Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Azerbajian landscape.jpg

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Info A powerful and yet breathtaking picture of the Caucasus landscape in the vicinity of Khinalug, Azerbaijan, taken on August 7, 2009. Created by Matthew Hadley (nickname diff_sky) - uploaded by Azeri - nominated by Azeri -- Azeri (talk) 20:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Azeri (talk) 20:42, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I agree it is a breathtaking landscape, and I would love to see photos featured from Azerbaijan, as we do not have too many photos from there. But, unfortunately, the photo is severely overexposed, and postprocessing appears to have been applied, which not been very successful. --Slaunger (talk) 20:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I requested the creator to upload the unprocessed to Flickr aswell, see here. I would appreciate your feedback on the original and what improvement I can make to get it featured. Azeri (talk) 21:43, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for doing an effort to find better "raw" material. The exposure on the other versions seems better than the nominated version, but the image still appear "tinkered" in some way. It may be due to the camera though, I do not know? I do not exactly know what can be done to improve it, sorry. --Slaunger (talk) 21:57, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply. Should I at least replace the current photo with the original one? This way the voting may continue or is that against the rules? Azeri (talk) 22:21, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is not against the rules to replace the nominated photo by uploading a new version. However, in this case, since it has gotten a bad strat due to the overexposure I would recommend withdrawing the nomination, try to get the help from others (I see one wanting to help below) to improve a new photo using a new file name, and once it is at its best make a new nomination - possibly referring to the history of this one. --Slaunger (talk) 15:37, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I find the landscape very attractive! If possible atleast I would be happy to see what could I do to the ”raw” picture - if is there possibly coming such here. =) --Ximonic (talk) 13:58, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Azeri (talk) 14:12, 15 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have withdrawn this picture and nominated a different version. Azeri (talk) 13:23, 16 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: very noisy, contrast too high, clouds blown and shadows too dark. --The High Fin Sperm Whale 22:07, 13 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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