Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Cantina Hussong in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.jpg
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- Info All by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:36, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:36, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oh yes! So a late night indoors grainy photo, but who cares! Guys, this is art. The crowd in the photo emulates the painting in the background and it brings to mind all those murals in Los Angeles of celebrities like [1] or even paintings in the style of Nighthawks. I just love it! I also see that Ensenada is still as swinging as when I was there back in the 70s. :) --Cart (talk) 18:28, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support absolutely per Cart --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 18:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Ezarateesteban 00:37, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support --The NMI User (talk) 03:47, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose Technically the lens is not adapted, and artistically the photographer is intrusive. This telephoto zoom lens is not made for interior shots. At f/4, the image is blurry because 1/40s handheld is too long. Canon sells fixed focal lenses specially designed for this kind of photography, like the 50mm f/1.4 for example, providing much better results with less noise and more sharpness in the same lighting conditions. Here the people are moving and the lady wearing glasses is really ghostly. The photographer is highly visible in the mirror and drawing attention of two other people in the foreground, becomes distracting. Not everybody care, but at least the lady in black and the bearded man seem to wonder "What's happening here with a camera ? Does one want my face in picture ? -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:54, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Comment I don't think the photographer is distracting here. He's well hidden behind his camera so you can't see his eyes or face, in this photo he's a nobody. Yes, people are aware they are being photographed, could probably have said something if they were uncomfortable about it and we would not see this photo here. It's not like the photographer is skulking with his mobile in a sly way. If you dress up for a night out today, you are aware that there are cameras everywhere. I also think that the wow and artistry overcomes all technical nitpicking here. It's an impressionist photo. For some strange reason we even create blurs of water or panning blur, but anything else moving is intolerable. --Cart (talk) 10:39, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- The main subject of this photograph is the photographer. All the action is centered here, around this camera. "What's this photographer doing ?" is the main question coming before we understand there's a mirror behind. So "not distracting" and "well hidden" couldn't be more wrong, IMO.The fact that there are cameras everywhere today is absolutely not relevant to justify the intrusion here, and I wish these cameras can take better pictures . 6400 ISO is far too noisy, and in the context the level of blurriness suggests a drunk operator -- Basile Morin (talk) 11:38, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Please do not make assumptions about the state of the operator/photographer, keep it factual without personal attacks. You should know the rules better by now. --Cart (talk) 12:14, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Yes I think this is an obvious feeling you normally have when you see a photographer taking part of the party and shooting among so many bottles. I'm not saying this is the reality and I don't "attack" anyone. I specified "in the context", since here the technical problem of this lens opening at f/4, creating noise & blur, gives this feeling. Even if the operator has only drunk water, that's the natural thought coming in mind unfortunately -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:33, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- You have a very active and vivid imagination, it makes for great photos but it can sometimes be less good when put into text on this forum. --Cart (talk) 13:02, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Not sure this is my imagination to suppose the photographer came here to get a drink. But that can be discussed -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:14, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose Doesn't work for me. Basile putting into words my thoughts better than I ever can. -- KTC (talk) 11:43, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support Reducing this image to its technical shortcomings doesn't do it justice. Unlike most static architecture or landscape shots this scene can't be easily re-created. While most images that make it to FP are of outstanding technical quality, very few of them tell a story. And I think that's an achievement of its own right. At first I was opposed to the idea of the photographer being part of the image. On second thought Tomas' incidental self portrait helps the viewer to understand that the scence was taken against a mirror. I'd also like to point out that I wholeheartedly disagree with Basile's unnecessary personal attack. This kind of behaviour is unfitting of a frequent contributor to COM:FPC. Regards, Christoph Braun (talk) 13:08, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- If you don't understand the idea I explain, it's not complicated. Imagine a picture from a boat with the horizon tilted. What do you guess ? The photographer is sick or the boat induces this tilt ? The second solution probably. So that's the same here, except that the problem is created by the equipment -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:23, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose I'm not really wowed by the scene, I'm afraid. The left crop bothers me, as does the sharp light at the top.--Peulle (talk) 14:45, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose per others, although I give Cart a lot of credit for her vigorous defense of the image. Daniel Case (talk) 19:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support like a movie still --Neptuul (talk) 22:31, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose The idea is good, but I don't think the execution is at the FP level: the colors are off, the left crop is too short (painting and woman cut), the flare is disturbing, etc. Regards, Yann (talk) 18:43, 19 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support I like the look of people in this photo, I find it quite artistic. Gnosis (talk) 18:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Karelj (talk) 09:32, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
- Oppose per others - Ryan Hodnett (talk) 23:09, 25 August 2018 (UTC)
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