Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia 2.jpg

File:Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia 2.jpg, featured edit

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Info created & uploaded by Noodle snacks - nominated by JovanCormac
Info An opal. This is so very beautiful. Already featured on EN. -- JovanCormac
Support As nominator. -- JovanCormac 11:58, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yann (talk) 12:03, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Airwolf (talk) 13:05, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Very nice. The only thing that bothers me is that the backgrounds shows some very faint artifacts from retouching (e.g. on the right side and upper right corner). They become more apparent when you decrease the brightness and increase contrast (look here), but even without this they are very faintly visible on my screen. This should be easy to fix. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 13:59, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree, that's not optimal. Could you fix it? I don't know how to. -- JovanCormac 15:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'm not good at that either, but I made a request at the "Fotowerkstatt" of the german wikipedia. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 15:40, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - Why didn't you request it at our very own Graphic Lab? ■ MMXX^talk 18:23, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - Artifacts right and bottom are from the focus stack. Not really visible to me in the original though. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:58, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        I gave it a try with my poor retouching skills: File:Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia 2 retouched.jpg. Basically I fixed the major artifacts and removed the yellowish colour from the background. ~~Unfortunately there's a little spot on the stone itself where the colour accidentally was removed too. I will reupload as soon as It's possible.~~ --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 16:35, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Done. I also removed the grey line from the top border of the image. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 20:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Since your version is obviously better, I think you should replace the candidate file with it. There's no need to keep separate files when clear improvements are made. -- JovanCormac 19:22, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Good idea, done. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 05:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support great pict! --Luc Viatour (talk) 15:28, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Being a Queenslander myself, it would be a sin not support this. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 15:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mbz1 (talk) 20:08, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support --DPC (talk) 22:25, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Sorry, but IMHO the upper part of the stone is too bright/overexposed. All those lovely colours you see in the lower part are not visible any more. I think a different light or an enblend of exposures would have made it much better. -- H005 13:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - very nice.--Avala (talk) 15:37, 21 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Mbz1 (talk) 02:43, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects