferrer (talk) 17:07, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really arguing for your image in this case but discussing the language used to oppose it.
However, Colin, to elaborate on why I find the form very good, it's because of how I feel the arabesque when I look around the picture frame, and also the way the dark and light alternate. If you either don't see that or it affects you differently, that would be why we differ. I do agree that "The Dark Hedges" is a more obviously striking scene, but I think the shapes and lines in a composition like this one can be just as valid a reason to support a picture for a feature as a scene that's immediately striking. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:14, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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San Francisco Federal Building
  •  Info The facade is slightly curved. It bulges out towards you. As such, the vertical lines bend outwards on both sides. This lens has little or no distortion, and perspectve correction was applied to remove any perspective distortion. Perhaps this angle makes it more obvious. dllu (t,c) 10:30, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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Garska River, Macedonia
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Five children on a motorycle
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Ikan Kekek There are several pictures taken with a tripod. Then they were put together with a panorama software (PTGui). --Böhringer (talk) 21:35, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for explaining. Are the curves in every room original or just the product of this combination of photos with different vanishing points? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 21:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]


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Hunza Valley in Pakistan
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Camp Creek State Park - Marsh Fork Falls
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One World Trade Center viewed from the interior of the Oculus.
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture
  •  Info all by me — Rhododendrites talk06:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Viewing the rebuilt One World Trade Center through the top of the Oculus, part of a new transportation hub adjacent to the World Trade Center site. For context, the design of the Oculus is directly connected to the September 11th attacks, with its axis following the angle of the sun that morning, at the time the second tower fell. Nominating after a suggestion at QIC. — Rhododendrites talk06:48, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment This would work if blue line was on diagonal, rotated is better, but pixels are missing. I would reshoot. --Mile (talk) 07:07, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support It is a very well composed photograph, where the slighty diagonal adds dinamicity to the whole sublject; those ights on the left are placed perfectly. The general grey tones looks very fine. In some way it looks like a palm tree leave. Excellent job!Paolobon140 (talk) 10:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Great photo. I'm not sure the OWTC would fit in (and be upright) the opening if this was done diagonally. The juxtaposition of that significant building adds a layer to the compo. --cart-Talk 11:03, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support PumpkinSky talk 12:45, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The horizontal aspect doesn't work for me. A vertical aspect crop (e.g. 3:4) strengthens and enlarges the central arc/building and has less of the rather grey walls. However, I'd prefer if this were done with a camera held that way, than further cropping this image -- it's already not particularly high resolution/detail. See File:WTC Transporation Hub interior 2017b.jpg -- not a great photo but shows the same subject in a vertical orientation. Looking at the category, I'm sure we can expect several FPs from this spectacular building, and several other attempts at this particular view (see [4], [5], [6], [7]). An HDR approach may also handle better the contrast between sky and interior which surely doesn't look that dark to the eye. -- Colin (talk) 12:58, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • So now we are opposing to photos on the grounds that there might some day be better photos here? Sounds strange to me, to be honest. Also this crop shows the "palm tree leaves" better. --cart-Talk 13:19, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • cart It's a generous suggestion. Don't underestimate hobby photographers what they can do to get great shot. Much more than reshoot. I did try that on Adobe, before I wrote. --Mile (talk) 14:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart, no, that's not the main reason for my oppose, which is the frame-orientation and the lighting. However, although this view was new to me, and is an interesting combination of the two elements, I'd like to support a photo at FPC because it is a great photo, not just because someone pointed a camera at a great subject. And also I do try to ensure the image is among the "finest" by checking out the category. Hence I shared my opinion that this building was spectacular and worthy of several FPs.
If you search on Google Images for "st paul's from one new change" you will see many photos where the photographer has framed St Pauls cathedral with the glass sides of "One New Change" shopping centre. Or search for "st paul's millennium bridge" where St Pauls is framed with the leading lines of the Millenium Bridge. Both views of St Pauls are "wow" views, captured innumerable times by millions of tourists, but that doesn't necessarily make any photo of it a "wow" photo. So, I think this here is a wow view, in a building with lots of potential, but I don't think the photo here is a wow photo for me. And I'm happy to wait for one. -- Colin (talk) 14:38, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Zrze Monastery with the hermit's caves beneath, Macedonia
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Alphorn blowers at the Sanon hut, Seiser Alm, South Tyrol, Italy.

 Info All you expect from the Alps: Alpine pastures, mountains, barns, cows, alphorns...  ;-) --Llez (talk) 08:17, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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View of the Metropolis Building, an office building located in the center of Madrid, Spain.
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View from east edge of bridge south of Shady Woods
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Chicago skyline, Illinois, USA.
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Washermen, Varanasi
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Campbell Waterfall at Camp Creek State Park
  • Uhm, there is something I must be missing. When a photographer is taking a photograph, we are assuming that he hes already in his mind and eyes how the picture will be. By composing in his viewfinder, he alredy has very clear in his eyes a preview of the printed photo. If a photographer is taking a picture and then reach a result by cropping and reviewing what he has shot, hes not a photographer, he is a graphic, maybe good for the web. Am i wrong? Or am i missing the final scope of photography? Paolobon140 (talk) 14:57, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • That may be true if you are a seasoned professional photographer. Here most of us are hobby/amateur photogaphers and we often discuss improvements in each other's photos. That way we learn from each other and can take better photos in the future. The Wikiproject is not only about gathering knowledge and images, it is also about learning. --cart-Talk 15:17, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Like this photo, Paolobon140 !? ;-) Besides, a lot of motifs simply can't be properly taken without doing some necessary work in post - like cropping. Example: architecture shots without TS lenses. You keep your ultra wide angle lense straight (=perpendicular) and cut of any unwanted foreground later. Besides, as a media archivist: Historically, many important/iconic/famous images were actually cropped to some extent. I kid you not. ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 16:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes dear Martin, exaclty like taht photo! That photo is part of a larger series (about 36 photos) which was a kind of travel documentary between Vietnam and Thailand. All the 36 pics were taken to be cropped and printed with the ratio you see in the file which has been adapted to 1000x444 pixels. All the 36 pics have been worked to obtain the same acid colour, similar to some cross-processing. In that way the whole set of photos has the same printing size and the same colour look. When i was shooting in the streets or on trains, markets etc, i was already imagining that the final pic would have been cropped to that ratio and i kept some air on top or on the bottom part. It is quite diffcult to do, but we can get used:-) Unfortunately this particular pic is a bit blurred on the right woman's face and has been discared. But notice when the photograph is printed at 25 cm width you cannot notice the blurred area (thats why i think pictures should only judged when printed) But i can upload the full size originaal pic so you can judge. I understand your point of view: my way of photographing is "no crop" so that every pic can keep the same lens width: if you shoot with a 28mm the picture must look like if it is taken with a 28 mm, not a crop of the pic. That is the reason why i only use fixed lenses, so that the photographer will have to move to search for the good scene, and not the lens. Its a suggestion i always give: use fixed lenses so that you will have to move to search frr the best scene-) Paolobon140 (talk) 17:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Paolobon140, I think I got you now re: "cropping despite a no-crop policy." Besides, please do keep in mind that there's a couple of very experienced photographers here on FPC. I'm sure you just hope to give valuable hints and input (which you actually do for many beginners) - but be careful not to sound overly condescending when doing so. Just a (truly friendly) advice. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 18:00, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dear Martin, yes i understand everyone has his own way of seeing photography and when i comment on a photo here, I never look at the name of the photographer and i never look at his portfolio on Commons, just to avoid being influenced from other pictures of the same photographer. I find it a good idea for myself, as it gives me the possibility to concentrate on the picture only. I have seen really good pictures here and i like many of them, and when i see a picture i like, i get enthusiastic! For the crop-no crop policy: I always try to compose a picture trying to preview how the pic will look without cropping it; its a god exercise (for me, of course) becasue it forces me in finding the best composition and keeping the characteristics of the lens intact. I usually shoot with 28 and 35mm lenses; i abandoned 20mm becasue they are too wide for my taste. I recognize the very experienced photographers here and i feel a bit shy to comment on their pictures cause i feel they dont need comments:-) By the way, for the crop-no crop matter, here is the original format of my picture taken on a train: https://ibb.co/eB88A6 I keep liking the non cropped one more and may i ask your point of view?.
  • Interesting pic, crop or no crop. There's a couple of technical issues that might give a potential nom here a hard time - but from a purely pictorial point of view a keenly spotted example of travel photography. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:48, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Paolobon140, you come on very strong in your opinion about photography. I'm sure no one will ever dare to suggest a crop of any of your photos after this explanation, but please keep in mind that there are as many ways of photographing as there are photographers. I hope you will allow us to continue our suggestions and discussions here between us on other nominations than yours. --cart-Talk 18:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • LOL Cart, if this is a kind way of saying you will not comment of any pic of mine anymore, well, I am a bit sad for that. I like to comment on pictures and i like to share the ones I find sharable here:-)Paolobon140 (talk) 19:55, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Of course not. You will have my two cents in spades. :) I will only think twice before suggesting a crop. I will see your photos as something I can support or not, but I'll not suggest any alterations since I understand that you are uncomfortable with such. Oh, and you might want to re-think the "look at his portfolio", there are women here too, strange as it may seem. ;) --cart-Talk 20:33, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, Baso, glad you like it so much and I agree about the crop. PumpkinSky talk 18:42, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Cart! I've had some great mentors ;-) PumpkinSky talk 19:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Camp Creek State Park - Campbell Falls WV
Glad you like it! I think it has a fugacious sensation to it. PumpkinSky talk 03:36, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Smile! -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:47, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Shady path
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Mortar and pestle with cloves of garlic and a bowl of garlic sauce on a cutting board
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Fishing boy sitting on a boat in Laos
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Traditionally served potato soup with peppers and cloves of garlic
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Dish of blueberries
  •  Comment Yes, stacking - you can see Category bellow: Focus stacking images of food. I even try more to be out, not so sure, but sometime, when shooting one type of food you dont need to focus on all. Here neither i want to. Problem is those 4 were so close, and on macro all is so close. It's not paper, see the bottom in one of those 4, its white background - textile. So, i even wanted back of it a bit out of focus. Food shots arent panorama, unfocused stuff in very often presented. White bowl, white backgoround → bowl doesn't need to be sharp, if black back and white bowl then borders should be more sharp. Some poeple even join (blurr) white bowl with white back. --Mile (talk) 19:27, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The problem with a partly-done focus stack, as we see here, is the rather abrupt change from sharp fruit/bowl throughout most of the image, and the front portion. This is not how one's eye sees it nor how a typical photograph works. We normally get a visual clue about distance in a 2D image like this, by the way the focus slowly changes, but here that clue is disrupted and the effect is a bit artificial. To be honest, I don't see the need to focus stack food photos, and doing so gives the impression that FPC or good food photography somehow needs front-to-back sharpness. -- Colin (talk) 12:37, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Actually my intention was to focusstack just piece of it (and more wider than single shot would do), so not all. Since i put 4 down on right, i wanted them sharp, thats why blueberry on left (in bowl) seems out. Different stuff is in this shot, different fruits and i wanted them sharp, so stacking needed. And one more is above now, cake, not stacked, i like it as it is. And i dont know how much now people want it to be sharp, what portion... So best, do as you consider best. One will vote not sharp, one will say dont stack. So best is up to my taste. --Mile (talk) 13:44, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Support--Peulle (talk) 22:03, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Impressive. Focus stacking often leaves stacking errors in the merged photo. Either you got lucky with the initial merge or you spent a lot of time fixing stacking errors. Only one of my stacks has got to FP. PumpkinSky talk 13:57, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mile, PumpkinSky and anyone interested. If you have trouble with stacking a lot of photos, you can reduce the chance of stacking errors by stacking the pics a few at the time and then combine those. Say you have 18 pics, taken in a sequence of say back to front and you want to process those in Photoshop. Combine three photos at a time: 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12, 13-16 and 17-18. After that you combine the first resulting three and the last resulting three. Finally you combine those two photos. That way your software don't have so many parameters to check against each other and you get cleaner pics with less post-stacking to process. --cart-Talk 21:59, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart, Mile, and all others: Thanks Cart! A wise photographer also taught me that even though for a particular single shot you may want f10-11, if you are taking multiple shots for a focus stack, to cut that to say F5-7 or so. PumpkinSky talk 23:48, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Might be some on it, but i am used to correct it manually, doing stack you need to learn. PumpkinSky thats because software is taking sharp part, my m4/3 and APS-C is more on 5-7 than 10-11, that is for FF probably. But FF isnt good for macro. --Mile (talk) 08:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Ikan Kekek one of those 4 out should be sharp, if not stacked nothing is fully sharp. Doing single shot is option, but probably something like this. There was cake yesterday, nice looking cake. They minus it i couldnt even vote. Because was "not sharp". One more reason, i couldnt make one for English Wiki and one for Commons. Since i know there might be problem. --Mile (talk) 17:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Dolmen Chabola de la Hechicera ("The Sorceress' hut") in Elvillar. Álava, Basque Country, Spain
 Support Better now. Daniel Case (talk) 23:57, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It still doesnt work for me. It look more like a cartoon that a photograph, with dimensions of stones which is not understandable. The picture looks overworked in photoshop and the result is something i find quite fake. Paolobon140 (talk) 10:56, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Oberlicht im Brunnenhaus in Bad Kissingen
  •  Comment I was thinking about limiting myself to the square, but the mixture of daylight and artificial light points is interesting. Therefore it is better that the area around the window is not too bright.--Ermell (talk) 17:42, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Location on the Cañón de Añísclo trail, Bellós River and streamed boulders. Sobrarbe, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
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The main office complex of the ADAC in Munich
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Two trees and the sun in a foggy day in Pavia, Italy
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Altar of the Holy Helpers at the pilgrimage church Maria Elend
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Roasted pork rib with potato stew and urnebes
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The Western Wall in Jerusalem at night
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Gilded Vectors of Disease
Mile yes. I wonder if the brief for the artist wasn't "vectors of disease" but just animals associated with public health issues. Snake bite is a public health issue in some countries. Bed bugs apparently haven't been shown to be vectors of disease but are a public health problem. Rats carry fleas which carry plauge. And housefly transmits bacteria but not classic parasites. But today the work is known as the "gilded vectors of disease". -- Colin (talk) 21:19, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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See Jovian clouds in striking shades of blue in this new view taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft.
@Colin: , I understand your point of view, but are you going to vote? :) {{s}}, {{neutral}} or {{o}}? -- Prismo (talk. | contr. | recs.) 19:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Alpine landscape in Seebachern with the Big Speikkofel (mountain) behind), Albeck, Carinthia, Austria
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Ceiling of the church and Monastery of St. Francis, Quito, Ecuador.
Uugh that scene. How could anyone concentrate to be in that room? I'm going to have to go for a lie down and rest my eyeballs. -- Colin (talk) 19:02, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Male Common frog (Rana temporaria) at Muhalnitsa protected locality in Botevgrad, Bulgaria.
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Urheilupuisto metro station in November 2017. The station is part of the Western metro extension (Finnish: Länsimetro) of the Helsinki Metro.
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Msaynevirta --Msaynevirta (talk) 17:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Msaynevirta (talk) 17:16, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Nice composition, but for me not sharp enough for FP. Btw: it is a good Q1-photo. --Michielverbeek (talk) 19:42, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Prismo345 (talk) 22:47, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - It's a large file. I think it's sharp enough, and I really like the long sight line. -- Ikan Kekek (talk)
  •  Oppose - Nice compo but plenty of CA on the lamps and unfortunately not very sharp.--Ermell (talk) 08:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  weak support see note, I'd suggest a tighter crop that helps get rid of unecessary elements and strengthen the compo --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I find it an excellent picture with a smart composition divided in thee vertical parts: colours are bright and the presence of few people gives more warmth to the photo. All the right part is interesting with its colours and decorations, the left part shows that this is actually a metro station. Well done.Paolobon140 (talk) 10:47, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't think it is quite at the level of most of our other similar metro FPs. There are others that are no sharper than this, but it would have been a plus if it was sharper. However, I think the station either needs to be empty of people or else they are helping the picture. Here the eye is led towards a random clump of people facing away from the camera wearing dark clothes. It would have really made this photo if we had a larger couple walking towards us (or the train) and colourfully attired. -- Colin (talk) 18:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment This matter of sharpness starts being annoying. Even the Last supper by Da Vinci is not sharp. I ask you all to reconsider your ways of judging a photograph Paolobon140 (talk) 18:32, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Paolobon140, I kind of agree that sharpness shouldn't be a reason to oppose this. If we look at the many other metro photos we have, most of them are no better. Often this is because tripod photography is not permitted, or longer exposures mean people aren't sharp. I share your despair about pixel peeping and have written about it here. If you note my review carefully says that if this was sharper that would have been a plus. We are drawn to the people in the image, both because we are drawn to people anyway and because the lines lead us there, and they are disappointing -- soft dark shapes walking away from the camera, overlapping with more distant people. Interior photography at FP level does I think require some patience and perseverance to capture the scene when quiet or when the other people are cooperating. -- Colin (talk) 18:41, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • Colin, i understand your point of view but i think we should start talking about this catchphrase about sharpness. A picture talks by itself, and sometimes sharpness is not a plus or its even a minus. Ok, i will take a close portrait of an aged woman, lets say about 60 years old: what kind of lens will you use? I would use a 100 mm softfocus lens, which is intended to reduce sharpness, in order to avoid to show the old lady how old she is in her photograph. The result will be a good possibly unsharp portrait where an aged lady doesnt show all the wrinkles etc. I might even use a red filter in addition if im shooting black and white, which is reducing sharpness even more. Then i will post that photo here. What will i get? A number of "oppose" becasue the photo is not as sharp as the people here like? Colin, i find you a very good counterpart here in discussing about photography, so can you please answer this question of mine? And whou will tell the impressionists that their paints were nt good becasue not sharp enough? Paolobon140 (talk) 19:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
        • In my essay on pixel peeping I tried to separate "bold subjects" from "detailed subjects" to consider what level of perfection we might need/expect in an image at pixel level. And of course there are other groupings such as impressionistic or portrait photography. When I mention a "plus" for sharpness (detail), I'm thinking of the sort of image that could well be blown up huge and enjoyed in great detail and I've taken a few of them myself. But for many pictures I'd be happy if it prints in high quality at A4, say. In my experience, portrait photographs get a rather hard time at FPC and very few of us reviewers have ever tried to take any such photos for FP. So you can work out for yourself that review comments for those are likely not based on personal experience, unlike the dozens of photos of architecture for example. I'm afraid your 100mm soft focus photography has gone out of fashion and we are expected to pay $1500 for this or this super sharp lenses, and the Photoshop the result. So yes, your soft focus grandma may well be killed at FPC. But sometimes not: FPC is a roulette wheel. I think if your old lady was an interesting enough subject and you displayed great skill with lighting, then you'd have people going wow before they click the magnify button on their browser. -- Colin (talk) 19:25, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Paolobon140, if you want to get acquainted with what sort of photos get promoted to FP without having perfect sharpness, you should take a look at the work of Tomascastelazo. His photos often have such intensity and wow that sharpness comes a distant second. Examples: 1, 2. Or the work of Ggia with photos like these: 1, 2. Sharpness in photos is only a factor when it is possible, expected or vital for the composition. It is not always demanded for FPs (examples: 1, 2). --cart-Talk 22:41, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • While I'm most certainly no stickler for petty pixel peeping, I don't think we should deliberately disregard all technical qualifications when assessing an image. I do agree that overall sharpness tends to be an overrated category though. That being said, I (personally) would not use a soft focus lens (or "secretaries' prettifier" as my organization's old photographer used to quip). Ever. But that may be a matter of taste. Paolobon140, please do go ahead and nominate bold images. But please don't be too disappointed if the roulette wheel turns against you. Been there myself, done that myself, experienced that myself. So did Colin and many others... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:20, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Paolobon140: I agree with most of what Colin, W.carter and Martin Falbisoner wrote above. Commons FPC already sets itself apart from similar places at the Wikipedias by requiring some kind of wow-factor. That's a pretty subjective thing and people are used to see the "wow" in a beautiful landscape, a well-reproduced painting or even in technical perfection (focus-stacked HDR extreme macro). But the Wikimedia projects have always been more about content than about form, so it is difficult for some people (including myself, I guess) to get away from that and see the "wow" in the photograph itself. I think the appreciation for those "bold" nominations has been growing considerably lately, though. Heck, I almost managed to get the star for a massively grainy film shot taken on a semi-functioning SLR from the sixties ;-) I, for one, would very much welcome more photographic "wow", so please keep 'em coming! --El Grafo (talk) 13:05, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose Like Mile, but vice versa. Composition OK, but sharpness too low. --A.Savin 20:00, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Mackay Island Wildlife Refuge
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Fishing in El Manglillo Bay, Margarita Island 15
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Skylight in the Cybele Palace or Palace of Communication, located on the Plaza de Cibeles, Madrid, Spain.
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Yachts at Zoebigker harbour (lake Cospuden), Saxony, Germany
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Rural way in the Alpine region of Seebachern, Albeck, Carinthia, Austria
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 Question Fedaro, since this wasn't done by NASA and we can't see deep space with standard camera gear, what camera/telescope did you use? PumpkinSky talk 13:01, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Question - Why is it unfair in FPC to compare the work of a Wikimedian astronomer that was funded by Agencia Nacional de Investigación e Innovación de Uruguay with NASA photos? Is there a new category of "photos by Wikimedians" that we should separately consider, or is Featured pictures/Astronomy the correct category for considering this photo? Do you feel the same way about reproductions of paintings: That we shouldn't consider the photos put out by museums or Google Art Project when deciding what is an FP? I would disagree. FPC is about the best of the best, regardless of source. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:19, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ikan: I didn't say that your are wrong, I just said that, specially in cases like this one, it's unfair...Poco2 18:57, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Poco a poco: I wasn't comparing it to NASA work, not implicitly and certainly not explicitly. I was just saying it's rather busy. I mean, good work for an amateur, but that doesn't change the FPC standard. Daniel Case (talk) 20:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@Poco a poco: There is another astronomy FP by this user: File:Nebulosa de Eta Carinae o NGC 3372.jpg, a better pic than this IMO. --cart-Talk 22:44, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Mackay Island Wildlife Refuge
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Free specimen of Colobinae Jerdon / Semnopithecus - subfamily of the Old World monkeys of the Cercopithecid family - at the Monsoon Palace in Udaipur,Rajasthan, India. The photo wants to tell the degradation produced by human pollution represented by waste and the devastating impact it has on nature
  •  Oppose Distracting background (and noisy) and also we should see the eyes of the animal. This is not waste. People feed these animals. Poorly categorized and described. This is a southern plains grey langur (Semnopithecus dussumieri) Charles (talk) 16:33, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Charlesjsharp and Charlesjsharp: You are right. The background distracts and you can not see the eyes, thanks for pointing out two details that I had not noticed. The bag of chips, however, took the monkey from the ground and anyway I think it represents a sign of the devastation of the environment that a monkey can have access to a bag of chips. The photo was taken in Udaipur, northern India, on December 1, 2017. BuiobuioneBuiobuione talk 19:49, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Green packed silage bales of hay in Galtür. Paznaun, Tyrol, Austria
  • OK, I've removed hay bales, although I'm really not sure what they do technically. As far as I know they cut the mountain grass, let it dry on a sunny day and then they put it in a silage bale. Next time in the Alps, I'll observe this better. --Basotxerri (talk) 12:04, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Grass for silage is usually let to dry off a bit for a couple of days to remove excess moisture, before it's put into silage bales. The things you accidentally learn when you suddenly find yourself living in the middle of farms... :-P --cart-Talk 12:42, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Bridge and castle ruin Neideck
Paolobon140, I'm not sure I understand your oppose here. I see a very high contrast scene, and possibly that is enhanced (+ Clarity, say) but hard to tell here as the light should be high contrast already. But I don't see the artefacts one would expect from over-sharpening -- there's no noise in the sky nor halo round high-contrast edges. The lens used here (7mm, equivalent to 14mm on a full frame) is an ultra-wide so I'd expect large depth-of-field giving near-to-far sharpness, excellent centre sharpness but less good towards the edges. -- Colin (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Der Colin, the pic iss absolutely overshaped, nothing in real looks so sharp, even the sky. Its not a matter of lenses, cameras, mm, focus, apreture. This pic is so sharpened with Photosho that looks more like a cartoon, in my opinion. ANd, more, there must have been something interesting around the ruins to show, as the ruins themselves arae not an interesting subject, at least for me. Paolobon140 (talk) 13:16, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • Paolobon140, I can only think we are talking about different things. When I think of sharpening I'm thinking of (sub)pixel contrast enhancement. I suspect what you are complaining of is local (a region of several pixels) contrast enhancement which with Adobe Lightroom and ACR is achieved using the Clarity control. This can indeed make textures look hyper-real and artificial and perhaps that has happened here. Would Ermell tell us if the image has been boosted in that way, or with some sharpening tool? The EXIF data doesn't indicate any clear adjustment because it has been through four programs (Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.12, Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 9.12, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.7) and the last one didn't apply any adjustments that are recorded. -- Colin (talk) 15:52, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      •  Comment @Colin: @Paolobon140: In Lightroom I corrected perspective, raised the shadows and reduced the lights. Then in Photoshop I removed some lensflares and branches sticking into the picture and then sharpened the picture with Nik sharpener which might not have been necessary. In Lightroom I reduced the highlights again. Sorry for answering so late, I didn't follow the dialogue properly.--Ermell (talk) 09:00, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 Support --Uoaei1 (talk) 13:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Bridge above the dam of Podles Lake under fog
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Shimano Hyperglide cassette 8-speed CS-HG51
    • Cart, let's keep greyscale away! I agree the golden tint to the inner cog is natural but the pink/orange tint to the bottom of several cogs is a reflection as Cart suggests. Either skin or the carpet or something else low down. It should be possible to use Lightroom/ACR colour saturation slider to click on the pink/orange bit and desaturate just that tone. -- Colin (talk) 14:29, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • OK, you want more clinical colors. Probably was from book, this is sitting under some angle, made with book. Situated on book with silk thread above, thread was set not to disturb inscriptions on cogset, and latter removed. Yeap. Use what you have. OK, bottom is redone. --Mile (talk) 15:12, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Woman under yoke carrying wicker baskets
  • PR template added, thanks @Ikan Kekek. I usually always add the template to my portraits. -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:47, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info This person is a neighbour who lives a few houses away from mine. Unfortunately she lives alone, without children at home, and her husband is dead, perhaps the reason of her sad face. But I offered her a print of this photo already and she was extremely happy to receive it, but really much happier than I would expect, perhaps because she had no picture of herself and this one is thus precious. There's another version of this image here. At that moment she had not seen me already. Her face is neutral, and she also looks neutral when facing my camera. At this precize moment when I pushed the shutter button I'm certain she had not already realized that she was taken in picture because I was about 20 meters from her (focal length is 286mm). As a consequence, her facial expression is just natural. Not angry, not joyful, but herself carrying something during the monsoon. After that she was laughing, and I saluted her. -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:05, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Abandoned Virginia farmhouse in Creeds
  •  Comment @PumpkinSky: a) I don't mind the car, but if you want to remove it, do it accurately; there is blur and some parts of the car still visible. b) On the sky, there are still some cloning marks at the right top. c) If you want to keep EXIF data despite of photoshopping, simply put the edited picture over the original and save it. --A.Savin 17:00, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    • @A.Savin: I'm not sure what you mean by "put the edited picture over the original and save it". Here's what I did on this photo, can you tell me what step to change and how: a) edited in LR b) saved to a jpg and upload to Commons (has EXIF data) c) from LR, opened into PS and edited d) saved the file to the same jpg from LR and uploaded the new version to Commons. Thanks. PumpkinSky talk 17:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
      • Well, if you edit your raw data with LR, you have an output JPG file which should still have EXIF data. This file you can edit in PS. Then you have two possibilities: a) you do only retouche etc. but keep the original crop; this means you can save the result and you still have your EXIF. b) You have to make a different crop. If you save the crop, the EXIF is lost, but now the trick I meant: copy the crop, replace the original picture by it, and save it as output file. In this case, the EXIF are not lost. I don't know how to explain it better; if you're still not sure, just try it out. --A.Savin 17:21, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose QI for sure, but unexciting front view of a house. Daniel Case (talk) 20:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I really do appreciate all the input. But after removing the smudge and cropping the car out in LR, when I went to PS to do the power lines and border, it never quite comes out the way I want. So I've leaving the photo as it is in the version I uploaded a few minutes ago. It can sink or swim as is. PumpkinSky talk 22:27, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Doesn't really move me, to be honest. The top crop is too tight for my taste as well.--Peulle (talk) 08:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination PumpkinSky talk 12:05, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 10:57, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Except for US. MAga. --Gary Dee (talk) 22:29, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 13:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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View from the Ristorante Mont Seuc to the eastern part of the Seiser Alm with the Sella Group, and the Langkofel Group, South Tyrol
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Gołuchów Castle, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
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An angel spreads his wing on a tomb at Cimitero Monumentale in Milan
 Comment I reviewed this image on a brand new Macbook Pro, which was pre-checked by a professional technician before handed out to me at work. There is nothing wrong with the monitor. As for the traffic light photos, those were an effort to contribute some public domain photos to Commons, and most of them are not very good.--Peulle (talk) 08:53, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Peulle -- Prismo345 (talk) 20:47, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Nice composition --Cvmontuy (talk) 21:28, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I do like the light on the face and arm. But Peulle is right: the chroma noise is awful and the shadow parts of the picture quite posterised and lacking tonal detail. These both indicate to me the image was under exposed and recovered in post, which you might have got away with on a new Sony or Nikon but the older Canon cameras are poor for that. Unlike luminance noise, chroma noise doesn't disappear much even if I downsize the image a bit, and unlike film grain, chroma noise has no appealing aspects. As an aside, wrt "over sharpening" discussion elsewhere, I do see some oversharpening here, which a clear white pixel halo to the high-contrast edge with the sky. -- Colin (talk) 22:20, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per others, and I also don't really understand why you chose that particular orientation and those particular crops. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:02, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
* Becasue i like that particular orientation and those particular crops, it is quite evident:-)Paolobon140 (talk) 16:44, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Bank myna (Acridotheres ginginianus)
Nope. It looks purplish to me. PumpkinSky talk 00:23, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Peulle and PumpkinSky: New version uploaded. Charles (talk) 12:53, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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View from the Ansberg near Ebensfeld direction Bamberg
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Asian pied starlings (Gracupica contra)
Maybe 8f is too much and 400mm too far. IMHO this low quality is acceptable only when the birds are movement, for example this one --The Photographer 16:05, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Lake Shkopeti, Albania
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Riesenburg Cave in Franconia, Germany
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Bud of Tiger's footprint (Ipomoea pes-tigridis)
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Electric guide 3×2.5 mm
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Buffalos in a boat on the Mekong
  • Yes, the main constraints I had was the speed of the boat and the direction of the sun. Obviously my tripod was of no use here :-) Though I'm still happy with this shot. The other versions I have with the boy looking left make no difference, from my point of view, because his eyes are hidden behind the shadow of his cap, and that detail is probably less important than his particular posture -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:34, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus)

 I withdraw my nomination poor nom. Charles (talk) 09:27, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Nijmegen, de Waalbrug
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Mackay Island Wildlife Refuge
@Ikan Kekek: :Done. PumpkinSky talk 01:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That wasn't the crop or log I meant. I'll try to mark another suggested crop. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:38, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: :Done. Interesting perspective, good eye you have there, but yes, I think this is a good crop. PumpkinSky talk 01:42, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. And I do think it makes the picture a lot better. Johann, do you like this crop? Colin, do you think it improved the composition? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:35, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ikan Kekek, thank you. It improved the image a lot. You are posting very just reviews. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 03:44, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I do what I can. I've learned a lot about photography from participating here, but so far, I'm pretty much only taking cell phone pics and haven't uploaded any yet. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:06, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: With the knowledge and photo eye you have, I'm confident you can take fantastic photos. PumpkinSky talk 11:49, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have a good eye but very limited technique and equipment. But I don't want to hijack your thread more. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 13:21, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Harlem Meer, Central Park
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Alta Park
  •  Comment - Thanks for your review. We'll see what other people think, but what I see other than the sky is a peaceful composition with a good DoF that makes the grasses in the foreground sharp, although the picture isn't nearly as big a file as some other files that have been nominated here lately. If a consensus dislikes the sky a lot, I will withdraw the nomination, but I think it's worth a try. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:25, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural # Switserland
  •  Info View from the ridge to Gürgaletsch (2560 meters) on the Hüenerchöpf in the east. All by -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:50, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't think the vertical format suits this. I just want to see more on the left and right. Your "other version" is horizontal but misses out on the interesting ridge. But the sky just looks really strange. The clouds should be brighter. Looking at the EXIF I see you reduced both highlights (-53, perhaps ok) and whites (-50), and did the opposite for the shadows and blacks. Why boost the contrast +26 then? In my experience, dealing with over-bright clouds/snow is best handled by the highlights control alone, and similarly lifting the shadows is best done by the shadows control alone. I find the blacks/whites controls only really give nice results when used to stretch the white/black contrast (i.e. +white and -black, and rarely ever by the amount the Auto setting wants to do). Trying to use the Whites to lower the brightness of clouds just makes them look dull grey. This was taken at midday, so I'd expect the sky to be bright. The white balance is perhaps a little yellow too. -- Colin (talk) 12:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Support Oh that's so much happier-looking now. And comparing the other framing-options you added, I'm thinking I like this one better now. A small point, would be to do similar for the blacks and allow those dark crevices on the shadow side of the mountain to go black, rather than having so much of a +black adjustment that there's just a lot of dark-grey. -- Colin (talk) 21:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I respect Colin's points but would like to support this photo because it's so striking. Agnes, please address his points and maybe edit accordingly, and then I would expect to support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Monastery of San Juan de Duero, Soria, Spain
  • No, no re-shoot. :) I know that you are very good at post-processing and the clouds are just very white and feature-less compared to the rest of the photo, so I think it would be nice if you could bring out some more details/texture in them. Maybe add a gradient filter to the sky to reduce the exposure just a little bit or something like that, to bring the sky up to the same level of quality as the rest of the photo. --cart-Talk 10:36, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • You have some explanation by cart. What you are looking is burnt, 253 of 255 is overexposured. Just washed white, what viewer wouldnt see. And what is guts-feeling ? I like John Wayne, maybe fast-triggered, but what is guts-feeling ? --Mile (talk) 10:57, 13 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Boston Back Bay skyline
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Full SVG geographic map of Czech Republic
@Ikan Kekek: That's right, it is a very common map. The beauty is not only in the presentation but the details and the format.--Ikonact (talk) 07:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There's nothing unusual about that, either. I've been a geography-lover since I got my first atlas at the age of 6. I'm very experienced in looking at maps, and I just don't think this is that special. If it were 5 or 10 times bigger and more detailed, like the paper maps I had from the National Geological Survey and whatever the Malaysian equivalent was in the 1970s, I would vote to support without a second thought. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:53, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: , I'am not sure you understand the work involved in this map. You indeed just uploaded one file to commons, and doesn't seems to have practical map making experience. Ikonact gathered and processed various massives sources, from NASA to OSM, with multiple different data processing. His map is 100% svg, respects Wikipedia map conventions, for the hardest type of maps we have, the "(Topographic) Exchange maps". If your point is that Ikonact, alone, doesnt equal the dedicated team of full time trained cartographers and painters of the 70s, it's kind of telling SpaceX its space rockets sucks because NASA made larger space rockets back in the 70s, when NASA was 2% of the USA's budget. This map is technically one of the best map made and published on commons, and such works have a label, its Featured image / map / picture. --Yug (talk) 15:42, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know why you're pinging me after the fact, but on FPC, the whole point is to compare images to the best available in their category, and if that means that really diligent work by Commons photographers in reproducing paintings gets voted down because it's not as good as photographs by the museum itself or by Google Art Project, or in this case, that very good mapmaking by an individual gets voted down because it's not so special in the universe of existing maps, that's what should be done. In this instance, however, a consensus disagreed with me, so your post smacks to me of unnecessary triumphalism. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:35, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikan Kekek: There is no really anything about triumphalism. I can just imagine the feeling of @Yug: , who is a known cartographer in Wikipedia, when he sees the statement that this is a very common map. My first reaction was somehow similar but I take your comments as very constructive. Personally, I agree that visually there is nothing exceptional in the map if compared to big editions of Atlas of the World but I do not think that there are too many maps of this quality in Wikipedia and in particular in SVG format. I thank you for your comments because they will help me to generate better maps in the future. I really hope that one day my maps will be able to meet your expectations. Regards --Ikonact (talk) 09:31, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Me too. That would be great. Best, Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:41, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I confirm it was not about post-vote triumphalism, I very simply didn't noticed the deadline for voting. Aside, as a Wikipedian cartographer knowing the workload involved, I wanted Ikonact's work to be judged fairly, including on underlying technicalities which he pushed pretty far. My vote below (not taken into account for the FPC decision due to its date) also explain both skepticism and support for the work. Last, I views the FPC as in the context of wikimedia Commons, while you seems to see it in a broader space, also explaining our diverging appreciation of the work done. Yug (talk) 12:03, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Benh: I use fonts that are supported in Commons. But I can put Helvetica as fall back font. --Ikonact (talk) 07:42, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well that's a bit more complicated I think. The version we see on the thumbnails (and the PNG restarised by Commons' servers) will use those fonts supported. But putting another font of your liking (in my case Helvetica, but don't feel obliged) will only choose it in priority over the other ones when viewed on a device/engine which supports it. Note that Helvetica is available in Mac, but not necessarily in Windows or Linux (the latter has equivalent, and the former can always fallback to Arial which is similar to Helvetica). Also note that I don't know which font you choose (I haven't opened the sources) but the names of the major cities render with a serif font on my Mac. The font should be chosen wisely! - Benh (talk) 09:19, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The last font in the list is 'sans-serif'. I wonder if someone has a serif font in their browser configuration for the default sans-serif.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 03:10, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Benh: , I use Deja Vu Sans Condensed. This is a font supported in Commons. I usually put sans-serif as a fallback font and thus the system can choose the one defined by default. I can put Helvetica and Arial as fallback too. I will check the issue with this file. May be there is something with the fonts --Ikonact (talk) 09:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It seems silly and impossible to account for faulty browser configuration. The sans-serif in the list should allow people to see the font they prefer for all sans-serif purposes.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 02:43, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@RaboKarbakian: There was a problem with the font for the the names of the cities but not for the towns, so @Benh: was partially correct :-) I repaired this and I left Deja Vu Sans Condensed with sans-serif. --Ikonact (talk) 11:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikonact: Ahha, a lesson for me against spot-checking. My apologies to @Benh: not just for being wrong, but for enjoying discussing it. Personally, it is good to know that Benh the wikimedian has not degraded over the years. :) --RaboKarbakian (talk) 15:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@RaboKarbakian: The advantage of doing these maps as .SVGs is that the text can be independently edited, making translated versions much easier to make. Daniel Case (talk) 04:43, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Daniel Case: That is true, and this map might only need the legend details translated for many languages. If it does end up as the POTD, it should have more.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 03:10, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I planned to translate it at least in Czech... It is not difficult as the format is text. That's right that there may be little to translate as the names of the cities (with few exceptions) do not change. However, this may be a challenge for non Latin script languages. --Ikonact (talk) 09:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@RaboKarbakian: I made a CZ version. I will try to make others. --Ikonact (talk) 11:51, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
1. I think there's something wrong with the railroads. The symbol suggested for rail tracks by the legend is alternating white and black segments of equal length. That's good, as that's how this is typically done. However, in the map itself, the length of the black and white segments is totally random. It took me a while to figure out that these are supposed to be railways, I first thought it was another two types of road not mentioned in the legend.
2. You have 2 types of road in the legend, differentiated by color (yellow and red). But in the actual map you have 4 types, differentiated by color and width: yellow-thin, yellow-thick, red-thin and red-thick. Either explain the difference between thin and thick in the legend or make them all the same width. The legend not fully describing the map's elements is a serious no-no.
3. Similarly, neither the triangle used for mountain peaks nor the airport symbol show up in the legend.
4. The placement of text labels (especially for the towns) looks like it was done automatically, which leads to lots of problems. For example, there is an unreadable town name hidden behind "Prague". Prague's airport marker collides with the town Hostivice. Štětí north of Prague disappears in a mess of railroad. In some more densely-populated areas it's very difficult do figure out which label belongs to which town marker (e.g. around Ostrava and south of Zlín). There are many more things like this that need manual adjustmends, and I think clarity could benefit from leaving out some of the smaller towns.
5. Many line features (roads, rivers, railroads) are much more detailed than they need to be for this kind of map. Sometimes, railroads are hidden behind parallel roads or rivers by railroads – straighten them out a bit and pull them apart to show them running in parallel. Again: What's going on in Štětí? Finding the right amount of simplification is crucial for map making, and I think this map would greatly benefit from more simplified/streamlined lines.
--El Grafo (talk) 12:04, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@El Grafo: Thanks for the comments. I can clean up a bit the map by removing the mess of railroad and some of the town names. I will also improve the legend. However, I will not be able to repair the railroad issue. The railways are from OSM and are in small chunks and it is very difficult to stick all together. The only thing I can do is to propose a discontinued line as symbol. This will not solve the issue but will hide it. However, the biggest difficulty I have is your comment number 5. Personally, I believe that by simplifying, the map will loose its value. So if you believe that discontinued line for railroads and no simplification will be acceptable for featured picture I will be happy. --Ikonact (talk) 14:33, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Ikonact: I see the problem with the railroads, I've run into that issue with OSM data before. It's all chopped up into single line segments which makes it really hard to work with for this kind of thing. I wish I had a good solution for that, but I can't think of one right now (ArcGIS probably has some kind of tool for that, though). I'm not sure I really understand what you mean by "discontinued line", but if you can find some way to cover it up I'm fine with that.
I understand your concerns about simplification, but maybe look at it this way: Every map is always a simplification of reality, and lots of the art of making maps lies in choosing the right amount of en:Cartographic generalization (that's the term I was lacking earlier …) for the intended use (think about subway & metro maps). You can see that on online maps like OSM or Google maps, where the type of things shown and the precision e.g. roads are shown at depend of the zoom level. At lower zoom levels, linear features like roads are drawn much broader than they are in reality (otherwise you wouldn't be able to see any of them) and small bends and curves are straightened. They've put a lot of thought into how to do this automatically in software, but they will probably never reach the quality of a map hand-drawn by a professional. If in reality a road runs parallel to a river, the map should show it like that. If the chosen scale requires both to be displayed broader than they are in reality, so be it. If that means that they are too broad to be displayed next to each other, they have to be moved apart a bit ("displacement") because otherwise the map would be misleading (e.g. showing the river flowing beneath the road). You could say you have to lie a bit to get the message across, but keep in mind that you are not publishing raw geographic data here that is intended to be viewed at the scale of a few metres.
So long story short: The right amount of generalization is crucial for a good map (dozens of books and research papers have been written about that), and I think yours could use a bit more of it over-all. It won't lose it's value – quite the opposite, imho. But hey, I know I can be a pedant, so if the majority of the voters here think it should be featured I'm totally fine with that. Cheers, --El Grafo (talk) 16:11, 15 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @El Grafo: I am working on a new cleaned up version. I will try to address your comments but may be not everything on generalisation :-) Cheers --Ikonact (talk) 08:27, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support. Take 5 minutes to examine the work of it, 100% svg, and what it means has earlier skills and processing, and you realize it's quite an impressive work relative to Commons.
    On the semiology, I must agree with El Grafo's points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but it can be fixed and should be. Railways (1) will be technically tuff to solve : OSM provide multi-lines paths, upon which your CSS/styling fails miserably. Yet, the work is already impressive and with the expected fixes at the top of Wikimedia commons maps. Yug (talk) 15:42, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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View around Casino Central at sunshine, Mar del Plata, Argentina
 Comment Sorry, 'wow' I know, 'piff' I might guess, but what is a 'pizazz'?--Christof46 (talk) 19:12, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination thanks!! Ezarateesteban 11:07, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Fallout 4 pin-up style cosplay
  • 300 dpi, why ? I see my screen, it is showing correct ppi/dpi... otherwise than migth change it. This can be printed on A3 and you wouldnt know dpi/ppi. Isnt that pixle peeping ?! I rather see quality on 2 MPx than 20 MPx of failed colors. --Mile (talk) 22:32, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Canal Grande and Rialto Bridge, Venice
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15th century terracotta works, Khania Dighi Mosque, Chapai Nawabganj.
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The is the oldest active fireboat in the world. Here it is escorting to Buffalo's Inner Harbor for its commissioning.
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General view of the village of Monterde, province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
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Säter, Sweden
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Bridge to Gracht Castle, Erftstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia / Germany
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Verrucole Castle interior
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Bas-relief in monument to Jose de San Martin, inspired in his death, we can look to his daughter Merceditas with her wife Mariano Balcarce and a grenadier standing guard over the body of San Martin
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Silene vulgaris in the John Denver Sanctuary in Aspen, Colorado
  • There's not much more room available at the bottom (the second flower that's just slightly cut off in this version sits on the bottom edge in the original). I played with some cloning/stretching, but didn't come up with anything worth talking about. I think I'll leave it as is for the time being to get other opinions. I'd rather modify what's there than go with a tighter crop, though. Maybe darkening the background flowers and making them a bit greener to blend into the background more or something... — Rhododendrites talk23:10, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Markus Wallner (ÖVP), governor of Vorarlberg
This picture along with many others was taken by me with my own camera and lens on December 13th 2017 during the so called Landtagsprojekt Vorarlberg 2017, a project where six wikipedians organised taking photographs of the delegates of the Vorarlberger Landtag to be published under CC-by-SA 4.0 license and to put them into the delegates' articles. The people involved in taking these pictures were funded by Wikimedia Austria in the form of equipment (e.g. the studio flash lights) and a refund of part of their expenses for traveling to Vorarlberg. Wikimedia Germany sent us their studio flash lights as a backup, but it was not needed. These kinds of projects have been done in the past in many local parliaments in Germany and Austria as well and are ongoing work in progress to be repeated after new elections. The personality rights warning is something I personally stick to all my images of people, regardless where and under which circumstances they've been taken. --Granada (talk) 12:59, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the explanation which confirms the pure marketing objective of these images. I note that the politician's Wikipedia article has few citations and is basically Original Research which is not normally permitted. Charles (talk) 13:48, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
What makes you think this is pure marketing? Normal Wikipedians like you and me kindly asked for permission to take photographs of the delegates to the Vorarlberger Landtag which was granted. I took my own car, loaded it with two other wikipedians and the studio flash equipment of the austrian chapter of wikimedia, drove 650km from Vienna to Vorarlberg, had a hard time setting everything up, photographing 36 delegates and 7 members of the government and driving back to Vienna. I took two days off for this, I have a regular job to do to earn money and in my spare time in the evenings after I looked through the images and uploaded the best to commons. We do this to raise the quality of the images of persons, regardless if they are politicians, sports people or other kinds of celebreties. Wikimedia austria helps me with this work as they paid me the diesel I needed for traveling to Vorarlberg and it is great to have the austrian chapter own a complete studio flash light that can be borrowed for free by any wikipedian who wants to do a project like this. In january our athletes for the winter olympic games will get dressed up and we are in negotiations with the OESV if we could use our studio flash lights to take really good portraits of the sports people heading to South Korea. I can see no marketing objective in doing so. --Granada (talk) 14:31, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The parliamentary projects have a long tradition. --Ralf Roleček 14:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Political marketing has been going a long time! - I agree there may be nothing wrong at all. I just raised the query. Charles (talk) 15:59, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Wiki loves parliament is an ongoing project that is even supported by the Wikimedia Foundation itself, not just local chapters. Did you realize that I felt questioned my motives, questioned my integrity by telling me the purpose of taking photographs of delegates to a local parliament was purely promotional? --Granada (talk) 16:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • (Edit conflict) If there are problems with sources in a Wikipedia article, that should be dicussed on that article's WP talk page. It has nothing to do with the pictures being supplied for the article. I also find the talk about this being some kind of marketing very strange. Many countries have wiki technology pools where equipment for taking photos, recording sound or doing other wiki-things, can be borrowed. As for rounding up politicians and photographing them, I don't see how that should be different from other theme-named photo sessions like all the "Wiki Loves XXX". --cart-Talk 16:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I don't get that argument either. Both picture and project are perfectly fine - as is the pertinent article. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 15:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Likewise I am so confused by what objections are being raised, or why it's being call "marketing". Since when is taking high quality photographs of people deemed notable and encylopedic a problem? Isn't that why many people contribute to Commons in the first place? -- KTC (talk) 13:13, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Abstain PumpkinSky talk 14:55, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - Good portrait, and I don't understand the controversy. We're supposed to question grant money that helps people photograph public figures? These are national politicians, and therefore inherently newsworthy. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:52, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose For now. Good portrait, but there's some CA between shirt and jacket and I don't see any reason why this picture is downsampled so much. The D850 offers 45 Megapixels and this picture just has roundabout 15. Both issues are fixable I think and I'll be happy to change my vote later. I don't understand the discussion Charles started above, too. --Code (talk) 19:04, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I must admit I did not see the CAs, I told LR to remove them and uploaded the new version. The image itself is not downsampled at all, I was just standing quite far away and did a quite large photo of all the delegates to have enough space for later choosing an adequate frame. --Granada (talk) 19:32, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Excellent quality, but nothing special about this guy I'm afraid --A.Savin 00:24, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support In the first place I did not want to support my own picture, but the longer I look at this portrait and other portraits made within projects around wiki loves parliaments, the more I like it to be featured. This kind of portrait in all its simplicity stands for its own and this is the style of portrait I'd like to see in articles about politicians. The neutral lighting, the neutral colors, the relatively neutral facial expression and the chosen format (his right eyeball is exactly in junction of the first third lines from the top left) make this a blueprint for depicting the seriousness a politician at least wants to express in a portrait. --Granada (talk) 07:53, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose A completely ordinary photo of an as yet unremarkable politician. A good addition to Commons, but nothing exciting.--Peulle (talk) 09:14, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If the level of importance of the person portrait is relevant for FP, then I'd like Ralf to withdraw this nomination. --Granada (talk) 09:32, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
It is, to some extent. A photo that has a high historical value, e.g. a photo of Gandhi during his salt march, would contribute greatly to the 'wow factor' in my opinion. If an ordinary photo of an (as yet) unremarkable person like this is designated "one of the best images on Commons", I feel it would devaluate the FP brand as there are thousands of images like this one. It just isn't a photo that stands out, in my opinion.--Peulle (talk) 09:49, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have to say, that's a very good argument that gives me pause. If there are truly thousands or even hundreds of equally good portraits of politicians, why should we feature this one? I'll think about whether to change to neutral. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The truth is the contrary: there are hundreds of really bad portraits of politicians out there and that's why I'd like this image to be featured. Even those who opposed this nomination admitted the quality of the portrait. Featuring this could be used as a blueprint for future wiki loves parliaments projects. --Granada (talk) 10:32, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
While I agree that this portrait is better than many others, I personally put more weight on the wow factor. When you're saying that this image is of higher quality than other photographs we have here, that suggests to me to be yet another argument in favour of making it a QI, but it has less to do with the FP category. Had it been a photo of a special setting, that would have carried more weight with me.--Peulle (talk) 11:12, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The problem with some of these wiki-loves sessions is that they stick a politician (or food) in front of a grey background, with perfectly ok but not interesting lighting arrangement for a portrait, and then shoot dozens of similar pictures like a factory. Sure the technical quality is fine but I don't see exceptional lighting, exceptional surroundings, exceptional personality shining though, or an exceptional person. Even one of these might make it an FP. These are fine for Wikipedia thumbnails but it has about as much charm as a school photo. It becomes kind of "If we accept this, then what about these four hundred photos too". Plus all the identical official photos of politicians donated by government bodies. I recall when Diliff attended in a previous year he chose just one photo: File:Nils Torvalds MEP, Strasbourg - Diliff.jpg where the subject has some character and there is the novelty that he's Linus Torvald's father. Even then he admitted the difficulties making something "finest". I appreciate the effort taken to attend the event and take high-quality photos for Wikipedia articles, but it seems to me more an exercise in ensuring Wikipedia has an acceptable portrait than about producing a great portrait, photographically speaking, or photographing someone interesting. -- Colin (talk) 14:59, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Mr. Wallner ist the governor of the federal state of Vorarlberg and therefore one of the most important politicians of Austria. --Ailura (talk) 09:05, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination

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Half a plowed snowy field with a tractor, work suspended for lunch
  • They aren't planting anything here at the moment. I looks like the field has been resting this past year and only been used for grass/silage or grazing. Most farmers here rotate their crops, so they are preparing this field to be planted with something in spring. My guess is it will be oats. The normal rotation here is oats, grass/silage, sheep grazing. --cart-Talk 21:57, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • This time of the year, the sun is very weak and low on the horizon (and this was the sunniest day this month!), giving long shadows and illuminating only high hills. As you can see, this is taken at 12:02:49, so the sun is at its highest and brightest. Even if I had waited to see if the light would get better (it didn't, it started to snow shortly after) the farmer would have been back from lunch and the rest of the field would have been plowed and that would have been missing the point of the photo. It is a pic of a moment and you have to make the best of what you got. You don't have the same luxury of waiting for months for perfect conditions as when you are shooting a building.
I am painfully aware of that the days are numbered for me and my small-sensor cameras since their sharpness can't compete with the rest of the cameras here. This is taken with a tripod and about as good as that camera can make landscape photos if I don't do stitched pics. With all the full-frame and big sensor cameras that are becoming more frequent here, I guess that in a year my photos won't be tolerated here due to technical shortcomings. I'll just have fun while I can. Thanks for your voting and your comments, they are always appreciated. :) --cart-Talk 09:52, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see an issue with the camera here. Just apply some sharpening during post-processing. Be careful not to increase noise too much (the smart sharpening of recent photoshop versions does a really good job at that). I know it sounds stupid, but this is something that everybody notices when looking at the photo 1:1. Don't believe me that this helps? Compare https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/18/20131205180109%21RhB_Ge_4-4_II_Wiesener_Viadukt.jpg to https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/RhB_Ge_4-4_II_Wiesener_Viadukt.jpg . It's the same RAW file! (ok there were some other changes, but the difference in sharpness is really obvious) --Kabelleger (talk) 14:18, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done Thanks for your kind advice Kabelleger. I did some additional sharpening from raw and I don't think I introduced too much extra noise. It's a bit more post-processing than I usually do but if works I'm game. Still, I can never get the level of detail you have in your example photo, since your sensor is about three times as big as mine. I don't think this will make any difference for Peulle and Granada though, since they also want me to move the sun, which is a bit more difficult. ;) Btw, this is a crop from a wider shot. I went through many crops and angles before I found one that was satisfactory with the focus on the half/half field and not on the sky or the surrounding landscape. --cart-Talk 22:06, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Abandoned water tower
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Car tire tracks in snow under sodium light.
  • Yep, it is intentional since it is exactly what it looked like. :) That's where the lamp (old mobile photo) is, shining down on the snow. You can see the pool of light in this photo as well. I took some more, but I haven't had time to upload them yet. This one had the best pattern. --cart-Talk 23:26, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Do not be sorry, I like honest reviews, they are welcome too. I was going to get my car when I saw the pattern made in the newly fallen snow and the pool of light. Then I saw that some of the tracks curved towards the light. That's when I went back to get my camera and tripod. ;) --cart-Talk 09:59, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dear Mile, if that is how you feel about this photo, I don't think you should strike your oppose vote, I don't mind. You usually oppose my photos, so I'm used to it. Please vote the way you like. --cart-Talk 18:05, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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azadi tower
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Organ of Sonntagberg Basilica, Lower Austria
 Support OK, the changes are enough. Daniel Case (talk) 20:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Forest at sunset in Babina Dupka (1,680 m) on the mountain Dautica, Macedonia
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Myocastor Coypu in freedom in France
 Comment I object that at ISO 1000 sharpening the image that much incorporates a lot of very ugly luma noise which becomes especially visible in the background. Overall that impression of tack sharpness results from using too much sharpening, that might be acceptable for QI, but not for FP. --Granada (talk) 08:31, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The ISO setting has generated a lot of noise which remains on the animal and rocks and I also wonder if it is possible to fix the blown nose/snout? See notes on image. Charles (talk) 09:12, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Fixed -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:56, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so. Charles (talk) 09:09, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Look at your own picture here, maybe -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:19, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - Why can't both photos be FPs? I can understand if you withdrew because you think you'll never get 7 supporting votes, but I doubt the fact that the other photo is an FP is a good reason to withdraw. That said, it is your decision whether to withdraw or not. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks Ikan Kekek, I think it's important to have at least one FP for Wikipedia, and fortunately there is already one. Thus, my picture is less useful considering this. But yes, you're right too, I also withdraw because of the lack of supports (not yours, thanks again !), and think this image is probably not great enough for some non technical reasons -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Emerald water of meromictic McGinnis Lake, Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.
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Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis leucomelanurus) female
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Vasabron (Vasa bridge) across the Norrström in Stockholm, with Stockholms Stadshuset (city hall) in the background
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Orangery of Seehof Castle in Memmelsdorf near Bamberg in northern Bavaria
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Flower field at sunset near the village of Mažučište, Macedonia
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Falcon 9 at Vandenberg Air Force Base
✓ Done thank you Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:43, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Likely, though I don't know why. Almost all their images have the same size. The resolution is still acceptable IMO but one may have a different opinion. Christian Ferrer (talk) 12:38, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Power lines during Blue Hour

Alternative

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Power lines during Blue Hour BW

Here is a black and white alternative as suggested by Basotxerri. PumpkinSky talk 23:49, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Six children in the Mekong with buffalos and boat
Absolutely no post-processing on the children. Original RAW file available on request. -- Basile Morin (talk) 16:04, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Mała Babia Góra, Beskid Żywiecki mountains, Poland
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Brown rock chat (Oenanthe fusca).jpg
  •  Support Actually i should say try to remove eye from the middle. I made similar in morning, just not so wide. But still I think its better than previous shot. My option was like this. --Mile (talk) 16:17, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Hemeroplanes triptolemus - Dorsal side, Collection of the Mathematician Laurent Schwartz
  • Because I saw this photo in VIC and found it particularly pretty. But I don't really understand your question. Those other butterflies aren't very similar to this one. Should we stop giving the FP designation to shells because other shells have been FPs? How about views of mountains, is there a limit on those? Views with reflections in water? Views of buildings? Views of birds? In short, I don't accept the premise of your question. There are indeed other photos of mounted lepidoptera that merit FP status, but certainly, not all of them do, for the same reasons as any other category: Some are not as good technically, some are boring, etc. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:01, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with Ikan. All four are separate species and by definition every species is inherently wiki-notable. There is no rule saying we can only have one FP per category. The only rule that comes close is "too similar" and since each of these is a different species I don't see a problem with each being an FP. PumpkinSky talk 04:15, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes you voted to support that politician portrait and then, the candidature failed. Please also remember you revised your vote writing "I'll think about whether to change to neutral", invoking exactly the same reason than the one you are opposing to now, so please Ikan Kekek develop your idea and assume good faith. There are hundreds of equally good photos in this category, and 3 already are FPs. So why should we take this extra one ? Is it famous ? Is it aesthetically special ? Is it sharp like this ? I really want to learn -- Basile Morin (talk) 06:20, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I recognize that you are making a serious point, and I will try my best to discuss it in good faith. In the thread on the other nomination, I did say I would think about a similar argument. I found this photo aesthetically special, yes, and that's why I nominated it at this time. Thanks for offering an example for comparison. This doesn't look as sharp as that pupa, but this photo is about twice as big as that one. I think this photo is certainly interesting enough to be an FP, but if you feel that what will make the difference between a mounted lepidoptera FP and one that's not an FP is more outstanding sharpness than this, that's arguably overdoing things, but it could nevertheless be a valid argument. Do you have a sense of how many photos in this category are as interesting and relatively sharp as this one? What criteria would you suggest using in determining which ones to nominate or support? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:37, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think PumpkinSky you are overthinking this. Actually we treat photos of people, landscapes, animals, shells, camera lenses, etc differently. Some subjects can be photographed identically and we somehow remain interested while other subjects aren't going to retain our attention. Some of these repeat photos really need to be dribbled slowly onto FPC even if they look great. The art here is created by God, or whatever you believe in, and this kind of sterile photo only demonstrates technical competence. Doing that with a photo of a person, and especially with the dullest barely notable politician, is not going to get anyone going wow. To be honest, I'm not that fond of this kind of insect photo and can't remember the last time I supported a shell photo. That's not my cup of tea. -- Colin (talk) 17:37, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
PumpkinSky The only person who ever mentioned rules is you, so the only person "overly focused on" them is you. Ikan and Basile have been discussing their opinions, and I noted my experience of FPC voting patterns, along with some opinions. Every time this issue is discussed, you seem to think there are rules. It really isn't possible to create some rule, or to try to fit analogies like "each politician is akin to a species" as though we had a rule for species. Voting patterns just are what they are, and what is permitted is simply the collective opinion at any time. -- Colin (talk) 19:51, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Colin you really need to look in a mirror. PumpkinSky talk 20:07, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination - My mistake, I still have 2 active nominations. Somehow, I miscounted. We can discuss these issues more somewhere else, like maybe on Commons Talk:Featured picture candidates. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:55, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Red Sea Hills
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Amboseli national park, Kenya
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Mekong Sun river cruise ship in Luang Prabang
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Panorama of Lake Ohrid from the peak Magaro (2.255 м) on the mountain Galičica, Macedonia
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Avalanche protection wall in Tschafein, hamlet of Galtür, Paznaun, Tyrol, Austria
  •  Comment Normally avalanche-protection in the Alps (at least in Tyrol which is what I know) is made by huge metal grids mounted on the upper parts of the mountains (like this one, or see the horizontal lines on the hillside here). However, the Paznaun valley is a quite high valley with steep side walls where people have been living with avalanches for many hundreds (or thousands) of years, so they are very aware of the danger. These images are taken in a hamlet of Galtür. Galtür is at 1500 m altitude and was buried in 1999 by an enormous avalanche (see en:1999 Galtür avalanche), many of the constructions were made after this disaster, although some of them are older (as obviously this one). However, Galtür is the only site where I've seen these giant stone walls. --Basotxerri (talk) 19:41, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Shelf cloud
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Deathshead St. Johannes

 Info ( Info): I added something like EXIF-Data. I´m only not sure if everyone can read data from old times. For Example Pan F@25ASA means to develop it to nominal EV. I had taken a lot of b&w with my favourite film T-Max400@160ASA means I do not push, I developed it to real Sensitivity of 160 ISO in Perceptol (1:3)20°; here it´s 1:1. Cam and Equipment was evertime included, bcs. that´s not a size we normally use it today. (analog chip-Size 56x56mm) The image was taken by me July 1996. I used these negatives a long time for calibrating the Dark-Lab-Equipment. (One 120 Film, serie of half f-EV) The Fineprints are younger but still in museum Quality. Sometimes I try a new scanner (to see how it work with shadows), the rest is Photoshop (Dust and spots) but no dodge&burn. Cemetery of Johannes (Nuremberg) is a cultural relic an monument, placed in St. Johannes/Nürnberg. In the historic mile Nuremberg. About a lot of rosebushes, another name is Rose-Cemetery. You can find normed Gravestones and tombs about more then 400 Years. The Epitaphs are armed with fine bronze castings from artists around the region and sandstones from Nuremberg Quarzit. A lot of peoble called it the most beautiful Cemetery in Europe. But I will add some information like this more in the new category "Category:Saint Johannes Tomb" about St. Johannes (I started for some weeks). Feel free to check it out. Additional you will find the new Version of this skull, the stolen one is lost.

  •  Provisional support I like it but I, too, would like to know more about it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:29, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - Thanks a lot for all that information. I think that File:St. Johannes Nürnberg Totenschädel 01.jpg, the photo with the new skull monument in it, shows much more clearly what we're looking at and would be a better FP candidate (I don't guarantee I'd vote for it, but I'd consider it). This one in my opinion is a useful VI candidate but doesn't really work for me for FP. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:39, 17 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info Maybee I don´t catch the idea behind, really. The black and white is a hybrid work, finished digital and toned. The alternativ pic is imo more a QI-Level. The possibility for restauration (the skull) is only one way to be wealthy. Unfortunately I don´t shoot the interims skull. The geo-tagg is for all peoble and photographers to do it by themselves, only the bw is the interpretation from my side -- Hans-Jürgen Neubert 13:49, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Sõmeri lighthouse
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Stadtzentrum Eberswalde

 I withdraw my nomination --Ralf Roleček 23:02, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Repurposed pirogue as kitchen garden
Thanks for your honest review, A.Savin. It's a simple image shot with a tripod, as I find amazing the way of reusing an old boat for a kitchen garden. This happens frequently in Laos, and it's an ecological concept. When they become too difficult to repair, then, personal pirogues are repurposed for a second life. The poetic aspect is that this second life here brings growing life, too :-) Basile Morin (talk) 13:35, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 I withdraw my nomination Thanks for the feedbacks -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:28, 26 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Originally I left the image with the feet visible intentionally as I wanted more of the dust visible, but the cropped version looks as good, my concerns were unfounded. --Granada (talk) 11:05, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Spit of the Vasilievsky Island in Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Christian cross inside the destroyed konaks of the Treskavec Monastery
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Domestic cat mean face
This creates a contrast between the background and the cat face, cat face looks dark and malefic, also light bubbles helps to highlight your disheveled hair. --The Photographer 00:17, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I mean bubbles of light in small parts of particular hairs; I'm not talking about a large enough area to form an overall contrast between the background and the cat's face. Those bubbles look like some kind of technical fault, but I don't know what they are exactly or what is causing them. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:30, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Like Llez told it`s bassicaly CA because lens distortion. --The Photographer 17:17, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Niklas Schrader (Die Linke)
  •  Comment - The respect of some Wikimedian other users is once again shockingly unruly, unobjective and altogether pathetic. I am ashamed to participate again in this project and to be recognized with some of you as an employee in a project. Sorry Sandro, that you have to stand those inhuman people. Marcus Cyron (talk) 14:46, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have any substantive rejoinder to the comments made in this thread, or do you just like using extreme language for the hell of it? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:27, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Marcus, could you stick to judging the photo, as we have. If you want to play divisive politics then Facebook and Twitter is where you need to go. -- Colin (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Again, as with the other photo, it's a fine piece of work, but I just don't see anything special about it. There's no "wow factor". As such it should have the QI and VI status, but I'm not seeing this becoming an FP.--Peulle (talk) 19:13, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Since nobody, including the nominator, has suggested any reason why this is among our finest, rather than just a good wikipedia-identity-photo. -- Colin (talk) 21:13, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Colin; I wish this discussion could be purely about technical and aesthetic images rather than perceived ulterior motives of the nominator. Daniel Case (talk) 23:27, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Abandoned pickup on a farm
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Ancient Roman amphoras in Pula amphitheatre, Croatia.
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Picture of Fernvale, Singapore. The buildings are the subject and parts of Anchorvale Vista are at the foreground.

 I withdraw my nomination

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Abandoned car along a highway in Guanacaste in Costa Rica
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Water Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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Ludwigsbrücke in Bad Kissingen
I think on a QI you may have half of this image, while here there's a nice mirror effect -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That's a good way to put it. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:26, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
There are heaps or rivers and lake with bridges passing over and this is a sight one would come across a dozen of times on a moderate long hiking nearby where he lives (lets says for most) so I stand by "common" here. Just my two cents. - Benh (talk) 18:40, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Your point of view is perfectly valid, of course. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:55, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Saint Joseph's Oratory
Ikan Kekek, I did not search for FP, I just took a look into the oratory's category and found an image that had 59 global uses - must be good and by clicking it I found out it was an FP: [11] --Granada (talk) 07:08, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. Though small by current FPC standards, that 10-year-old photo is certainly very clear and good, but I do find the view very different, as it's much closer-in and also a night rather than near-sunset picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:53, 19 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Wooden box at abandoned farmhouse
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Monastery of La Monjía, Fuentetoba, municipality of Golmayo, Province of Soria, Spain.
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Bahadur Singh is a former dacoit, and now an advocate of non-violence, and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • The tip of the nose, part of the beard and the chin are relatively unsharp, IMO too unsharp for a portrait shot. However, I usually don't shoot people and portraits so I'd like to hear the other's opinions, too. --Basotxerri (talk) 17:22, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I dare to say that it seems that the focal plane is a bit too far, the ears are really sharp. But I promise you that if someone else convinces me that I'm wrong, I'll withdraw my oppose vote. These are mere technical issues, though, the other question is if it's worth to be an FP. First let's see what others think. --Basotxerri (talk) 18:44, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's a nice portrait in small size that I would certainly have supported if the quality had been good at 1:1. Unfortunately the focus is on the scarf. Look how fine are all the small details of the scarf compared to the face. Here the eyes are not sharp and the nose is very blurry. It's probably a problem of precision of your collimator(s) in this particular situation. I take a lot of portraits in real life with natural light (that is more difficult than in studio) and sometimes meet such kind of bad focus (especially with my old camera). But when the collimator catches the right surface, then the image gets sharp. Look at the difference between your portrait and this one for example, at f/8 too. Compare the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the hair, and see the shades of focus on the shirt. -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:03, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Uff, you're comparing 50 mm f/8 on FF on your image with the FF eq. of 105 mm f/12 on this image (APS-C crop factor 1.5). Sorry, I don't want to say anything with this, only an observation. --Basotxerri (talk) 09:11, 24 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Abandoned pickup at Kelvin A. Lewis farm in Creeds
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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View upwards through an arch of the Göltzschtal bridge
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Shell of a Tall Top Snail, Tectus triserialis
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Escalator, Umeda Sky Building, Osaka
  • Thanks, Basile Morin. I know what you mean - but: a) what is perpendicular to what in this case? And b: I was "somewhat" looking up (and therefrore also pointing my camera "somewhat" up) - as everybody does when stepping on an escalator - so my perspective is a rather natural one here. I could "correct" it of course (I've already given it a try), but the visual impact would definitely suffer. I've had a similar discussion here. ;-) --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 12:06, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks Martin Falbisoner for your answer, but this seems correct 1 or 2. I read the previous discussion and believe there really is a problem of perspective in both of these images. I know they're not to be categorized in the architectural field, but still, they are parts of architectural buildings, and these lines here don't look natural, sorry -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:05, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • I guess we agree to disagree then - which is totally fine with me. Another reason why I don't want to "correct" the perspective here is that I'd like to keep the handrails as they are. They add a compositional element that your "corrected" examples are lacking --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 14:56, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Dear Martin Falbisoner, I stroke my oppose vote because your explanation is legitimate. But we don't agree on the issue, and then I maintain my comment. It's true I prefer the corrected perspectives like shown in my links above. However, I also understand this is a special case quite complex, with only a portion of horizontal carpet and a long inclined tunnel. As a consequence, I find your point of view admissible, and my opposition rude. It's okay to let it go, but I do not support :-) Thanks for your tolerance, anyway Basile Morin (talk) 13:18, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Ypsilon bridge in pink
@Ikan Kekek: I think the reason it looks the way it does has something to do with the reflection from strong light sources like the library building right next to the bridge. Not entirely sure how it happened, but if you look at the other images in the series, you'll notice the same effect. :) --Peulle (talk) 18:21, 20 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, and reflections of other lights. I'll give this a little more time before voting, but so far, my reply to Benh is that this picture is just quite pretty and has a pretty good composition. I'd like a little more room on the right side, though: part of the bridge is cut off, and while the crop on the left side blends almost seamlessly into the building, the line through the triangular and circular figures on the right is a bit off-putting. I'll see if this still bugs me much some time later, but if I don't end up voting for a feature, that'll probably be why. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:35, 21 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Abandoned farmhouse
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Pteroglossus torquatus in Costa Rica


Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --A.Savin 15:42, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Feraklos Castle, Haraki, Rhodes
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Nepal, Langtang. Lake Gosaikinda.
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Panoramiv view over the Rhön Mountains
✓ Done It´s about 150°. --Milseburg (talk) 13:54, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I have read here another time that hard daylight is rejected and the light of the low sun is preferred. Based on the original greek meaning of the word Panorama as "all"+ "sight", I would like to show the whole outlook from this prominent viewpoint. Otherwise, I would have chosen as title "Kreuzberg Panorama (right part) or something else restrictive. The other images are very good, but contain no further instructive geographical information and some peaks are covered in clouds, which is not the intention of my panorama. So the comparison doesn´t work very well. --Milseburg (talk) 13:54, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Light is not just a property of the time of day and angle of the sun to the horizon but also the direction you and your subject are facing wrt the light. There may be areas that are lit well and areas that are in deep shadow and unfortunately this photo has a huge amount of area in deep shadow. Also the mist has combined with the sunlight on the left to make a glare that reduces contrast while not generating any photogenic cloud inversion. While the viewpoint is fairly high, it isn't high enough to get above the near trees, so they totally dominate the view. By all means take a "all around" view if you like but only occasionally will this generate a scene that truly is exceptional. I would much rather see a view chosen and selected for being interesting rather than simply because it was inevitably part of the scene as one swings the camera around. Regardless of etymology, a panorama is any scene with a wide (or tall) aspect. -- Colin (talk) 18:45, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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August. Ukraine. Dnipro River


Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --PumpkinSky talk 15:46, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Sorry!--Ввласенко (talk) 15:57, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Transfăgărășan road, Romania
  •  Comment - You're right. I hadn't looked at other photos of the road, but the last one is the best view of the road, though not a potential FP, as you said. I'm not sure the fact that there are more wowy stretches of road has to enter into my judgment of this composition, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:35, 23 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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