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I expect that opinions will vary about the grass and the crop: I like the texture of the grass in the shadow as opposed to more sky, which captures the sense of place better than a sky-heavy crop, but I understand the objection. A tripod would have been nice, but the light (a bit dim at that early hour) was too good to pass up. Acroterion (talk) 01:40, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support as an urban shot... --Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:21, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Comment The lawn is almost fully in shadow. --Tremonist (talk) 13:46, 12 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support --Hubertl (talk) 05:59, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Oppose It looks over-enhancement for me. --Laitche (talk) 17:42, 13 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •   Support Albertus teolog (talk) 12:11, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak   Oppose Mostly per KoH. The composition is nice but the elements in it are not spectacular and the quality (see e.g. the skyscraper on the right) is not exceptional. I would have probably cropped the left part also, since the building at the bottom is in shadow and covers the, maybe more interesting, red one. The shadow at the bottom is to predominating and there is no eye-catching element here. Probably I'd try it again at a different time and looking for a different composition. Looking around I liked this one (frontal view showing the nice square in front of it). Sorry, but this version is IMHO not one of our finest Poco2 18:48, 15 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    As I noted to KoH, the composition is a deliberate choice to emphasize the sense of place and time of day: a building that faces northeast (and therefore is only directly illuminated by early morning light) at the bottom of a steep grassy hill about 30m below and about 100m to the south of the Virginia Capitol. The alternate image suggested by Poco shows the modern plaza directly in front of the Capitol: it has nothing to do with the courthouse. This alternate image was shot slightly later with the same light, from the bottom of the hill;. At the time the image was shot I was struck by the contrast between the brightly but obliquely illuminated courthouse and the shadowed but textured grass. That choice may not appeal to all, as I understand, and as the comments reflect: the picture is somewhat different from what is usually seen and promoted here. The image was edited to bring up the shadows a little bit and contrast reduced, sharpened (perhaps overly, as KoH suggests) and enhanced a little, principally for the sky. The actual grass is a vivid green, as befits a lawn in front of Jefferson's Capitol. Acroterion (talk) 14:51, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Just wondering, what radius are you using for sharpening (I assume you used Photoshop)? --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 23:13, 16 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
1.1px is what I usually use. Acroterion (talk) 00:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
No noise processing was applied beyond the preset in PS RAW files (not needed with a 6D at ISO 100), and enhancement was minimal - a little vibrance and midtone contrast, the grass in the shadow brought up so the texture was visible): the colors and contrast at that sun angle were sufficient. I generally remove EXIF data because I dislike having equipment serials published, though I may give up on that as pointless: it's a Canon 6d, ISO 100, f10, 1/200 at 28mm. Acroterion (talk) 00:42, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Acroterion Removing too much EXIF data makes it an invalid JPG. A colourspace tag, and much preferably also a color profile, is required by our image guidelines for FP. Without it, the browser or image viewer then has to make guesses and browsers are really dumb: they assume the colour RGB values in the JPG are the same as the RGB values for your monitor. Many LCD monitors differ considerably from sRGB (most consumer monitors, especially on laptops, display only a meager portion of this colorspace) and high-quality professional monitors tend to be much wider-gamut than sRGB. If you use Lightroom, then look at Jeffrey’s "Metadata Wrangler" Lightroom Plugin] to control what gets published when you export. -- Colin (talk) 07:56, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 4 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:24, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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