Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Fourth of July Fireworks at Washington DC - 1.jpg
File:Fourth of July Fireworks at Washington DC - 1.jpg, not featured edit
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Info created, uploaded and nominated by Jovianeye -- Jovian Eye talk 12:26, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Support -- Jovian Eye talk 12:26, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Oppose Too dark, strange crop, no "wow". --Yikrazuul (talk) 16:34, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Comment I personally do not think it is too dark. It is quite difficult to manage the exposure since you cannot guess the colour and intensity of each firework. Any higher exposure would only get the fireworks over-exposed. Of the 60 pictures I took at least one third had the fireworks over-exposed. As far as I could search, I found only two FPs on fireworks File:2007 Nagaoka Festival 004 Edit.jpg and File:Ignis Brunensis Macedos Pirotecnia 2007.jpg. Regarding the crop, I have nominated another image which has still better framing. --Jovian Eye talk 23:15, 5 July 2011 (UTC)- Support theMONO 01:43, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
- Support I wasn't stunned by this in thumbnail, but the full version looks very nice. Nice clean lines. A notable place, and good composition on the fireworks. The dynamic range in a night time firework display is obviously going to be hard to deal with, but I think this exposure is appropriate. I think this is the better of the two you have put up on offer. --99of9 (talk) 04:52, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- Info Uploaded new version with better crop on top. --Jovian Eye talk 12:11, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose Too dark, you can not appreciate the landscape. Not everybody has been to Washington, so not everybody knows what that landscape should look like, are those houses, trees, buildings?. This could have been easily solved increasing the exposition time or increasing the ISO. Also, the fireworks portrayed are not aesthetically remarkable, there are much impressive fireworks pictures around. Also, why do you propose to feature two very similar pictures token at the same spot and at the same time? Repeatability of pictures makes them lose their value, did you know? Why a picture should be featured if it is not unique? A featured picture has to be unique. (Gussisaurio (talk) 19:40, 13 July 2011 (UTC))
- Comment It is quite easy to make such criticism. The subject here is not the landscape by itself, but along with the fireworks. The monuments are marked as annotations in the image. Regarding the exposure, this sort of subject is quite challenging. I chose ISO-200 to keep the noise low. The aperture was kept constant in all shots and f/9 was chosen to optimize sharpness. The shutter was chosen after a few trial and error attempts to 1/2 second. Despite these settings, a lot of the images were over-exposed. This is because of the luck factor I guess. I was unable to move from this spot which I reserved by arriving at the location 3 hours in advance! I fortunately have the RAW file and am planning to renominate the image after adjusting the exposure. --Jovian Eye talk 12:20, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
