BeBo86

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 11:43, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Forum romanum 6k (5760x2097).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --JDP90 17:53, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Forum romanum 6k (5760x2097).jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Forum romanum 6k (5760x2097).jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 06:02, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

If 1000€ equipment is not enough...

Hi BeBo86,

I read this comment of your on the FPC page, and thought I would like to make a little longer comment on that. It can be pretty discouraging to have an image declined when you have actually decent equipment and have taken a pretty good photo, and you might ask yourself, is this a closed club for users with only high-end gear?

It isn't, but sometimes you just have to work a little harder for it. I guess my gear, at least when using my far from optimal 18-55 mm kit lens, is pretty much comparable to yours when it comes to performance and price (I gave less than 1000€ though), and I too find it challenging to produce FP quality pictures for the kind of subject you nominated with a wide angle of view and many details in a single frame. It is possible though, and the way to go for these kinds of shots, if you want to improve your chances is to take several overlapping photos of the same scene using a tripod and a fixed vantage point at a higher zoom level, and then combine them by stitching them together using software like Hugin (free) or PTGui (a commercial variant with more options for HDR and using raw images as input).

There is a bit of learning involved, and it is a bit tedious, and afterwards you need to crop, etc., but you can get wastly better results. Just by using 2x2 images helps a lot, and such a case is not so hard to handle. See here for a recent 2x2 example, where the technical quality is significantly better than shooting the same subject using just a single frame with that crap lens.

Actually, you can get through the FP process using just a compact camera, like, e.g., this FP, which is stitched from 22 photos using a compact camera from 2007 (and add to that editing help from friends). Sometimes, if you are lucky with a not overly complicated subject, a single shot FP with a compact camera is possible, if the wow mitigates the quality issues.

So, just continue and improve, learn how to best utilize your equipment and more FPs will come with hard work . --Slaunger (talk) 17:25, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Overwriting files

Hi BeBo86,

I noticed you have uploaded a different photo taken at at another time and another crop as a new version of the same file. This is generally frowned upon, especilly when the image is in the middle of a nomination process, as it means that previous reviewers have evaluated a completely different photo, then the one present now. I am very sure you did not know about this and did it in good faith, so consider this just as a heads up. We have a policy for overwriting files, Commons:Overwriting existing files, which you may want to have a look at. Take care, --Slaunger (talk) 15:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

• @Slaunger: thanks for your comments! Actually I don't even know if this is the correct way to answer you :-) sorry! What would you recommend I should do now? Is the voting process invalid now??? Should I withdraw an nominate again? Thanks in advance!
  • This is an excellent way to reply. On my talk page I have a little notice saying that I prefer to keep communication on a single page, and I will always be watching pages I write on. Moreover, since you use the {{Ping}} template, I am also being notified that way, so you are replying as well as one could possibly ask for.
  • I would recommend uploading the original version over your altered version to restore it and let your current nomination run its course with that, or withdraw that nomination by adding a {{Withdraw}} template to the existing nomination page in case you think it has little chance of promotion.
  • Meanwhile upload your new photo under a new file name. Now you currently have two active nominations at FPC and that is the maximum allowed. You can then nominate your new photo, once one of the other ones has been closed by the end of the nominal voting period or if you withdraw, you can of course also nominate another one.
  • If you have any other question, just ask on my talk page and I will try to help as well as I can (or direct you to someone who can help you). It can be very confusing at first on Commons to figure out how things work and how to do things right. Best wishes from Denmark, --Slaunger (talk) 16:23, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
    • @Slaunger: Again, thanks for your help! I will think about it. BTW: what do you think of the new version? BeBo86 (talk) 16:32, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
      • Please do not think too long about complying with Commons policies after a friendly reminder:) There is really not so much to think about, except complying:) Regarding the new photo, I have now had the time to look at at it. I think it is significantly better when it comes to the technical quality and the light of the main subject including the houses close to the littoral waters. The left-hand side and top crops are better and leave the main subject with more room to 'breathe'. Two minor things less fortunate in my opinion. Fist of all, I think the right-hand side crop is too close to the curving fence at the right-hand side of the nice curved road. Secondly, I am not too happy about the foreground rather prominent shadows. What I would vote: I do not know yet, but it will be close:) Take care, --Slaunger (talk) 21:02, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Notification about possible deletion

Some contents have been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether they should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at their entry. If you created these pages, please note that the fact that they have been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with them, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

Affected:

• File:Seebühne Bregenz Turandot 2015.jpg

Yours sincerely, Dereckson (talk) 20:46, 10 September 2015 (UTC)