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Support Good quality, composition and nice perspective. The reflections in the water are brought out well. I would prefer a slightly wider crop at the bottom (foreground) to make the photo more balanced. --Tuxyso (talk) 20:04, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment There is some mist in the air, which makes the picture appear a bit dull. While this is perfectly normal for aerial photographs, it is not too hard to remove that. --El Grafo (talk) 13:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is a higher resolution file in the Dryden Image Gallery that has very low contrast, I used that to create a WB/contrast-corrected version:
Comment Imo, your version is much better mist-wise, but the blue stripes on the fuselages seem to be a bit dark now. Also, it seems to be a bit too brown/yellow-ish (have a look at the lower side of the fuselages: I guess they should be in a neutral grey? They have a slight color cast in the original too, but it has become stronger through the modifications). But maybe that's just my eyes/monitor tricking me. In terms of the background, I think I prefer the first option. I can't decide which one is the best one overall, so I'll simply Abstain . --El Grafo (talk) 09:26, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Perspective (right part of the building is too dominant due to the side view perspective), composition (especially the foreground) and quality (sharpness, distortion) are IMHO not sufficient for FP. --Tuxyso (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Although a better crop (especially the bottom section) would make the picture even better. The composition is great! --Aktron (talk) 10:54, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Beautiful. The weight of the building serves the right side fine, and that, along with the unfortunate parking area, I think makes the right crop ok (normally I'd agree with a wider crop), and I would never agree with losing the left edge just to center the building out. Part of the fun of this image, for me, is that open space on the left, and I absolutely want to go walking on that trail. The whole thing makes me think of Kurosawa's Ran. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies03:26, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Detail panorama of Monument "Tiegelgussdenkmal" showing steps of crucible steel production. The five steps of production are marked with the note tool and linked to single shots. The panorama is stitched from 7 single images.
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: the image is too small (please check the FPC guidelines) -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 16:57, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose The crop is a bit uncomfortable to me. It's somewhat tight, and portraits should generally be more square than 2:3 (something like 4:5 is perfect). --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 06:01, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose -- I love photos of kids and this is a very beautiful girl indeed. But there is nothing really special about this picture and the image quality is on the poor side. Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Alvesgaspar, I've looked at this image closely several times after reading your comment and I don't think I understand about the image quality. How is it on the poor side? If I may make a comparison between a girl and a tiger, File:Tiger-2.jpg was in this year's POTY and it's extremely over-sharpened. Looking at the image at full size, there are literal blocks of pixelized color that represent, I suppose, hair, water droplets, and reflections. That to me is poor image quality. (I'm only asking out of curiosity.) – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment No problem, thought I'd throw it out here. Is there a way to quickly delist so not to waste people's time? Also, I listed it because I couldn't find a blonde girl FP; I thought there would be an easy means to do so, like through categories, but apparently not. So I wasn't sure if I was competing against a similar or better FP image of a blonde girl. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies11:18, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, nevermind, I don't know why I'm so scared to see an image be opposed for FP. So I won't withdraw my nomination. That's the whole point of this process. Gotta learn to take the nos with the yeses! And thanks for the link, that's a fantastic picture. I'm still wondering if there's an organized way to find FP pictures sorted by categories or something, aside from sifting through 4,000+ pics. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies23:08, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, it's right there! I feel stupid. I was looking at the categories in specific images and not finding anything. I was actually thinking more specific categories, to be honest, but that works perfectly. I can sift through those in the future to make sure I'm not nominating something that might already be there. Thank you. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies07:16, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral nice image of a little girl, but this is not a typical pose of a child in this age, it more a a typical adult model pose, IMHO, so the image give me a strange impression --Slick (talk) 20:43, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
OK; but it need to be specified in the "info" above and in file description or category. Otherwise she is just a beautiful girl. It is a pity that the short description on nomination page is not displayed unless we put our mouse over the picture. JKadavoorJee05:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
JKadavoor, can you clarify for me? You want me to add to the description page to explain that she's a caucasian girl? As for the short description you have to mouse over for, the instructions say to limit this to three words, so I don't really consider it very important. But for the image description, I can update that if you think it needs to be more specific. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:25, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, that would be really weird: "Lucy Merriam, a White American child model and actress, known for her role as Emma Lavery on All My Children." – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies07:51, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, okay good, sorry if I took you too literally. I agree, I think the blonde hair, blue eyes categories pretty much do the job. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies09:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info created by JJ Harrison - uploaded by JJ Harrison - nominated by JJ Harrison. I'm aware that the image quality isn't totally perfect - I had some water on the front of my lens. I think it's pretty good considering it's a flight shot taken in waves 5 meters high whilst getting sprayed from head to toe with buckets of cold, salty, water! Camera was (somewhat) protected with a plastic bag thing. -- JJ Harrison (talk) 02:54, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question Any reason for such a minimum resolution. Although it is good to encourage free gifts to Commons, it is not worth to encourage bare minimum pixel contributions. JKadavoorJee06:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support It's great. And I understand the downsampling, it's a relatively high-ISO-shot and this resolution allows for effective sharpening, while higher resolutions might not. --Julian H. (talk/files) 20:11, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
From 16 Mpx to 2 Mpx is 12.5%. That's called a teaser, not an FP candidate. It is a good image to illustrate web pages and will be a fine VI candidate, but calling this the best commons has to offer? B.p.20:21, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- Agree with Biopics. Not a requirement but a legitimate reason to oppose considering the goal of FP. Part of the body is blown white and seems pixelated. Alvesgaspar (talk) 23:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Better "wow" factor than the average FP, but for images at minimum resolution I only prefer to support with super "wow," which this image has not reached IMO. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 01:01, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per my above argument. If arguments like it's a relatively high-ISO-shot and this resolution allows for effective sharpening, while higher resolutions might not is valid, we've provisions like uploading the original file over and then reverting back to the current version so that anyone can use the original if preferred. JKadavoorJee05:40, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support While I don't dispute the image may be somewhat downsampled and a bit oversharpened (there are jaggies all round the bird) the comments here on size aren't fair IMO and folk may want to reconsider their protests. The image is not downsampled 12.5%. The vertical resolution is a conseqence of the wide aspect ratio and quite effective IMO. The horizontal resolution is 41% of the original output from the camera. The bird takes up 75% of the width at about 1550 px. Now look at Commons:Featured pictures/Animals/Birds for other bird-in-flight photographs. Generally, for birds that aren't close up, the pixel size of the other FP flying birds are no higher. This photo was taken with a 500mm lens on a boat on high waves. Could it just be that the bird didn't exactly fill the viewfinder? Can JJ 75% fill the viewfinder with bird-in-flight while arranging the appropriate negative-space on the right-hand-side holding a 500mm lens on a rocking boat? If he can, I expect shortly after he walked on water as his second miracle. So perhaps this image is 50% cropped horizontally and 80%-size downsampled (which is not at all an unreasonable downsample given the ISO and conditions). I think it is a good photograph but I am concerned that we already have two featured pictures of this bird in flight over the sea, also taken by JJ. Since FP is meant to be our "finest", then perhaps three is pushing things. It is a better composition than this and stronger colours than this. Also, this photo, which not featured and possibly oversaturated, has lots of sharp detail the others lack. So there are plently great pictures to compare with. It would be nice if the sharpening was turned down a wee bit too. -- Colin (talk) 13:26, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I sill believe my argument is valid (Why not upload the original file below the current version?). I don't want to fooled by supporting a near thumbnail size contribution; thus unconsciously boosting the commercial value of the original file for sale (See Please send me an email if you wish to negotiate for higher resolution copies, prints or less restrictive licensing.). Sorry if I'm rowing against the wind, making new friends. (Yes; now we're friends at Facebook. I appreciate JJ's spirit to accept criticism which is not very COMMON here.) JKadavoorJee06:09, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Jee, I can't think of any image purchaser that would be enticed into a higher valuation because it is featured on Commons. In fact the contrary is true for Getty Images, where CC licensing removes any possibility of even the higher resolution image from being represented as Rights Managed. Saffron Blaze (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Birds pictures are bound to croping and denoising, in order to get the shot correctly the photographer often needs to have fast shutter speed with lens not wide open (i.e. f/4 to f/8 generally) which implies high ISO. For the croping it's just a question of money, affording long telelens is not always possible 600mm 800mm are very expensives. Finally this picture is over 2Mpx and is pretty impressive, it's an FP for me. --PierreSelim (talk) 08:26, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I'm really imressed: That's probably the greatest photograph of a non-flying aircraft I've seen for a while - great quality, composition, light and of course subject. The person/pilot sleeping under the wing is just the cherry on top, adding some real Fly-In-feeling. --El Grafo (talk) 10:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Incredible. My only issue would be the front wheel chocks, which look almost oversaturated with a strange one or two pixel black outline. I'm not sure what that is, it doesn't look like a result of sharpening. But they just seem kind of unnatural, the only things in the picture that bother me. It's such a small detail, though, and the picture is quite lovely. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies03:16, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Strange and confusing looking background, just like you painted over half with a blue/white color. There is a bit ca that is easily corrected and a dust spot above his left hand. --Uberprutser (talk) 19:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- I like it very much despite the unfocused foreground (at the bottom) and the strange looking background. I like the composition and the human expression. Image quality is good. Alvesgaspar (talk) 10:21, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Actually, I don't find the background strange at all: That's most probably some kind of fortification made of sandbags and the like and imho provides additional value. Could someone who knows what kind of gun that is please add that to the description and/or place the file in the appropriate category? --El Grafo (talk) 15:12, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great picture, the background says "This was not taken in the studio" - which is somehow quite important when speaking about war photos. --Aktron (talk) 10:53, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Info I add a other version, crop and adjust color balance a bit. (I am not sure how to insert a second version here, if it not done well please correct it.) --Slick (talk) 20:35, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose And the flash creates another problem: the high contrast makes her eyeshadow look like a bruise. The cut of her eyebrow (and whatever that blemish is above it visible at full-res) don't make this any easier. Daniel Case (talk) 04:56, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info created by Kfbrett - uploaded by Kfbrett - nominated by Kfbrett -- Kfbrett (talk) 05:34, 1 March 2013 (UTC) First upload by non-photographer, straight from camera, uncropped. But had to try due to awesome subject matter. Any advice appreciated. "With salt flats visible near its base, Tucki Mountain hosts the setting moon and a lenticular cloud surfing above, at sunrise in Death Valley National Park."[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: too small, only 685 x 1024 px. --Llez (talk) 16:29, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Despite the fact there is no wow effect I have to say that there is hardly a way how to make such a picture even better. The colors are good, exposure is good, and the timing also. --Aktron (talk) 10:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Motive, composition, mood and light are too ordinary for me. Quality is at a high level, for sure, but not that outstanding (IMHO level of detail on the fassade could be better) to change my vote to support. --Tuxyso (talk) 12:08, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Not really; and this not the first time I oppose Poco's a fly on a flower shot. For me, the subject should be in focus. So the flower and bee, if the subject is the flower AND the insect. Here the flower is fully OOF. But yes; people have other opinions. JKadavoorJee07:27, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Muhammad for the lecture. Your assumption is right. My intention with this FPC was to propose a bee AND a flower as FPC. I wouldn't have propose this picture with the intention that only the bee is the subject. I thought that the title and the description would serve as hint about what is the subject of this shot.The case that Jkadavoor mentions was not similar. In that QIC the flower was clearly not in focus (and not eben complete) and therefore I accepted his argument , but this is not the case here, because the flower is in focus. Poco a poco (talk) 12:19, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose -- Composition is not he best (with the tourist included in the photo) and there is some disturbing geometric distortion which (maybe) could be avoided by taking the camrea further from the subject. Image quality is on the poor side. Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:47, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I find the composition quite excellent. The inclusion of the "tourist" is not distracting and makes for a great scale reference. However, it does seem a bit soft or unsharp. Saffron Blaze (talk) 17:12, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment -- Just a listening women. I like the image, don't know why. Maybe her (little bit sad?) eyes, ... or the composition in complete. I do not see war in this image. --Slick (talk) 19:56, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Irrespective of whether who she is, I like everything (despite the military background) of the portrayal: very interesting expression, nice composition (repeated elements in the background, direction of the view, position of main subject, DoF) and the very high quality regarding sharpness and bokeh (I guess it is the wonderful AF-S 85mm/1.4). --Tuxyso (talk) 20:36, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose -- As a portrait of a person, there is nothing extraordinary in the photo: the framing is not the best, the camera seems too close to the subject and the background is distracting. If there is a non-trivial 'story' in this depiction of a military listening to a speech, no clue is given. Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:30, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Good photo. I like the composition but would liked some more background info with the photo of who she is and why this photo is special. - Averater (talk) 08:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support -- This is a very demanding type of shot, especially for non-specialists. In my opinion that is a sufficient mitigating factor for the less-than-optinal image quality, considering the good composition and facial expressions. Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:34, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info created/uploaded/nominated by Michael Kramer (talk) 09:27, 25 February 2013 (UTC) by photografic by plane course, highlightig the curvature of the earth by using a fisheye, focused on the plane in the middle from another plane on 15 meters distance[reply]
Oppose Fisheyes can be used for very interesting effects, but unfortunately I think here it has just made for a cluttered composition. Sorry. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 09:42, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose While I am generally a big fan of air-to-air photographs of aircraft and highly appreciate the efforts at de.wp to create aerial photographs in a more or less systematic manner, I don't think this very one is exceptional enough to be "featured": blown sky, horizon disappearing in the haze/mist/fog, dull colors due to all the water in the air (partly retouchable), Nothern Germany looks not very appealing at this time of the year – so all in all it's mostly the weather's fault :-) Also: Is this really the curvature of the earth we are seeing there? Isnt't it merely the usual way straight lines look like when they are at the edge of a photograph taken with a fisheye? --El Grafo (talk) 12:31, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Very nice. Especially the arriving ship as compositional element. Probably you can use the {{Panorama}} template to indicate which software and how many photos were used. --Tuxyso (talk) 17:34, 20 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I increased the sharpening if that helps. Apart from that, there's nothing I can do about this as the quality of this is limited by the medium-quality jpeg photos this panorama is based on. It was taken 4 years ago and at that time, I did not own a DSLR, so there are no raw-files available. --Julian H. (talk/files) 11:11, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I guess it is a well enough taken picture but not enough wow or faults to make anyone vote. It happens. Especially for photographs of art/sculpture. For the image there's a tiny bit of red CA on the left border that might be removable by a click by your raw importer. Otherwise it is fine apart from ... the white border. Absolute no no. Some guideline somewhere. Folk can put whatever border they like when they use it so leave the pic alone. If you can find a use for it on Wikipedia then you might have more luck on a Wikipedia FP. -- Colin (talk) 15:21, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Question I don't know much about underwater photography, but is it normal for animals to be so soft/blurry at full resolution? It definitely looks great at lower resolutions. -- ~y (talk) 19:54, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral as per Jkadavoor. That one is certainly better, so no. Yann (talk) 06:53, 26 February 2013 (UTC)I changed my vote to Neutral after the comments below. Yann (talk) 06:58, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you liked that one, but that one is an image I myself retouched, using this base image, which was rejected in a previous vote for being "oversharpened". The image above, on the other hand, is supposed to be a natural, unaltered photograph. Given how big these animals are, they must be photographed at a distance to capture them in full profile, and thus the image will be inevitably blurred by the water.Kurzon (talk) 07:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support ...understanding the circumstances. Of course one would hope for a less blurred effect from the water from a distance but then again one should find such whales somewhere the water is very stable and does have almost no minerals or organic material I guess... Now how difficult would that be. --Ximonic (talk) 11:54, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
If you were to look at sperm whale photographs on Google Images (here's a link for you), you would see that this is actually a pretty good photo as far as underwater shots of whales go. Some photos are crisper, but they are often shots of small juveniles, or close-ups of the head. I'd say this is the best photo on the Web that captures the whale is full profile, and we should all be thankful that Mr Barathieu agreed to release it under CCA.Kurzon (talk) 13:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, Kurzon. You are right and that's what I'm talking about. I also did try to search for such pictures of whole whales under water from Google. Although many pictures can be found, it is difficult to find a large and sharp one showing the entire adult. Yours is very good in comparison. And Jkadavoor, awesome pictures yet quite small! ;) I wonder what would they look in a featurable resolution. --Ximonic (talk) 19:07, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes; not many people are generous enough to give away their rights, posts only down-scaled versions. Thanks, Barathieu Gabriel Barathieu (I don't know his nationality; calling surname may be considered as rude ) for this. JKadavoorJee05:36, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Quite accidental; nowadays I'm supporting people from there, too much. (And thanks for that "Mr." part. Everyday I'm learning new things.) JKadavoorJee10:50, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose -- I agree with the crop suggestion, but the improvement wouldn't be enough to reach the FP star imo. Lighting is sub-optimal, especially the in the upper parts, and there is nothing really exceptional in this depiction. Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:51, 22 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Concern: Good for FP; but is it advised to crop an existing VI? The preferences for VI and FP are much different; and the new crop reduced the EV (The entire arches and the middle pillars on sides are visible in old crop); I afraid. JKadavoorJee05:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral I admire your beautiful work on panorama photography. The notes with links to the appropriate monuments are also very helpful and have high EV. But the fact that 10-20% of the photo (the very right) part is remarkably unsharper than the others parts avoids me to vote with pro. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:38, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Very nice otherwise but I'm afraid I have to agree with Tuxyso. The camera seems to have shaken a little while taking the rightmost picture. Also I'm a little unsure about the cut out lower parts of the tombstones below. --Ximonic (talk) 11:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't find the camera shake or stitching problem to the right that disturbing. I also like the helpful notes in the photo. - Averater (talk) 09:03, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment -- Mmmm, personally I'm all for a large DoF. But shallow DoF seems to be the thing, artistically speaking, these days. But I needed the large aperture to get enough light. I know it's a bit of a tight on the left but without bringing a ladder I couldn't get a better shot. I tried perspective correction already but it's rather hard to do without a good reference point. It's also not that important imho.
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Comment: I would crop a little on the right to balance the composition. Also, if this was developed from RAW, a bit of highlight recovery would be nice for the slightly blown-out top of the crown. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 10:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info I am nominating this picture for delisting and replacement (current replacement options nominated above) because an image that is 2.89 times larger and much sharper is available. Origin of the image is still the same as the replacement: the US Air Force. The sources are slightly different, as the current FP is from dfrc.nasa.gov and the replacement source is from the nasa.gov Dryden Image Gallery. The uploader at the time the image was nominated for Commons FP was User:Aka. (Larger images were later uploaded over.) (Original nomination)
Keep The original is higher quality (less compression and indicated colour space). The source of the newer images is highly compressed so low quality, is missing the colour space tag and has been simply enlarged 1.7x (not 2.89 times) without any extra detail. The new images should be deleted as inferior copies. Colin (talk) 19:10, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw my withdrawal. I have a bad habit of taking one opinion and going with it. I'd like to still consider the alternate image above for possible replacement. I should give hear/read several opinions before making quick decisions. I look at my uploaded image and I just don't see how it's an enlargement. Noisy, yes, but still a viable option. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies00:08, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I stand by my assessment that the "larger" picture is actually the smaller picture blown up and saved with a very high degree of compression. The "noise" is JPG artefacts, not noise from the original photograph. I'll discuss more on the FP for the new image. Colin (talk) 11:45, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Withdraw my withdrawal of my withdrawal. Colin makes a good case and besides, again like he says, the original uncompressed scan of the original negative or print would be the best and sure source. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies22:19, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Poor light, no chance to be promoted, sorry --A.Savin16:47, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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I am unsure with A. Savin's (hope the name is spelled correctly) decision. The sky is burnt out thus it cannot be QI, but probably some reviewer think the colors or the golden light are interesting. I opt for undo FPX but would like to hear another opinion on it because I am too new on FPC. --Tuxyso (talk) 23:01, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately I think there are at least three problems here: First, the clouds are blown out (too bright to show anything other than white, no "texture"). Second, the building front is too dark, caused by the backlit situation (sun is in front of photographer instead of behind). Third, it the light really was yellowish, then a yellowish foreground is ok; but since this looks like the sun was quite high up in the sky, the light probably wasn't actually yellowish; instead, this looks like it was caused by white balance issues of the camera (due to the difficult light situation). --Kabelleger (talk) 09:25, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The fourth problem is that the subjet is cut off on the left (and the fifth the harsh shadows that result in many underexposed areas). Poco a poco (talk) 10:04, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, it was just a question / idea. I have the impression that FPX is sometimes used too fast without giving a nomination a chance. I would also not support this photo. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Pixelated texture on the Decoupled outer shell and the Ice IV shell
Horrible compression on Titan's southern hemisphere
Blurry probe image
Artistic problems
Cheap lens flares
Sun position makes no sense, in addition shading is inconsistent between Saturn, the probe, and Titan. (light is coming from in front, but Titan is shaded from the left, the probe from the right, and Saturn from the front-left)
Unrealistic stars
Poor render quality of the layers
3D positions are inaccurate—Saturn and Titan do not appear to be on the same plane.
Cropped pole sticking out of the probe is disturbing
Keep IMHO the delisting procedure started here from some "lead users" is from my viewpoint not OK. Because of the page's position the delisting candidates get much less attention than the FP candidates - delisting through a backdoor because some users do not like this image afterwards. For me it is not a good idea to delist a FP after less than a year. Votes should be accepted even if they are not from lead users (in May 2012 there were 7 pro and one neutral vote) - otherwise the whole voting process is useless. None of the delisters here were involved in the former voting. --Tuxyso (talk) 09:17, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that (in this case) we have not enough reviewers for graphical works. So many of the votes are (including me) just "filler votes" to make the quorum based on the arguments of a few real reviewers. I think the current nominator is a good graphic designer to whom we can depend. Do you disagree with any argument he raised? The position of the delist part in this page is not good; hardly any visibility. JKadavoorJee11:32, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I must confess (same as you) that I cannot make qualified assesments for graphical work (the reason why I normally do not vote pro or contra for them). My keep-vote was merely against the process initiated here. The given arguments against the illustration seem plausbile (but too late). IMHO it is not really fair towards the creator or former nominator. Another reason for keeping might be that here on Commons is currently no alternative to this illustration thus it has a high EV and has generated a high "Wow" for former reviewers. Delisting an FP candidate with 7 Pro (on 0 contra) votes after less than one year devaluates the assesments of the former reviewers. From my perspective of a layman the bad quality of the text with its hard edges and the unsharpness of the satellite is disturbing. Assumed the reviewer on FPC are not competent enough it might be better to have a separate excellent illustration or excellent graphical work and to restrict FPC to photographs. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with you on the point it is not really fair towards the creator or former nominator. But in this case (only in this case) the creator is just (?) an organisation who has no (?) feelings. The nominator is not responded so far. I can't fully agree with the point on keep since no alternative to this illustration is available because sometimes we have to delist one inferior one to maintain the reputation (?) of COM:FP. JKadavoorJee17:27, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment About 3D positions. Titan is up to .3 deg of from Saturns equator which in turn is up to 26.7 deg of from its ecliptic. Since the camera position is so close to Titan relative to Saturn it doesn't have to become a perfect plane. Averater (talk) 08:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose - To hard flash, and could have benefited from a tighter crop. As it is now it is just a fly on a flower with a leaf at the left side. - Averater (talk) 09:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info -- The older one was taken with a Tokina macro 100 mm. In this one I used an old (and cheap) Nikkor 35-70 zoom, my very first lens for Nikon D80, bought second hand. The problem is I still don't have the appropriate glass for the new camera... Anyway image quality seems good enough and composition is much better imo. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:32, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I don't like the bokeh (disturbing objects in the lower part) and the centered composition is a bit boring to me. Gidip (talk) 17:23, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Nice lighting and clouds. Composition is good but could be zoomed out a little more. Also, I did not know that you could shoot at 1/100s, f/13, ISO 200 at night ;-). King of♥♦♣ ♠ 05:13, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Quality and composition (after I've realized that the motive is the park not the high-riser) is very good. I would prefer a slightly wider crop at the left to show the circle of the red stones completely. --Tuxyso (talk) 13:38, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good composition; I particularly like the way you set the leading lines into play. The burning you did to the clouds adds to the dramatic mood. I wonder if you could improve the shot by controlling the white balance better; for me, however, this doesn't mean the picture should not be featured. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:06, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support With a lesser hand this would just look like a too-busy attempt to make this shot. But you realized the idea. I love it ... it makes Chicago look practically utopian. Daniel Case (talk) 04:53, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Thank you to Citron for this appointment. You actually see a stingray. 18-th century sailors, especially Dutch, were masters to transform this stuffed fishes, they sold as evidence of the existence of sea monsters.
This specimen dates from this period. It owes its preservation to the multiple layers of varnish. This fraud continues even today, with android forms (see article quoted above). The "Little Dragon" form is extremely clever and very difficult to do. Human imagination has no limit. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 06:46, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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it would'nt be a big deal to erase the wires. But do we want a beautified picture instead of the encylopedic reality and does the deep hanging wires really interfere the impression so much? --Wladyslaw (talk) 11:17, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wladyslaw, it seems that you doesn't accept criticism. It is very far to be one of the best pictures we have on Commons. I'd even oppose it as QI because of the poor composition. Now it is possible that one can't make a better picture from the ground, but it doesn't change anything as a FPC. Yann (talk) 19:41, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't feel enough about this photo to vote one way or another. But I would definitely oppose erasure of the wires as representing a gross departure from encyclopedic reality. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 02:20, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This photo could have benefited from having been taken from a higher altitude. As it is now the foreground (which is mostly cropped away) bothers me. - Averater (talk) 09:40, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Roque Cinchado (volcanic plug on the left) with the Teide (highest summit in Spain) in the background, Teide National Park, Tenerife, Spain Poco a poco (talk) 21:27, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
weak oppose For sure: A nice view on the Teide. But IMHO you chose the wrong daytime thus the shadows are too harsh and the light is a bit unfortunate. Your photo is taken at 14:32 wheras this one (nearly the same date, yours in December, this one in January) File:Teide2007.jpg is taken at 18:12 and has IMHO much better light. Composition and quality is not that special that let me change to support despite the light. If possible, please add a geotag. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:51, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very good colors, sharpness and composition. The light is a little bit harsh indeed. But the location is situated at rather high altitude, so the light is often harsh there. -- MJJR (talk) 22:25, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I kind of like the harshness but lack a clear motif, what is the picture supposed to depict other than a nice scenery? - Averater (talk) 09:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I also see techincal shortcomings, but this image has a lot of "Wow inside". The sharp line is probably due to the use of a skylight filter. --Tuxyso (talk) 13:16, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info The initial version was voted a featured picture, but in the meantime a newer version with a much higher pixel count was uploaded which shows a significant blur and is very unsharp due to its pixel blur. The newest file version is not a featured one. (Original nomination)
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Oppose By Kruusamägi: For me also the composition is not fully convincing. The hills in the background virtually cut the top part of the trees and the centred position is IMHO a bit boring. --Tuxyso (talk) 15:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose By Kruusamägi as well, there's no wow, unfortunately. Also, a plane is lazily flying into the frame and leaving a contrail at the top, which is just weird. Kind of dead colors (nothing wrong with muted colors, but here it serves to hurt the image more); just two trees with birds in them, something I see outside. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies03:11, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Abstain as author. Thanks to Tomer T for having nominated the picture : frankly, I wouldn't have nominated it myself in FP and I'm still not convinced, even though some of my Commons friends, known or unknown, like it. Anyway, thanks to all reviewers. --JLPC (talk) 15:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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InfoBombyliidae bee-fly. Article editor's comment: "This little bee-fly really appealed and had all the easily seen features. Note the bright bands of coloured hair, the long and thin legs and upright posture, the "delta wings", the proboscis and the forward pointing antennae". All by me -- JKadavoorJee09:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as nominator. Sorry; but the above reasons are not enough for an FP. Image quality is very poor. Subject is not well identified too. JKadavoorJee09:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't understand the oppose as nominator bit, but it's interesting that the picture was taken at exactly 10 degrees north! -- ~y (talk) 10:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral These old fortifications are quite interesting. In this case I think there is too much sky compared to the subject in the composition. The dark shadowy cypress(?) trees on left are a little cut out and distract me a little - they make too much contrast near the corner compared to the other nicely lighted hillside plants. Perhaps a different composition and/or other time of the day would do. --Ximonic (talk) 12:30, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info all by me. Typical street in Maracaibo city, Venezuela
Question The front wheel appears to be much bigger than the rear one – is that reality or just some kind of stitching-related distortion? --El Grafo (talk) 12:41, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It's reality, people modify their cars, especially the young. Here there is a kind of craft with cars, import problems and the high cost of new cars, people manage to invent new things based on old things. The price of a new car "economic" costs about 8 years of minimum wage, something impossible to buy for most people. I've seen really interesting cars transformations--The Photographer (talk) 13:24, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so; it is due to the perspective. See the building behind; is the height of the wall on right is taller than on left? I didn't see a problem for it though. JKadavoorJee16:45, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Both constructions are obviously different and far objects look smaller. The house is on the right has very large windows. This unique style of colonialism is also high doors for people entering with mounted their horses. --The Photographer (talk) 17:35, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"far objects look smaller". That's all. Rear wheel is farther than front wheel; so looks smaller. (I'm an automobile engineer by education. We can't use different dia. wheels an a vehicle; the balancing, weight distribution, stability, etc. will be affected. Most fatal is the effect in balancing; due to the shift of the "center of gravity" to back. Vehicle seems weightless in front; chances that the front wheels don't touch the ground when speed increases. We can use fancy, thick wheels and tyres; but the diameter (wheel+tyre) should be uniform in all wheels if the wheel axles are in the same level.) JKadavoorJee05:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Rear wheel is farther than front wheel; so looks smaller." I took that into account when I wrote that the front wheel looks "too big". In other words: "Given the perspective and assuming the wheels are equal in diameter, the front wheel looks too big". There are three possible solutions for that: 1) some kind of distortion (due to projection during stitching or lens distortion), 2) the assumption of equal diameter is wrong, 3) my sense for proportions needs calibration. Fortunately, The Photographer himself revealed that option 2 is correct, so there's nothing wrong with neither the image nor my brain ;-) --El Grafo (talk) 13:13, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your good feelings. If you ever decide to visit Venezuela, please let me know --The Photographer (talk) 17:02, 4 March 2013 (UTC). Info At the time of this writing the receipt of information that Hugo Chavez is dead. --The Photographer (talk) 22:09, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support A nice photograph of a typical street scene - well done at very high quality. I appreciate your very useful and documentary contributions to Commons (not only your FP candidatures). Keep on shooting :) --Tuxyso (talk) 23:08, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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strong support One of the highest quality photo of a building I've seen here. A lot of Wow from the impressive quality and level of detail. The result is even more impressive if you consider the year of the photo - 2006. Does anyone know which camera was used? --Tuxyso (talk) 09:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Because that rule (COM:FPC#Featuring and delisting rules, number 4) only explains how to feature if more than one choices in a nomination. The correct way is to support/oppose comparing with existing FP. I will (or anybody can) add a delist request for the existing FP because it seems a development based on the arguments at EN:FP. And our attempt should be to choose best instead of relying on mechanistic rules. JKadavoorJee16:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Which rule you are talking about? Is there such a rule: "An FP can't never be replaced by a version even if it is better in aspects." See, our intention is to showcase our best examples to public at Commons:Featured pictures, updating the list frequently. The traffic to Commons:Featured pictures is much higher compared to any other galleries or categories so less chance that people find a better file for their use if it is in a generic gallery (a pity). I'm concerned if other intentions override our primary intention (as I stated above) which is more prominent nowadays. JKadavoorJee06:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is that this is not a nomination for replacement; such nominations should be started in the delisting section. Otherwise, we would have two versions of the same image side by side, both FPs, which is not allowed. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 10:32, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
We don't have a D&R format as in EN:FP (They are also preferring a normal nomination nowadays). So the procedure here is to make feature and delist request simultaneously or to make a delist request after the completion of the new FP request. See the vote of Carschten below. I know this type of nominations are difficult to close by the boat; but we've a lot of experienced "closers" here. Correct me if I'm wrong. JKadavoorJee12:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I stand corrected; I did not notice that a simultaneous delisting nomination was going on. Of course, based on the merits of the image I Support, if and only if the delisting nomination succeeds. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 00:35, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
However, I think a D&R is still preferable at EN:FP; perhaps it should be listed in the main section, but should still proceed as a D&R. They make sense on EN:FP because of the EV requirement, and in most cases there can only be one FP in a particular scope. However at Commons, unless the original no longer satisfies the criteria, we typically accept two FPs of the same subject as long as they were not made at the same time by the same person. But for re-edits like this D&R still makes sense on Commons. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 00:40, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"However, I think a D&R is still preferable at EN:FP". Yes; but EN:FP is manually processed (closed), so lot of room for any type of complicated processing. We can vote in any way like Delist only if any other alternative is Featured, etc. Here the bot only understand standard parameters; and chances that some make any arguments if the closer take a selective decision on his knowledge and experience. I too think only the delist request below is enough if we have parameters like delist and replace. Hope people will agree with the closer in this case. JKadavoorJee04:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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InfoFend in rugby is an offensive move where the ball carrier push away the defensive player with his arm. It generally allows to either break the defense line or avoid being tackled. Here Edwin Maka performs a fend. c/u/n by me -- PierreSelim (talk) 11:53, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Request Savin, it will be very helpful if you (or anybody else) add an English description while nominating so that we can understand the subject better. Google Translator helps me in most cases; but not always. And sometimes even categories are in foreign languages to me. Hope I picked well, this time. JKadavoorJee05:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the nominator's username is A.Savin. The nominator doesn't like to be adressed just by his surname (in Europe it appears impolite). He may be adressed by his first name either. --A.Savin10:39, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I like the composition but I am not convinced about the result. There are too many flares, the light sources are too intense, the crop inthe bottom is improvable and IMHO the exposure time was a tick too long. Poco a poco (talk) 16:13, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry! Composition and quality are sufficient in my opinion. First of all, by looking at the picture I think the main subjects are the tower buildings. That's because how they are composed, and it's good that way! However, the bright light bulbs cause too much distraction for my taste. Of course the prominent light sources can't be removed from their places but they are quite much competing for attention which I think is unoptimal for the subject. --Ximonic (talk) 12:15, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Explanation I am nominating the current FP SR-71 photograph to be delisted (below) and replaced for three reasons:
The current FP is of a smaller size. My current nomination is 2.89 1.7 times larger (thanks to Colin for the correction).
The current FP image's source (dfrc.nasa.gov) has the sRGB color profile. My larger file source's (nasa.gov Dryden Image Gallery) image did not have a color profile assigned at all, giving it a brighter and slightly whiter hue. Irrelevant, striked through.
The current nominee is sharper. When I scaled the larger image down to match the FP image, the FP image was still softer. I can provide screenshots of pixels to show this. Not only this, but half of the FP image is stretched by one or two pixels.
I also enlarged the FP image to 5100 x 3996 and found similar results: this larger image is not an enlargement, it's not blurred or soft.
I assigned the image above the Color LCD color profile, a Photoshop option that matched the colors and brightness of the original file. As Colin points out below, this may not be a standard profile. This was then converted again to sRGB. I did this to keep the image consistent. The alternative image below was immediately assigned the sRGB color profile, and its color and brightness matches the current FP image.– Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies08:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm no expert but I don't think the colour profile stuff you are doing is right. Both images here are set to "AdobeRGB". This profile should not be used for web images. 99% of Wikipedia users will be using a browser, OS and monitor combination that are only capable of handling sRGB, and many will display the wrong colour if AdobeRGB is used. I will have a look at the source JPGs later if I get a chance. Converting a JPG from one profile to another risks colour artefacts like banding as it is not a lossless operation -- setting the profile should be done when first saving a JPG based on a raw or TIFF file. I don't believe there is such a thing as "Color LCD" profile -- this sounds like a name of the profile your PC has defined for your monitor, and is not standard. Colin (talk) 15:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
As I explained in the image descriptions, in the RetouchedPicture templates, after changing the images to either Color LCD or sRGB, the image was then up-converted to Adobe RGB (1998), which was just an automatic thing I have Photoshop set up to do (my working space). What I did was download two copies of the full image, opened one and assigned it Color LCD (I had no choice, if i didn't assign a color profile, the colors went berserk—this is the only option that retained the original look); the second image I opened and assigned sRGB, which darkened the image. Both images were then automatically "upconverted" to Adobe RGB (my working space). I can change this to be sRGB and re-do this process.
I've never noticed any problems viewing Adobe RGB images in my browser, and I didn't know browsers were limited to sRGB; all my other uploads look exactly the same when viewed in my browser as they are when viewed in two different applications I have. But if this is a concern, I have absolutely no qualm re-doing the above steps (the only reason it takes me a while is because i have to re-type up some of the metadata, which was not included in the original file).
As for Color LCD, I'm not claiming that's a real profile or not, but it's what Photoshop recommended because there is no color profile on the JPG. (I had the option of not assigning a color profile, and you should have seen the colors then!) Assigning Color LCD, whether it's a real profile or not, made the image look exactly as it does on the NASA site—on my computer, as I stated above—, so that's why I used it. If you think I should upload the original downloaded file without changing anything, then again, I'm willing to try that. I figured my assigning a profile would simply keep the image appearing consistent since it would finally be Adobe RGB.
Finally, you're absolutely right (about everything, I'm not arguing with you on any point, just clarifying), but if the larger image has no color profile, that's not my fault. Shouldn't one be assigned to it? I found that by assigning sRGB to the larger image (the alternative below), suddenly the colors and brightness matched nearly precisely (color sampler-checked) with the smaller image that is currently FP. In short, I had no choice but to assign a color profile to at least one image, however ultimately destructive it may've been. This larger image is still sharper, even after assigning a color profile, and I just wanted to update the FP. Already, someone on the SR-71 article confirmed the RGB image looks the same (color-wise, at least). – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies16:51, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
That's a lot of talk. In short, here's what I'm willing to do (with your/anyone's approval before I go through all the work):
Replace the above image (currently titled "LCD") with the original file from NASA.gov. No color profile changes (no changes at all).
Replace the alternative image (currently titled "sRGB") with the color profile assigned as sRGB, and left as-is (no upconversion to AdobeRGB). – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies16:56, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Both images are now in sRGB. The image above matches the color and brightness of the original file photo; the image below matches the color and brightness of the FP image. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies18:28, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I've now done some investigations. The original FP appears to be based on the image labelled "3000x2668 JPEG Image (4,406 KBytes)" on this dfrc.nasa.gov webpage and (according to the history log) is a lossless crop of that file to remove the footer banner. The above/below nominations are based on the image labelled "Download Full Size" on this nasa.gov webpage but have had some colour space fiddling done to them. I have come to the conclusion that the original FP is fine, the "larger" Nasa image is crap and there is something wrong with Keraunoscopia's colour setup on his PC. Firstly the original source image is 4,949KB and after cropping is 4,174 KB on Commons. This is 3,000px wide. The source of the new images is only 2,557KB yet is 5,100px wide. As Keraunoscopia notes, the former has an sRGB colour profile whereas the latter has no profile (which isn't uncommon on the web). Examining both closely with Photoshop shows no difference in colour to me but clearly shows the latter to have horrible JPG artefacts due to the high compression. A good example of this is the cockpit or pilot's helmet where the bright white is surrounded by loads of JPG gnats. There is no extra detail on the "larger" image at all. Someone has blown it up and saved it with high compression without indicating the colour space (which is almost certainly sRGB anyway). So I propose that actually the new images should simply be deleted from Commons as inferior versions of the FP.
As for why Keraunoscopia is seeing colour problems, see this (slightly out-of-date) article. I wonder if you are using a Mac or a PC, if you have a standard or wide gamut monitor, if you have installed the correct profile for your monitor, what browser & version you are using and what version of Photoshop you are using. In your Photoshop File Handling Preferences, have you got "Ignore EXIF Profile Tag" checked (it should be unchecked). -- Colin (talk) 19:08, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I withdraw my nominationabove image only then (not the alternative). I'm on a Mac, Firefox 16 (and I see an school bus yellow car). Do you really not see any color difference between this and File:Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.jpg? My "Ignore EXIF Profile Tag" is (and was) unchecked. This is both embarrassing and really depressing. I'm so sorry for having wasted your time (and wasting my own, I had another thing I could've been working on). – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies20:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No difference, in Firefox or Chrome or in Photoshop. I have Window7. However, I think the difference for you might be how the Mac interprets JPGs with no colour space. If you have the mixed joy of having a wide colour gamut display then this is closer to AdobeRGB than sRGB (often there are presets to switch between these on the monitor setup). According to that article I linked the Mac is perverse when it comes to JPGs with no profile -- it doesn't assume they are sRGB (which they almost certainly are) but assumes they are the colour profile of your monitor. If your monitor is set to AdobeRGB then it will display the wrong colours for such images.
But even with JPGs that are set to sRGB there can be problems with wide colour gamut monitors. The problem with some of the "better" browsers that are colour managed is that they appear (to me) to do the transform in a naive "nearest colour" mapping, whereas Photoshop/Lightroom will dither the colours when transforming and displaying the file. Although AdobeRGB has a wider colour palette than sRGB it still has the same 8-bits of limited range in the JPG, so those colours are further apart. A particular shade of red in sRGB may well have no counterpart in AdobeRGB -- Firefox will simply pick the closest and Photoshop will dither. This leads to banding in the sky with the browser for example but not in Photoshop. So if I use a colour managed browser on my display set to AdobeRGB, I can see posterisation in some images on the web. I don't get that problem if I view the same image in Photoshop which nicely dithers the sRGB JPG for my AdobeRGB display. So for web browsing and FP reviewing, I switch my monitor to sRGB emulation and use Firefox which I've set to be not colour managed -- no banding and the correct colours provided the image is sRGB. It is a bit of a pain. Colin (talk) 21:01, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You know what, though, I think I went about this the wrong way. I should have never uploaded the above image or even brought up the color profile issue, because I think I created an unintentional distraction. So assume for now I was only nominating the alternate version below.
(When I compare the two images I linked to just above your last reply, I don't see any difference either. I only ever had a problem when I opened the no-assigned-color-profile image in Photoshop and had to assign one—my mistake in assigning the Color LCD profile. If I assign it sRGB, then it still looks exactly like the current FP, so I don't think I have a problem—and I'm certainly not seeing any banding in the browser.)
Ok next, you mentioned file size. (Sorry for getting my math wrong, you're right, it's 1.7 times larger.) I took the lossless crop from the FP image, and enlarged it to 5100 x 3996, and flipped back and forth between the large Dryden Gallery image and the enlarged FP image, and the large Dryden image was still sharper. I don't think the large Dryden image was enlarged, like you suggested above. If it had been, the noise in the desert background (at the very top, it's extremely easy to see) wouldn't be crisp, it would be blurred. Are you absolutely positive this 5100 x 3996 image is an inferior product? The pilots heads look like regular noise that I've seen on many other images on Commons; artifacts, sure, but crisp and clear, not what an enlarged artifact would look like, right? – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies22:38, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Well there's the size in pixels and the size in terms of bytes. The "larger" image is only 0.6x of the filesize of the smaller one. Yet is has 2.9x more pixels. How can that work? It is fairly obvious that it has been compressed to death. (BTW I'm talking about the source pictures -- the ones you have saved and uploaded were saved with a low compression setting -- and you get a large filesize as the new JPG faithfully records all the artefacts in the old one). Now open up both source pictures. Enlarge the smaller to 5100 wide using a good quality resampling algorithm. The look at the front cockpit. The triangular window has a nice white edge. The nearby edge of the aircraft that goes from grey to black is also nicely smooth. Compare with the new picture and you see loads of JPG gnats round those edges because JPG can't handle contrasting edges when highly compressed. Now look slightly up at the blue-tinged area and compare the two. The newer picture clearly shows the 8x8 structure of a JPG (it is composed of 8x8 tiles) with very sharp edges on the tile borders. The older picture shows none of the 8x8 tile artefacting because it has been saved with a low level of compression. I'm afraid any extra "detail" in the newer picture is just JPG artefacting and an illusion. Colin (talk) 11:59, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking a little more, it would be odd (but not totally surprising) for someone to enlarge the smaller picture. What is certain is that the smaller picture is not derived from the larger one, because it is so damaged by the high compression that it wouldn't generate the clean artefact-free smaller image. Therefore both images may have a common large ancestor. This is an old photo, pre-dating digital cameras. So the ultimate source is a negative or a print. There is a regular pattern noise on the images that suggests it might be a scan from a print. So there may be a TIFF on someone's hard drive that is large and uncompressed. I'm absolutely certain, that the large image we have here is so damaged by the compression that it contains no extra detail. Even if it wasn't badly compressed, it still might not contain more detail as the original might be somewhat soft or have artefacts from the printing process or film noise -- we won't know. Colin (talk) 12:55, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I definitely see what you're talking about—I did as you write, which is what I did yesterday also. That extra sharpness was what I thought was simply noise, but maybe it's a bit too crystal sharp (there's no distinguishing mid-tones between certain pixels). Since the source is from actual film (which I was aware of), I was expecting to see film grain too, but I suppose I don't know what I'm looking for. So the sharp JPG pixels are artifacts and not a clearer image then. Well, I think I'm convinced. Definitely, both images must be derived from some master file somewhere, and I suppose that would be the only file to actually be worth locating. Ok, sold! I'm withdrawing everything. Once again, thanks so much for your help ;) – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies22:17, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support this version so far (it's a little more contrasty). I may change my mind as I read comments :P -- – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies08:25, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Question Sorry if this is a stupid question, the video is released on his website as CC-BY, but would that include the music? – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:36, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Is it just me that is feeling sad looking at this video? It is a technically brilliant video but I'm deeply disturbed by the methods used to capture this behavior. I'm against the use of captive animals for human entertainment and these cheetah runs are definitely that. There is a lot of 'wow' to see something like this but little empathy for the poor animal which leads a life in prison :(. -- ~y (talk)
Unfortunately I see it as an advertisement and not a message. There's one line about their plight in the end and a link to commercial websites/organizations! Do we need the vulgar show of power over captive animals to put across the message when there's tons of films shot in the wild (which are better by being natural IMO)? I guess we do for more audience, but abusing (or exhibiting) captive animals is something I deeply detest. :( -- ~y (talk) 08:13, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I knew that would come up in this discussion eventually. Thanks for going through my contributions to pick up the one captive non-domesticated animal! I've hated myself for going to that orca show because I didn't know better in 2009 (and it is only on commons as encyclopedic content for a wikipedia article). In fact, I hate myself each time I look at it and feel sad for the plight of the beautiful orcas (which I've seen in the wild). So, your point of bringing that up was because I have posted ONE picture of a captive animal means I have no right to air my views on showcasing captive animals? Also, I do have many photographs of captive animals from a long time ago (at a time when I thought it was OK because big names did it) and that in no way means I like doing it now or in the future, or encourage photography of captive animals or support it. I believe that's a change for the good and I think it is up to the big organizations to encourage that change. The least we (or at least I) can do is to oppose featuring captive animals and encourage wild content. Sorry for the long comment. -- ~y (talk) 08:48, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No sarcasm here, please. Your negative vote was accompanied by the statement that the picture should have been submitted to "Featured Video Candidates", because "here at FPC we have no established rules to assess moving images." It that was intended to be your reason for opposing the picture, then it seemed possible that your negative vote was in error, since "Featured Video Candidates" does not exist. It appears, however, that you had merely made a comment in addition to your negative vote. I just needed to know which was which. Peace? Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 08:20, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Please submit to Featured Video Candidates. Here at FPC we have no established set of rules to asses moving images. B.p.12:02, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wish I was solar-powered, but what's your point? My eating habits should decide what I like or don't like? So, you're telling me all meat eaters should support animal cruelty and ill treatment? I've worked in wildlife reserves and I've seen the kind of silly things people do to get photographs and videos that were inspirational. Chasing animals with cars, shouting at them to get an expression, driving off-road and capturing them for the sake of a video or a photograph is more common than you think. Remember, there are inexperienced amateurs trying to copy photographs and videos using far more cruder and dangerous methods. And that's just a small part of the larger issue I have with captivity and treatment of wild animals for the purposes of entertainment, which by the way is very different from sustenance and conservation. I'm not debating the quality of the video, just the larger implications it has. It's fine to think this video awesome (I know it is awesome), but I have personally seen a lot of negative consequences resulting from videos and photographs made in "controlled environments" and it is worrying. -- ~y (talk) 13:57, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
@Yathin and his opposers: The ethics in nature photography is beyond the scope of this page, I afraid. We've similar discussion earlier; where Richard Bartz says "DONT KILL ANIMALS!". But we all know killing, dissection, and study are part of education. But the limit how much we can go is always a question though. I think the best compromise is to vote on individual ethical stand and respect others on their stands. I've not a firm stand in this case, honestly. JKadavoorJee16:37, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. I'm generally opposed to anything captive and it will always get an oppose from me. I was just mentioning my reasons for the oppose in my vote (instead of a simple "captive" or anything else equally useless). I know I'm going to be a minority, but at least it serves as food for thought. Also, the behind-and-scenes, credits and branding at the end is perhaps like putting up pictures with watermarks which is why I thought this was like an advertisement as well! There is no harm in having healthy discussions as long as there are no personal attacks -- which are unfortunate. In the end, everyone who works with animals thinks about their welfare, which is good. -- ~y (talk) 17:05, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry for derailing the conversation, I souldn't have done it. Just for the clarity of what I said : I'm French, and in French, we have two different words for "plant-based diet" (végétalien) and "life without exploitation of animals, in food, clothes, entertainement..." (végane). Both can be translated by "vegan" in English but I was talking about the latter. I'm always bothered by people claming one kind of animal exploitation is bad while doing other kinds when they could easily avoid them (and for the record, I know that for a lot of people, plant-based diet is not easy). Concerning your point about "setting a bad example", I understand it (I know a flickr group about birds that doesn't allow pictures of nests because of unfortunate consequences for the youngs in the said nest) but feels like it is something we can't endorse in Commons. I will not talk about veganism / animal advocacy until I'm in front of a nice beer and actually talking and not writting, I promise :) Léna (talk) 12:24, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No worries! Written discussions can obviously sound heated when they are not, especially in matters like this which tend to have people (like me) who strongly believe in an ideology. I have previously opposed nest/captive photographs on FPC for similar reasons. As per JKadavoor and others, this is definitely not in the scope of commons, but it is always good to put forward a thought and a reason for the oppose, hoping that it may change in the future. Every small change helps in making it a better place for the animals (like the popular nest photography bans). You're welcome to drop by to Oslo for a discussion because I could go on for hours about this! ;) -- ~y (talk) 13:02, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Great quality, and the amount of animal cruelty in parks is minimal compared to the amount in the food industry, also I don't think this affects the value of this footage. What I'm wondering though: Isn't a credit roll at the end somehow equivalent to a watermark on a photo and should be replaced to identical credit in the description and then removed? I'm not saying that would be good, just asking. --Julian H. (talk/files) 16:48, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think that is necessary. For photos, a watermark detracts from the illustrative value of the photo, since photos are meant to be consumed in their entirety. However, for videos with credits at the end, a user could just choose not to view the credits if they wanted. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 13:15, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment There is an issue with one of the musical pieces in the video. I've discussed the issue with Lynnemusic, and I have informed them that their music will be replaced in the video -- this will be done by way of this bugzilla request in which a same quality video without the sound will be overwriting this file. russavia (talk) 06:58, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is one of my favorite animals and I respect your message. But Sorry, I can't support this video. For me it is boring and the music as well. And it shows no real hunting. Hockei (talk) 18:55, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info / Done I've uploaded a new version with removed ghost. IMHO the beautiful lightning and sky comes out better with this new version. @Jkadavoor: It is the courtyard as tagged. The photo you linked to shows Schloss Broich from the outside. If you go through the entrance from the outside photo you see the motive I've nominated here. (Courtyard = Schlossinnenhof) --Tuxyso (talk) 08:45, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I don't like the stronger HDR effect, but that would be ok if not for the clipped whites in the clouds that you created now. The old sky was very nice imho. --Julian H. (talk/files) 11:51, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
There are not clipped whites, sorry. Please look at the histogram. Another indicator that highlights are better managed in this new version: Please compare the top of the roof (at the very right side, at the "Blitzableiter"): In the old version some details were slightly burnt out, it is not the case in the new version. Additionaly the sky in the new version shows much more details than grey of the old version (which comes ofter from highlight correction). More clipped whites in the new version would be strange because I've added an underexposed (-4EV) for the new processing to bring out more details of the sky. --Tuxyso (talk) 12:08, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
You're right, they are not white but grey, but they still look like clipped whites. And whether or not they are white doesn't really matter, they are bright and almost featureless areas with sharp edges, and that doesn't look good to me. Clouds don't have sharp edges. And the sky doesn't have this dark-blue-grey colour it has now, in this editing. --Julian H. (talk/files) 12:19, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
File:Schloss-Broich-2013-01-temp.jpg-4 EV with original non-pimped blue sky. Out of the cam. I've used a polarizing filter. I have NOT pimped the sky. Look at the orignal (underexposed 4 EV) file. It's not my fault that the sky looks that way. I prefer a more blue sky. --Tuxyso (talk) 12:59, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not saying anything's your fault. HDR editing software always manipulates every part of the image heavily and with no respect to reality. That's just what it does, locally selective tone-mapping. I'm just saying the result of what this software does is, in my eyes, very far away from reality in a non-pleasing way. Just like the editing done by the software, this isn't absolute or provable, it's just subjective perception. It all comes down to: I like the old version better. Ymmv. --Julian H. (talk/files) 13:23, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Info After the review of Julian (and others in a German DSLR forum) I've created an alternative without ghost and (hopefully) better and smoother sky (in den previous version there were some halos at the building and a darker area between clouds). I hope it is OK to put this alternative?! --Tuxyso (talk) 21:46, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
weak Oppose Better than the original nomination, not doubt, but the lighting is not really outstanding and the missing wow cannot compensate it, sorry Poco a poco (talk) 16:10, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your comment. After your (and other comments) it is clear that the alternative version is better. What's the best way now? Should I withdraw the original nomination? --Tuxyso (talk) 16:38, 25 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
InfoFrank Schulenburg made slight (but very good) local adjustments. In order to avoid a further alternative here I've overwritten my photo with his version (with his his approval of course). If one thinks that is a problem please tell me and I will revert. --Tuxyso (talk) 17:56, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This alternative is no doubt a lot better then the first one. But I lack something to make the photo interesting. A wider shot or something happening in the scene could maybe have helped? - Averater (talk) 09:12, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Feel free no nominate it :) My intention was not to nominate two motives for FP of a similiar object nearly at the same time - so I had to decide. One remark to your comment "But I lack something to make the photo interesting." - IMHO it is a bit inconsistent that you vote with "Pro" for IMHO a quite ordinary church with average light and mood above (yes, one sees the surrondings, but is that a reason for FP?) and vote here with "Contra" (not with neutral) for an important castle with interesting light. I think the lightning of the castle is intersting, because the left side in golden sun light, the right side in shadow but with all details visible due to HDR usage. I do not challenge your assesment, nonetheless for me it is not really understandable.
BTW: I have another photo (not uploaded) with a wedding horse buggy on the courtyard. I hesitate to upload it becasue the light is not that good and the encyclopedic value questionable. --Tuxyso (talk) 16:07, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
These matters are by nature subjective and what differs between the church and this is that that kind of photo is one I'd rather have on my wall than this. But obviously that is my personal opinion and I don't think there is anything wrong with your photo. - Averater (talk) 21:30, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your clarification. And for sure: Assessing FP candidatures is ofter a very subjective matter (also my comment to your review). --Tuxyso (talk) 22:44, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Usage: here in section decoration. It can also be used in articles about the Byzantine architecture and the Medieval architecture as well as the architecture of the Second Bulgarian Empire.--MrPanyGoff07:03, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment -- Obviously good [even Arsène W. can be seen :)], but a few stiching errors and CA (see notes, please). FP after fixing, of course. --JLPC (talk) 09:59, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose 3.17 Megapixels are not enough for a landscape panorama in my opinion. There are also slight CAs, but because of the low resolution they are only clearly visible when zoomed in. --Julian H. (talk/files) 10:40, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose With or without the border, this is a picture of a mountain (and not just any mountain; the highest on its continent) which looks flat. Daniel Case (talk) 04:30, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Info Mount Kosciuszko is not very high :-( It is an easy walk (not climb) to the top, so it looks flat from the top because gradient of the surrounding area is not very steep. --Reflexio (talk) 12:25, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
So is this taken from the mountain, or of it? The filename would suggest the former. Please clarify (Never mind, I figured it out).
In any event when dealing with a flat-topped mountain, even a high one, one should keep in mind that the summit of any mountain that is the highest in its range generally offers a weak view, since every other summit will usually be below the view plane.
In those cases it generally works better, if one is looking for that "wow" an FP is supposed to have, to photograph the mountain from somewhere where it looks as imposing as you can make it, like this. Daniel Case (talk) 22:59, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, accept that view. My intent was to show a panorama from the top of the mountain. There are plenty of photos of the actual mountain.--Reflexio (talk) 10:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment This is a beautiful photograph but there's a very similar featured picture. I personally think there should be only one featured picture of a similar composition of a species. Not sure what the rules are for featuring very similar photographs but will support if that's not an issue. -- ~y (talk) 10:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Because this picture is better, with sharp focus on the head. Yathin, we don't have such a rule (unlike in EN:FP); but people can vote based on their stands (or even make a delist request). JKadavoorJee11:18, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support -- With almost 185K views, this is one of the top viewed Creative Commons photos on Flickr. There is some color fringing on the west wing but who is really looking that hard? Marcus Qwertyus (talk) 21:34, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, to me a typical image with "big wow" in preview but a rude awakening at full size. Imo clearly overprocessed, with unnatural green of the trees, extreme unsharpness and noise at the edges, some magenta CA as well. --A.Savin23:05, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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WeakSupport Seems a little too bright/low contrast and would have liked more space on the left, but still a nice photograph. -- ~y (talk) 06:45, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I like the variety of ripeness of the grapes. But the blown white sky is distracting and the picture is noisy. Colin (talk) 20:17, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support This photograph has been made with a 2x convertor and it is of very high quality for the optics combination. At full resolution, few wildlife photographs are sharper when the subject is a small part of the image (and looks like this photograph has not been downsized or processed much even). I think the image is beautifully composed and has sufficiently high quality for being a FP. And incredible colors! -- ~y (talk) 15:53, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support to begin with; although I've little knowledge about the techniques here used. Will reconsider my vote if any arguments raised. We may think about a solution on reviewing such works. I don't like them pass without any comments; it is not good to our contributors. JKadavoorJee11:36, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Kelvinsong has made much better images. In my opinion this doesn't express that well how a sponge "works" and the place where text is located is a bit crowded. Kruusamägi (talk) 19:15, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I don't like that parts of his head is blocked by the fire. Composition could have been better if taken from another angle. - Averater (talk) 09:49, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Interior of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque ("Blue Mosque"), Istanbul, Turkey. Exposure fusion from 2 exposures (3 EV). Created, uploaded, and nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 21:05, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Where are the bells ? oh sorry, it is not Notre-Dame... Very nice, very good light, shame of the moving man, but still a wonderful picture for me. Congrats !--Jebulon (talk) 21:58, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Clearly over-exposed image. My picture is much closer to reality, is also my picture taken a very gray winter with weaker light from the outside.--ArildV (talk) 12:50, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes; the bottom half. But I love it (the upper half) than this much darkness. Just my opinion; others may have different... JKadavoorJee13:23, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
For the first time; decline because the photo is NOT overexpoused! I made the mistake apparently to upload a picture that showed mosque as it is, not as you think it should look like (and it does, how absurd it may sound, the picture worse as you).
From now on (if your opinion will guide), all interior photos to be either: a) over-exposed, b) heavily manipulated to suit your taste for how a building should look. The educational value is obviously irrelevant. Better to fool visitors to Wikipedia with a fake, manipulated image.
Arild, I can't see any details here. Most of the artworks on the walls are very, very dark. I don't think lack of overexposure is a reason to support. The interiors of many buildings may be very underexposed; but our eyes have the ability to adjust themselves to see properly; the camera lacks it. That is why we use other techniques like HDR (or whatever maybe).
My opinion is just my opinion; it has nothing to do in the rejection of an FP! (I think you know it well. Nowadays my votes only attract revenge votes, so chances that you get at-least 5+ blind supports for this single oppose. Am I withdraw my oppose?) JKadavoorJee15:47, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I can't see any details here? Excuse me, you must have an incorrectly adjusted monitor. I can see every single piece of the ceramic tiles, no details on the walls is lost in darkness. And it is a HDR, which has given a correct exposure of the inside while the details and colors of the windows are preserved.
I dont know and dont care about revenge votes (if there exists). If we begin to think about FP/QI-politics before we vote, we become corrupt. I may be naive, but I never think about it. And would you nominate a good picture today, I would support.--ArildV (talk) 16:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose The composition with a lot of unimportant space does not convince me, sorry. Even if you choose a tighter crop I am not sure if the motive, light and quality would justify FP. --Tuxyso (talk) 13:33, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support For me, the composition is just right. It puts the church and its surroundings into a context. Any closer and people would have complained about the distracting trees and branches in the shot ;-) Also, the green, blue and red add to the somewhat clean mood of the scene. A smaller aperture would have added more depth of field; however, in this case it's ok, as the background (the smaller trees on the left hand) doesn't matter when it comes to the subject of the image. Great shot, Iifar! --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I have nominated some church photos but it seems that they are viewed as a bit too ordinary. So this image really standed out for me for the reason Frank very nicely embodied to words in last comment. This is not just an image of a church but with a church and its surroundings. Kruusamägi (talk) 21:30, 28 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I see your's and Frank's argument. My comment with "unimportant space" was possibly a bit harsh. I as reviewer can not assess the importance of the church's surrordings. Is it somehow special or seldom? In the description one can only read "Torma church". My general problem with your church nominations is: Churches are too numerous (in Germany nearly every small village has one or two) and too similiar that every well composed photo with good quality can become FP. There must be some additional outstanding value like "light, composition, level of detail, color, sky formation, special very seldom architecture ..." In this photo I see none of these. Nonetheless a nice photo with interesting colors as Frank has pointed out. --Tuxyso (talk) 06:53, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In Estonia each church is unique anyway (but at a same time we only have ca 300-400 of them built over 8 centuries). I have to agree with you on this that the number of churches is so big, that there needs to something special. Maybe even some current and bit similar FB-s about architecture should be compared and poorest of them delisted. For me, how this church fits to the surroundings is special enough and I haven't seen any current FB to be similar to this. But off-course this does not mean that others have to agree with me and it was just this "unimportant space" that disturbed me and why I wanted to make a comment on this. Kruusamägi (talk) 15:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for sharing your thought about Estonian churches - I had not known it before. Probably I am bit biased because small churches in villages are inflationary in Germany. I am unsure if it is a good idea to start a comprehensive delisting of architectural FPs. Probably you can start a discussion about it. --Tuxyso (talk) 16:14, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Peter, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I apologize for the error. I've changed the restoration license to be precisely the same as the original's, and no disrespect was intended to the memory of Curtis by trying to claim his photograph as my own :) – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies20:06, 27 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Construction of the new Golden Horn Metro Bridge in Istanbul. In the background, the famous Galata Bridge. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 19:22, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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KoH, dou you mean the foreground grass? Or the stem just pass behind it's bill? Otherwise, I think it is OK because it is winter. JKadavoorJee16:19, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Not the kind of photo that makes you go wow but not at all bad and very descriptive, showing both flower and leaves. - Averater (talk) 18:26, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Dull lights, shadows on both sides, overall not very sharp, unsharp foreground, little child's angle of view (looking upward?) and plain, too blue sky. This is an example to me how a QI (technically OK) not become an FP (special for my eyes in every aspects). JKadavoorJee07:33, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support The full version, high resolution, restored, of the famous photograph (albumen print) of Hector Berlioz by Pierre Petit. Remember that this picture was taken in 1863. The original (frame also cropped) is available as first version in the file page. Uncropped version available by following the link.-- Jebulon (talk) 21:53, 2 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for review but you are technically wrong I'm afraid. Obviously, you did not see the original... Please notice that the "sepia" color is a choice of the photographer, and is not due to age. Of course, I could desaturate it entirely and make a perfect B&W picture, but it should be a treason...--Jebulon (talk) 11:05, 3 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I changed my vote to comment. I made a grayscale version, and I think it is better, but if the original was like this, I don't oppose. Yann (talk) 13:51, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry no, per above, per our discussion on Yann's talk page, and links provided, giving the evidence that the original author could do this (me too...), and made another choice...--Jebulon (talk) 12:28, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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On second thoughts, it seems smaller than I thought it was. Perhaps I was fooled by the "large image" warning on the description page -- this is only 10MP and 7MB. The original is 3x the size and 116MP and 108MB. I'll have a go later this evening at saving a version that is a teeny bit more compressed to get it under the limit. Colin (talk) 21:21, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nothing extraordinary, nothing special, no wow, nothing different from the tons of other similar pictures already featured.--Jebulon (talk) 20:56, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I have now uploaded the full size version saved using Photoshop quality level 11 out of 12, which reduces the filesize from 107MB to 49MB and no perceptible loss of quality. The image is now 116 megapixels, which I think counts as a "wow". Colin (talk) 22:51, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question Thanks for your effort. Probably you make some explanations how this kind of images are generated because many people (like me) do not really know it. As far as I have understood it, they are generated from large (non-visual) data. The non-visual data are mapped to a visual representation. Who does it? The people on Commons or NASA / ESA? If this file here is somehow special it should be featured, and others delisted. For me it is "just" a visual representation of any object which noone can observe directly. Could also be a visualazation of traffic data obtained from an internet router. Thus I think max. one or two of this kind sholud get FP label - for the quality of the visualization. --Tuxyso (talk) 06:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
+1 Tuxyso; I too want to know such things. I'm a poor Astronomer, want to learn new things. I don't want to oppose things I've little knowledge about. Thanks Colin for your efforts. JKadavoorJee07:49, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nice effort, but after further consideration I will not change my vote: At the moment we have 30+ astro images of the same kind featured (look very similiar, IMHO far too many). I see that this one here is somehow special with regard to its size. But the size changes nothing with the fact that this images are generated from huge amount of data with huge telescope no one on Commons can ever effort. No one can reproduce this work or do it better. I miss a unique act of creation which can be done my a single person which is for me the core of and excellent contribution. Taken an illustration or a nice photo there is (at the beginning) a unique creator who has spent a lot of work with it. This act of human creation is unclear for me (despite the circumstantial information on the description page) with this kind of photos, it seems to me that they are somehow computer processed (in a, for us, non verifiable way). Probably we should nonetheless feature the very best of this computer generated (from data) astro images, but not 30+, sorry. --Tuxyso (talk) 19:17, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I generally agree on this issue with Jebulon/Tuxyso. Nasa and Google Art images can fail to arouse any sense of rewarding someone for a great picture. In fact the 2nd place POTY greatly disappointed me: all the technical qualities of a small posterised GIF and taken by a robot. Perhaps my vote on this was an anomaly and am sure I originally thought I was voting on the larger version (which it now is) which I think is impressive. But different things appeal to different folk -- I guess some astronomers are bored with yet another bird or butterfly or stately home. Colin (talk) 20:18, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I wasn't expecting anybody to change their votes. But I don't like seeing Featured Pictures turning into little more than an art gallery. To me, EV is paramount. I will vote positively on a high EV picture of less than optimal quality taken under difficult conditions, while bypassing many beautiful photos of low EV. Incidentally, I notice that quite a number of other people than myself are in the habit of annotating astronomical images in Commons. So I am merely following a fairly widespread tradition. Stigmatella aurantiaca (talk) 02:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
People often forget the main purpose of Commons:Featured pictures; it is to showcase our best works to the potential end-users, not to appreciate or reward anybody. It is just like the way and target. Appreciating people will encourage them to make more quality contributions; but that it not the (main) purpose. I don't think these all pictures look alike for the proper end-users. Otherwise it is quite applicable to all (animals, landscapes, sculptures, paintings, etc.). JKadavoorJee07:02, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thinking of FP having a "main purpose" isn't helpful IMO. It serves many purposes for the project. I agree that if one's sole purpose is rewarding folk then give them a barnstar. But we are all human. Well, except for Nasa. And Google Art. Colin (talk) 08:30, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Variable Oystercatcher (Haematopus unicolor). "Variable" refers to the frontal plumage, which ranges from pied through mottled to all black. Created, uploaded aand nominated by Jörg Hempel
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Support Very nice perspective and light. The high shooting position gives the photo deepness and plasticity. Two aspects are slightly disturbing (but not enough for decline): Firstly the yellow crane at the right side in the forground which cuts a small part of the Frauenkirche (probabably PS experts could remove it). Secondly the scaffold around the main tower. Scaffolding is a common phenomenon with old German buildings because the town adminstrations are really fanatic with (minor) security issues thus buildings are often scaffoled for an indefinite period of time (the same with the Dome of Cologne). --Tuxyso (talk) 06:39, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I support this fine image of a crane, but who put that damned building there. :) That crane crosses so many tiny details, I wouldn't even begin to attempt to remove it (personally). But your lighting and color are fantastic. Maybe in the future, you can replace it, but this picture caught my eye. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies09:16, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for all the support. Just a note, I've made one visible change since nominating this image, which was to remove a single white spot (a couple pixels sized) in the man's fur hood. It's been driving me nuts for a few days and I decided to remove it. Hope that's ok! – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies22:04, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I like the use of perspective and line here. By the way, there is slight barrel distortion which is apparent in the horizon. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 17:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The name was adopted because they are located next to the auditorium, not because they are an element of it. Therefore you cannot really expect that they are an important part of it. Poco a poco (talk) 22:36, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
But from the text "Ugly & kitsch blocks painted with faces of musicians, singers or celebrities...close to Santiago Calatrava's Auditorium, Tenerife."; I assume it has some connection with that auditorium and its performers. JKadavoorJee05:57, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral A cute (and probably seldom) expression of a tiny dog. IMHO the composition is not optimal. The red-green edge cuts the head of the small dog. In addition I am unsure about the educational value of this photo. Probably you can tell something more about the idea of the photo and its usefullness for Wikimedia projects. --Tuxyso (talk) 21:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I find the subject matter interesting and humourous, but the background colours too jarring and perhaps over-saturated. --Reflexio (talk) 12:29, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The green does not contrast well with the dog's white head. I also question the educational value of this: just what does this teach us?Kurzon (talk) 16:00, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Sunrise/sunset photos are good for "wow", but for an FP I wish some EV as well. Find a usage => get my support. --A.Savin22:54, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Absolutely every photo has a potential EV, order this requirement in the FP is killing creativity. However, I have added extra information in the detail of the image, I hope that this may be sufficient for future use. --The Photographer (talk) 02:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The Photographer, I've to disagree about "killing creativity" - FPC is not the whole Commons - each featured picture ideally should represent a good mixture of quality, wow and EV; if an image fails to become FP, it doesn't mean that the photographer should resign from contributing similar pictures. On the other hand, it's also quite easy to find a usage for a certain image somewhere on wiki - there are numerous pictures of poor or mediocre quality in articles - just be bold to replace them anywhere it makes sense & you can provide a better one... --A.Savin12:14, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Guidelines are just basics; you can go beyond. Answer to your question: I usually search for every possible "subjects" in a work. Here I can see "sunrise", "Eagle Austin" and "Maracaibo lake". "Sunrise" is just a generic topic; so I neglect it. I can't find a relevant article about "Eagle Austin" in projects I'm actively participating. The ship is very vague in this work too. I noticed Lake Maracaibo but not confident enough to add it there. May be you can go bold and check whether any other editors undo it. (If any undo with proper reason occurs; respect it. Don't go for an edit war.) JKadavoorJee16:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Question I'm not familiar with architectural FP noms. Shouldn't the buildings be relatively straight? Right side appears to be curving outward. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies07:22, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Whether they are visible or not doesn't really matter. If you think the grass away and the legs are still cut, then the frame is too tight. Simple photo-technics. B.p.13:14, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Small and overprocessed. Yes the ISO is high but extensive manipulations (to produce an almost HDR effect with no really inky blackness, and fix the underexposure) hasn't helped. Colin (talk) 20:52, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Very interesting, great encyclopedic value and good composition. I really like it. But problematic quality issues as mentioned by others... -- MJJR (talk) 20:58, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Hermitage of Our Lady of the Snows with the summit of the Teide (3718m) in the background, National Park of Teide, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. All by me, Poco a poco (talk) 21:20, 5 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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These both pictures you can hardly compare. The vertical pano could perhaps barely pass as QI, although there are quality issues, where I tend to agree with Poco. Besides, for an FPC I prefer to nominate an unusual view (like this VERY close ultrawide-angle), as we all hopefully know that for a building photograph it's mostly not done with just good technical qualities. --A.Savin10:06, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think it is very unusual or innovative. Any child with a mobile camera (although a bit exaggeration) can shoot like this. It is very disappointing in full resolution; the top is very unsharp, the cross disappear in the air. I'm tempted to replace this with the other picture mentioned at Novodevichy Convent. JKadavoorJee16:27, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I still believe the other picture I mentioned above has more FP motive. We neglect minor technical issues here for the sake of wow (unlike in QI). JKadavoorJee06:09, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Weak support This is perhaps our best full-body color shot of the royal bengal tiger. How about cropping out the car full of tourists?Kurzon (talk) 15:16, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Please make sure, that you do not mistake the presence of dust particles as additional noise. The frame and the environment itself were quite full of dust --Dey.sandip (talk) 07:24, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Though wow is not lacking here (even the car is ok), the quality is very poor (sharpness, noise, blown highlights). B.p.11:09, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I hate such radical image doctoring. Touching up blemishes is one thing, altering a major aspect of the picture is another. Just crop the picture.Kurzon (talk) 09:07, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks like a Canon Wild Click advertisement in India. Good picture in a reasonable resolution (1280x836). A good contribution, even if not an FP. I disagree with any crop suggestion here. JKadavoorJee09:34, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with cropping also. I'm also not supporting the image because it's so noisy. I did this only to prove to myself that I could. The ethics of replacing such a large amount of frame is also probably questionable, even if it's only leaves. Still, here it is. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies10:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm not opposed to it in principle if 1) it achieves a good effect; and 2) it represents something which is likely to have occurred naturally. However, in this case there are noticeable artefacts from the cloning (see notes). --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 03:38, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This edit, essentially destroys the image, a total misrepresentation of reality. I am not even going into the cloning artifacts and other technical things. I understand, if jeep is a major issue for some and hence the original gets oppose votes, but please do not destroy images just for the sake of reinforcing your confidence that you can do edits. --Dey.sandip (talk) 07:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Of course it's a misrepresentation, that was kind of the point. It wasn't even suggested, someone above mentioned a clone job in passing. I only meant this with the best of intentions, more of a simulacrum of a jeepless moment. I never expected it to be supported, and I did not put in any amount of effort into the work that would deserve actual defense on my part (I highlighted the Jeep, used content-aware fill, and cloned out a few of the more blatant areas). It also wasn't my intention to "better" your original photograph in any way. I have no problem deleting the image when this thing runs out. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies07:26, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support From the Bibliothèque nationale de France, a folio of a 16th-century (ca.1510) illuminated (by Jean Bourdichon) manuscript of an epic poem (by Jean Marot), telling to Queen Anne of Brittany the story of her husband the king Louis XII of France and his army in the war against the city of Genoa (1507). Very high resolution. In case of interest, please see the file page for looking at the original, and for some further explanations.-- Jebulon (talk) 21:48, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Is it only to me that all these "Kings" and "Queens" look alike just as in several NASA pictures. Support of course; good EV and quality. JKadavoorJee05:09, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose The composition is unfortunate, the position of the bird is too close to the edge of the photo. But the more critical issue is the missing color contrast between background and bird. The colors are very related (gree tone) thus the bird is not well brought out. --Tuxyso (talk) 22:03, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Guys, to me it is a nice composition, with "air" there where the bird is looking at and the subject is also interesting. The focus is not perfect but overall FP to me. Btw, I uploaded a new version after reworking the saturation and dynamic range. Poco a poco (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No problem for the composition; lead room, rule of third, etc. are OK. (In fact, (I think) it seems a well cropped frame from a large composition. It is good to appreciate new comers and people from underrepresented areas; but quality (details, focus, noise) is still refraining me to support. JKadavoorJee05:25, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral A little cropping at the left would improve the composition. Sharpness is not perfect, but certainly good enough. The (lack of) color contrast is no problem IMO -- MJJR (talk) 21:46, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Thanks. We don't have such a rule; only my view point. I can't see any reason to feature a picture if already a better picture available, eventhough it is nominated by anybody so far. BTW, the picture I mentioned above is not a COM:FP so far. JKadavoorJee05:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I agree to an extent; we don't need hundreds of FPs of cats and dogs and other commonly photographed species. But I think if the images are sufficiently different then it's fine to have more than one FP of a species (or any subject for that matter). --TheHighFinSpermWhale06:53, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I too not that much strict. I support different views (like dorsal, ventral), sexes, forms (dry, wet, breeding) etc. Again, this is (my POV) just a matter of my taste (to reduce the redundancy in FPs). :) JKadavoorJee09:15, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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OK, so I have to understand that you don't like this picture (no wow or whatsoever. It's not FP, correct?). It should have nothing to do with the other one I hope --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 08:58, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Nice, very good composition. Just a thing to correct : there are two white pixels visible at full size to remove. --Selbymay (talk) 21:20, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Per Jee, I also feel that there is too much foreground blur. A crop on the left such that the in-focus monk lies on the rule of thirds would make for an optimal amount of foreground blur. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 07:25, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support: I like the effect of "one person in a long line" that the foreground people create, I think the image would be very different and not necessarily better without it. --Julian H. (talk/files) 07:52, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The focus on the man in the middle is very good. But, when I look at the photo I have a feeling that my left eye glued to the blurred people in the foreground. Hockei (talk) 17:18, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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weak Support While this is a good photo of the structure, the blurry grass at the bottom gives me a headache when I look at it. --Pine✉06:22, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, but most of the subject is in shadow. Would be better at a different time of day. Also, there is vignetting and CA. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 07:43, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The intention was to have the subject (Monopteros) in focus. I didn´t care about the grass and the city in the background should remain unsharp. The shadow is a problem, the direction of view is to the south. But I looked in the TPE - 21 June at 6 clock :-( the sun comes directly from northeast. I'll try again. Thanks for your reviews, I withdraw. Regards. --Arcalino (talk) 18:31, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral On the one hand, great colors and lighting. On the other, the vertical framing is too tight, with parts cut off. --King of♥♦♣ ♠ 03:17, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Almost for the exact same reasons as King. I appreciate that the photographer didn't make the subject/reflection completely symmetrical, but I feel there's too much missing at the top and that too much of the important part is in the top half of the frame. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:57, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info This is an 1890s photochrom of a building that burned down in 1926. Photochroms were a Victorian method for publishing colourised versions of photographs. Adam Cuerden (talk) 18:42, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Long story short, only if you add the text yourself, or if it's not an inherent part of the image. As the text is an inherent part of the photogravure, it'd be fairly misleading to remove it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:12, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
SupportIn reply to above, I'm inclined to disagree, as we're discussing at en-fp, but for Commons, I think this image works perfectly as a documented image and you did a great job bringing those colors to something more akin to real life. I still think a textless version should be used in articles, though. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies20:59, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment IMO, text is not a "text", but part of the original picture ( see Hector Berlioz below ). I agree with Adam Cuerden, and en-fp cannot be a reference here, with all due respect. Everybody is free to crop, or to clone out, the letters.--Jebulon (talk) 21:23, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Very clear image with good size. While it's not an especially eye catching subject the photo was very well executed. --Pine✉06:30, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I don't like the blown area at the very left, and the darkish lower part. Btw, an example of a really wow photo of a church organ: [1]... --A.Savin14:06, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Info Probably the filename is a bit confusing. The idea was not to show a general Wow piture of an organ (for sure there are organs which are much more interesting as the example given by you), but the motive is the interior of the church (Abbey of Saarn) plus the organ. I personally like the high level of details (look at the small pictures painted by children) and the high dynamic range showing even details of the church's pews. The pictures are IMHO not comparable because they show very different motives.
This particular FP was just an example of other existing FP of church interiors. In FPC, quality issues may be evaluated more critically than in QI. And there are some, so just accept my opinion like I'm going to accept anyone's support --A.Savin15:08, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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WeakOpposeSupport – Sorry, I just think it's cropped tightly. Somewhere between this one and the original would be nicer. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies07:01, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
True. Plus the size of the machines is incredible next to actual humans as opposed to rovers being compared to other rovers. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:31, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Emil Jönsson (Sweden) and Alexey Petukhov (Russia) are racing for the finish at the Quebec City Sprint Cross-country Skiing World Cup 2012. Finale Free Team Sprint.
Neutral Despite the great moment, it seems that the tonal range of the image is not correct, because dark parts are clipped out. It would be good to increase exposure a bit and restore darks. Moreover, the local contrast seems to be too high.--Ximeg (talk) 13:24, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep IMHO it is not a good idea to delist everything which is near the 2 Mpx limit. Older images became FP for good reasons (and after discussion). Thus only those images which have obvious technical shortcoming should be delisted. --Tuxyso (talk) 13:12, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose - sorry... a beautiful / spectacular scene, but looks over processed to me, particularly the contrast in the sky. Could you re-submit a less processed version.--Reflexio (talk) 12:38, 14 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose This is just a strange picture. Everything in the foreground is cropped in half, too much dead space (black), the earth isn't even remotely interested to look at and is out of focus anyway, the astronaut looks overexposed, and the horizon is hidden behind his arm. I read somewhere that photograph composition was part of the training, so this one looks like a test shot or a test crop. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies02:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I find the crop is too low (the clouds make a nice arc but are butted up right against the top of the frame; too much nothing at the bottom), and none of the objects appear to be in focus. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies06:38, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This image is modified from File:Hamnen i Mariehamn pa aland.jpg which is taller vertically. However even that version doesn't catch the top of the mast and possibly as a result leave the viewer all the more aware of that shortcoming. Instead, this version doesn't even try and concentrates on the reflections and the more interesting lower sky. If folk were to shift their oppose to support with the original crop (and nobody going the other way!) then I would create a new version alt (I've also applied some NR and removed a dust spot from the original). Wrt Pine's comment on sharpness, please can you judge an appropriately downsampled version rather than pixel-peeping the 10MP version. This is a six-second exposure so there will be some subject-movement on the water -- I'm rather surprised it was still enough for that! -- Colin (talk) 12:15, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Pretty but per Pine. Movement in the water is cancelled out (blurred) by the exposure, so that is not a problem. The wooden poles however are not sharp neither and that, together with some CA is for me an issue. B.p.15:07, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
WeakSupport I don't find the composition ideal; having the top of the mast cut off looks a bit awkward. Still, the colours and the reflections make for a very eye-catching image. --TheHighFinSpermWhale23:05, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral the nordic night is well capture (EXIF-time is is obviously wrong, taken much later ) but I'm not convinced about the crop.--ArildV (talk) 09:41, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Very interesting image but sadly tOo many quality issues. The blurring at the rear is normal, the softness at the front is not. There is also a heavy CA all over the place. Pity. Still a valuable recording. B.p.16:29, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support Great image, but I agree with Biopics. Having the penguins in focus behind and in front of ones that are not takes away from the overall composition. --TheHighFinSpermWhale23:04, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The composition is not convincing me. I prefer a crop of top 1/3 and a little more space in bottom (less practical since this is a Flickr image); or the other composition (still some crop issues). JKadavoorJee05:27, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info The image is under our 2000px requirements, and the colours aren't that vibrant. When compared to other images from Salisbury Plain, there isn't any real "wow" factor with this image. (Original nomination)
Delist Just mentioning that it is under 2 MB requirement and not 2000 px. The quality of the image really doesn't make it a FB in my opinion. Kruusamägi (talk) 13:32, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The size criteria (2MP) is not existed on that time. Further, this image has 1.92 MP size which is not very bad. We recently promoted a file with a bare minimum 2 MP size. So it is not a big issue considering the technology enhancement within 7 years. Other concerns are worth to consider though. JKadavoorJee08:26, 13 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Infotr:Haliç Tersaneleri (Golden Horn Shipyard) with some of the iconic Istanbul ferries. Istanbul, Turkey. The shipyard was founded on the Golden Horn in 1453, after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, and initially called the Galata Shipyard and later Tersâne-i Âmire. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 15:16, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
It is an interesting question. Since the answer is subjective, it is perhaps pointless to try to answer. I like the picture for several reasons. Apart from that I'm in love with the classic ferries. The picture was taken in perfect conditions (before sunset a very beautiful day), the light is very beautiful and suitable for ships and houses in the background, the image shows an Istanbul typical blend of history and new buildings, it is a historic site (the first Ottoman shipyard in Istanbul founded more than 500 years ago) at the legendary Golden Horn, ferries are a typical symbol of Istanbul. It is just my opinion.
Among the images that we created ourselves is sometimes a special emotional relationship caused by the circumstances (e.g. the day, the light, the location,...) that leads us to think it is a brilliant image, but it can´t be felt in the same way by other (re)viewers. That happens to me too. Then I don´t understand why others can´t see (or feel) what I see (or feel). But it makes the reviews in Commons so valuable for me, because I can learn a lot from the other reviewers. Best regards --Arcalino (talk) 17:35, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Noise, sharpness and banding can be improved within a reasonable resolution reduction, will do that tomorrow and add as alternative (from original tiff-file). --Julian H. (talk/files) 22:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose This is a photo of a static object. For that, resolution - and sharpness at this already low resolution - should be higher. Noise and compression artifacts are minor problems, too. Great composition, no doubt, but quality is insufficient imo. --Julian H. (talk/files) 08:03, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Original building of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia. Must have been taken at the beginning of the 20th century but not after 1918 (note the Alexander III statue in front of the cathedral, it was demolished in 1918). Created by an unknown photographer; cleaned, uploaded, & nominated by --A.Savin18:56, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - the valuability of this photograph does it imo: it's a unique historical view in a high resolution with good detail. -- A.Savin18:56, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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weak oppose: A very nice motive and composition and as we know from earlier contributions the photographer masters his craft very well. But IMHO this panorama is too hazy for me (especially in the background) and misses clearity. It's difficult to have a nice day with very clear air AND snow, but this could be the difference between FP and QI panoramas. --Tuxyso (talk) 06:51, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The haziness here could be reduced with some editing, but I think it creates depth and gives information about the scale of what you see. --Julian H. (talk/files) 09:04, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
you're right. The days of the year in which it is absolutely clear, very little. The distance to the mountain range in the center 14km measures! Please take this into consideration. Nevertheless, thanks for voting. --Böhringer (talk) 10:24, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose It's not easy to make the perfect FP picture of a butterfly. There are too many imperfections here sadly: DOF, detail and even lighting. Keep on trying though. B.p.17:57, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Horizon looks oversharpened. What a weird path, though, it appears this is doing more damage than a simple single-track would do. – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies02:29, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment It is 2.3Mx (1269 × 1800), up of the 2Mx required. Moreover is the only free image about this person and I think is well done.--Dvdgmz (talk) 07:36, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Per B.p. Good composition, but the quality is nothing more than a tourist snapshot. The wide support is a puzzle. --A.Savin10:26, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Megapixels don't correlate with camera quality, camera price, image quality or photographer abilities. The image is blurry even in the 1024 pixel wide preview. If this is a rare animal, it might still be a valuable photo, but not a featureable one imo. --Julian H. (talk/files) 13:43, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Question do you mean the file name? The image description says: "Felimare picta at Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary, Savannah, Georgia." Otherwise it is simple to rename this image. Your proposal? --Alchemist-hp (talk) 15:13, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No I was too fast. I was referring to the Hypselodoris name above. A file rename after processing FPC will do fine. Thanks for notifying me. B.p.15:22, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Keep I see no problem with this image. Size must not be the only argument for delisting. DoF is well managed, lightning is nice. Should only be delisted if there is a better alternative. --Tuxyso (talk) 10:23, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I wouldn't say that lightning is nice. And there are a lot of good flower images as FBs therefore I don't see any problem here. But the size itself: 1024×1280 px is far too low anyway. Kruusamägi (talk) 16:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info created by Tuxyso - uploaded by Tuxyso - nominated by Tuxyso Reason for nomination: I somehow like the composition and colors. Motive is the village church of Mülheim Saarn shown together with an historic building with interesting blue window shutters. -- Tuxyso (talk) 15:22, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, it's a good picture but I'm really not that impressed. For me the composition is too busy ... I'm not sure what I'm supposed to look at. Daniel Case (talk) 02:21, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info I long ago proposed this same picture, however, I had a problem I've corrected perspective. This picture is perhaps the most important for me in all my photos. After eight days of walking and climbing trip, freezing temperatures, we went down and I capture this shot. I wish to say that this was a decision designed, however, this was a fluke. I was too tired to make a decision and a traveling companion told me - why not take pictures of that?. This is seen as capturing wild animals living in the Sierra Nevada, they have learned to live in peace. A bull patent leather, a mule and a horse in the same picture. This photo does not have maybe the quality I would like, therefore, was not done with a DSLR camera. -- The Photographer (talk) 02:32, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support If I rem correctly, there was one which showed half of what this one shows. I must say this one is much more eye catching --Muhammad (talk) 06:20, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The term in English feral organism (from Latin fera, "a wild beast"), I did not know this, thank you very much. These animals escaped from farms over 100 years ago to settle at altitudes of 4600 meters, there is the only food fed there, called frailejon. They are not friendly animals and is not recommended approach them, not Beast Wars Transformers domestic, they are wild beasts. :) Thanks
Comment Interesting scenery, maybe you could add info on the processing with a panorama template and fix the problem at the right low corner (see note). --Selbymay (talk) 16:59, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I too tempted to support considering the efforts and enthusiasm of The Photographer in his contributions. I would like to appreciate him for his positive response to any criticism and the willingness to learn from them. But I know this place is not for mere appreciation on Sympathy or Empathy; but my opinion should be more rational. Oppose We already has a very similar FP; I can’t see much additional value for the FP gallery this composite image provides. Further the quality is limited as the author stated above. JKadavoorJee05:55, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support as nominator. This is an excellent photo of an interesting subject. The light here is beautiful, with very good color and white balance, no burnt areas and good detail in the shadows. The sky has some nice detail and is not overblown. The composition moves nicely between the hill, the shadow and the castle, with only as much of the sky as needed for balance. There are even a couple of birds and a flag fluttering in the wind. There's no noticeable digital enhancement, and in my opinion it doesn't need any. -- -- Orionist ★ talk21:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. Very nice, but the chopped stone wall at the bottom of the picture bothers me. Is there another version that includes the entire wall? Otherwise, another option is to crop out the stone wall entirely. —Bruce1eetalk07:58, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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CommentThis source would give a slightly different edit with at least bigger file size but I think also slightly better quality, together with a less misleading preview of the image. --Julian H. (talk/files) 22:13, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per criteria: "Images should not use too strong compression." This image has had 97% of its bits compressed out of it. They sky is a storm of JPG blocks and any contrasting edges are surrounded by gnats. Can folk please critically review the NASA stuff before nominating them here -- don't assume they are high quality images. Really someone should have a word with NASA that their "Public domain" requirements means they should publish the actual photos they took, not this shit. Colin (talk) 09:01, 24 March 2013 (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: Severe JPEG artifacts.
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Need a review at 36MP? People use images for different purposes. Anyone can down-sample according to their needs. But the reverse is difficult. Further, the perfect size for sharp-enough is difficult to decide. JKadavoorJee08:36, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
"Need" not, but I think the photo could be definitely sharper. One can photograph very sharp photos even in fullsize with a D800, see this FP or this QI. IMHO it is not a sharpness-FP but the composition is very nice. --Tuxyso (talk) 11:09, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know which 35mm Moroder used. High res. cameras are very sensitive to many lenses. Lighting conditions may also a parameter here. JKadavoorJee14:03, 11 March 2013 (UTC)^[reply]
Info I used the 24-70 f/2.8G Nikon lens. BTHW I don't understand why I loose so many EXIF data converting NEF files to JPG with ViewNX2.
In the case I've shown here I used the 24mm T&S lens from Nikon. I've heard that the 24-70 has some field curvature ("Bildfeldwölbung") and may not be as optimal for landscape shot as for portrayal shots (but it is just speculation). --Tuxyso (talk) 11:04, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I guess a fix lens must be better anyhow but a zoom can be a good compromise. I believe the images indicated by Tuxyso cannot be compared with mine, since they are of two buildings, different subjects, different patterns patterns, with much less depth of field --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 15:17, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks for the reading but I don't find any relations to this peculiar nomination as Jebulon said. Maybe we'll have to wait for a new pope to close the discussion you mentioned (dead indeed), IMO not relevant here. :-) --Selbymay (talk) 07:24, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support There is no special "concern on set nominations", only a discussion. No reason to "freeze" promotions, set nominations are still acceptable. This nomination is valuable, and the quality deserves the FP status IMO.--Jebulon (talk) 21:11, 11 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No big concerns. But according to current status, two successful FP sets (with six pictures in a set) lead the contributor to Commons:Meet our photographers (not a big issue). Further the value of each picture in a set compared to a single FP is questionable. There are more little concerns too. (I prefer a single FP nomination of the most preferred one in this set showing others under "other versions" till the "issues" are resolved (per Alchemist-hp.) JKadavoorJee03:49, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment part of the unsharpness comes from chromatic aberration, so if that could be corrected in raw, it would also be sharp enough imo. What I don't like composition-wise is that the back has more space than the front. --Julian H. (talk/files) 10:25, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Rather low resolution vertically, for a panorama. The cut-off tree and blown sky on the RHS is distracting. In fact the whole RHS doesn't help the composition whereas the LHS makes decent scene round the lake. Also the green bus on the right has some stitching problems. -- Colin (talk) 18:33, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Sorry I don't understand your English. Vielleicht könntest du es mir auf Deutsch sagen. Ich sag dir, das Bild ist fotografisch excellent (Farbe, Schärfe auch, von mir aus die Komposition), aber die Perspektive ist absolut falsch und Perspektive ist nicht eine Meinung sondern eine Technik - In plain English: your image is from the point of view of the fotographic technique absolutely good and even the composition and subject are OK but from the point of view of the perspective, as a result of photomerging, it is absolutely wrong. Perspective is not an opinion, Sorry, I'm glad for you that you get so much support but I simply do not agree. --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 17:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I think it is a bit difficult to understand the subject from the current file description. According to no:Koi, "In large koi ponds, it is not unusual that "the kettle of fish" at feeding time." Interesting to me. JKadavoorJee15:39, 18 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info The cathedral of Peter and Paul in Peterhof, Saint Petersburg. Designed by Nikolay Sultanov, built in 1894-1905.
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Info A special thing of the Common Winter Damselfly is that both pair of wings lying on one side. Mostly on the sunny side. Here you can see it very good. Hockei (talk) 19:07, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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weak Support one of our best examples of food photography. weak support because the person standing behind is distracting (upper right corner).--ArildV (talk) 05:35, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Very nice in preview, but imho too soft in full resolution. Perhaps very small aperture caused diffraction effects. --Ivar (talk) 08:31, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Diagram of blood vessels—arteries, capillaries, and veins. Also shows cross sectional area differences (important in understanding why bloodflow velocity is different between different types of blood vessels). Editable text layer is invisible (opacity 0). It is aligned to 720 × 496 px grid.
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Question This isn't really a forest, though. There's no good size reference, but the grass at the bottom seems to make this more like ice brush or ice willows. Am I wrong? – Kerαunoςcopia◁galaxies08:27, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
La procession des saints de Bretagne is a set of eight wax frescoes painted between 1871 and 1876 by Alphonse Le Hénaff in the ambulatory of the choir of the cathedral Saint-Pierre in Rennes. See this picture for a general view.
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Sadly, this could not be any better : the frescos are in a place that receives no natural light, these harsh spotlights are the only lighting source. --EdouardHue (talk) 07:59, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Thanks for the nomination Tomer T. Here, we can see the two football teams which are lined up on either side of the line of scrimmage. The center of the offensive team (right) holds the ball before the snap . --PierreSelim (talk) 09:48, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very good, great focus. I know it's very difficult, but I wish we could see the whole hands of the two nearest players. --Kadellar (talk) 16:02, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Thanks The Photographer, I processed the image for clarity and contrast, very little, but that particular day, due to the haze and slight cloudyness the conditions were right for the pastel colors. The colors of the Grand Canyon change every day, and it is a matter of luck. As for filters, I do not use filters of any kind. Sometimes I will use neutral density, but I have even given up on polarizers also. Filters are of less optical quality glass than the glass of the lenses, so it is like shooting through a diirty window. I have good L Canon lenses, and I´ve done comparison shots to see the difference, and believe me, there is a big difference between filters vs no filters. Even the non L lenses perform much better without filters. Try it out. Adjust on the computer. The only thing is that you have to be more careful to protect the glass of the lens, which is a good thing anyway. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
First of all, thank you very much for your prompt response. Gradually I've been learning with comments in this section. I really like this composition and the sense of depth created by these branches. I've tried to always get the most natural colors, whenever possible. I will take your comments into consideration. --The Photographer (talk) 23:31, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral Not really convinced by the quality (sharpness, level of details) and composition. We have better examples of urban landscape at night--ArildV (talk) 09:52, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the lights are oversaturated and look comical while zooming in doesn't yield the fine-grained detail I expect from night shots. —Mono20:57, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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to "opposers": you know, the cameras, used in Apollo mission, were mounted on the chest of the austronauts (like this). They had NO viewfinder and only one button -- shutter release. The rest was automatic, because an astronaut is very limited in motion by the space suit; giant gloves, inflated with air from inside are a big problem for hands. Taking a photo in such conditions is not a simple task. You should not compare this photo to some shots of, say, sunsets, taken on the beach with digital camera at leisure time. This image is 40 years old, however of brilliant technical quality. Maybe it lacks in composition, but it depicts unique moment. --Ximeg (talk) 10:20, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose for very limited wow imo. The resolution is also not great (but ok), there are some CAs, but my main problem is that this is a good QI but not impressive. --Julian H. (talk/files) 11:13, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info View of the Chapel of St. Ottilie in Oberfallenberg Dornbirn, the Rhine Valley, the mountains of the Swiss Alviers, Alpstein over Appenzellerland down to Lake Constance.
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Comment There should have been, as a maximum, a VERY little CA left. I've tried to reduce the rest, going to upload the edited version now. --A.Savin17:11, 26 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Definitely a good image, but the lighting conditions didn't favored the outcome. It is too dark do give this waterfall enough wow. Kruusamägi (talk) 11:35, 30 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Info created & uploaded by Taxiarchos228 - nominated by Tomer T (talk) 17:44, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Support -- Tomer T (talk) 17:44, 19 February 2013 (UTC)_and_911_(rear).jpg)
Comment There is some mist in the air, which makes the picture appear a bit dull. While this is perfectly normal for aerial photographs, it is not too hard to remove that. --El Grafo (talk) 13:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Oppose -- Interesting but not exceptional. The colours are washed out and the backgroung is a bit distracting. Alvesgaspar (talk) 14:26, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
Abstain . --El Grafo (talk) 09:26, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Done Thank Biopics --The Photographer (talk) 18:38, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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Neutral nice image of a little girl, but this is not a typical pose of a child in this age, it more a a typical adult model pose, IMHO, so the image give me a strange impression --Slick (talk) 20:43, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Question Any reason for such a minimum resolution. Although it is good to encourage free gifts to Commons, it is not worth to encourage bare minimum pixel contributions. JKadavoor Jee 06:43, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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Keep The original is higher quality (less compression and indicated colour space). The source of the newer images is highly compressed so low quality, is missing the colour space tag and has been simply enlarged 1.7x (not 2.89 times) without any extra detail. The new images should be deleted as inferior copies. Colin (talk) 19:10, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
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Request Reviewers, please see this too and vote accordingly. JKadavoor Jee 05:43, 28 February 2013 (UTC)![Ahura Mazda (right, with high crown) presents Ardashir I (left) with the ring of kingship. (Naqsh-e Rustam, 3rd c. CE) [2.40 . 6.45] m](/wiki/File:Naqsh_i_Rustam._Investiture_d%27Ardashir_2.JPG)
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Weak support Sharpening artifacts but very nice (and useful!) image. Jacopo Werther iγ∂ψ=mψ 00:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
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