Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Aialik glacier pano.jpg

Voting period ends on 4 Aug 2009 at 19:08:38

Info Aialik, the largest tidewater glacier in Kenai Fjords National Park. All by ianaré (talk) 19:08, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- ianaré (talk) 19:08, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support The quality! Unbelievable. -- JovanCormac (talk) 19:33, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Böhringer (talk) 20:26, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support great, --Alchemist-hp (talk) 22:23, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Please fill in the date field on the file page. Is it a stitch? If so, please add some details about how on the image page. You could add a heading to your location, that would make a cool (no pun intended) pointer towards the glacier. Last but not least. I've tried making such images of glaciers in North-West Greenland. I found it quite hard to do in good quality (I never uploaded any images, because I was not satisfied with the result), and I must say the technical quality and detail level of the ice in the glacier is impressive. --Slaunger (talk) 22:50, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the kind words ! I added the date info. The image is a composite of 5 vertical exposures. Hardest part was keeping the movement of the boat manageable (as with almost all my pics, a tripod was not used). I don't know how to add direction info, can you advise ? --ianaré (talk) 06:23, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added the heading, you can see in the dif how it is done (note, it takes a while for the toolserver to get updated). And yes, I am familiar with the challenge of stitching hand held exposures from a drifting boat. --Slaunger (talk) 19:10, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Ernie (talk) 11:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment – I guess the third description language is not English. --Ernie (talk) 11:53, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Done --Ernie (talk) 21:56, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support ■ MMXX^talk 18:12, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 09:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - beautiful and valuable. Downtowngal (talk) 23:57, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support —kallerna™ 10:06, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
~~Support~~ I have now had time to carefully inspect the image, and it is very good. The only observations I had were some minor, peculiar looking patches in the ocean surface at the lower edge of the photo, which looks a little artificial, as if Hugin had some stitching problems there (it is not easy to stitch sea, because it has changed from one image to the other), and/or as if noise reduction has been appllied a little too agressively on the icean surface. --Slaunger (talk) 10:23, 30 July 2009 (UTC) Moved my support to the marginally better edit. --Slaunger (talk) 21:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've made an alternate version (see below) which fixes some of these problems. --ianaré (talk) 10:49, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I withdraw my nomination above version only, in favor of alternate version below. --ianaré (talk) 02:02, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Alternate version, featured

Info fixes some blending and stitching problems in first version.
Support -- ianaré 10:52, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marginally better than the very good original :-) --Slaunger (talk) 21:20, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Downtowngal (talk) 01:52, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support —kallerna™ 11:05, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Chrumps (talk) 20:14, 3 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support, Tintero (talk) 19:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- JMCC1 (talk) 23:11, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Yann (talk) 19:59, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]