Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Schloss Gluecksburg msu 2018 -7111.jpg

File:Schloss Gluecksburg msu 2018 -7111.jpg, featured

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Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles_and_fortifications#Germany
Info created by Matthias Süßen - uploaded by Matthias Süßen - nominated by Matthias Süßen -- Matthias Süßen (talk) 13:13, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Matthias Süßen (talk) 13:13, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Cool use of natural framing, I like that! There's some purple fringing going on in the corners - shouldn't be too difficult to get rid of that in Lightroom? Also, I think this kind of picture should really be Geocoded. --El Grafo (talk) 13:29, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Compo and lighting are excellent! ~~CA is only a minor problem, imo - a "leaves against sky" situation is always prone to produce some CA.~~ --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 13:51, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- PS: The new version got rid of the CAs... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 14:01, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ralf Roleček 14:14, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment@El Grafo: : thanks for the hints. I added geocordinates to the file and removed the purple. --Matthias Süßen (talk) 14:30, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely composition. :) --Peulle (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Love the framing. Charles (talk) 15:26, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 15:49, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 16:05, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lovely pic -- Colin (talk) 16:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- P999 (talk) 16:50, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support as per others, very nice Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 17:21, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support One of the few times I've seen it work to have some foliage between you and the subject. --Cart (talk) 17:23, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per others. Lovely. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:30, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice view, but the castle is unfortunately overexposed --A.Savin 00:46, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support thanks the improvements! --El Grafo (talk) 05:16, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Code (talk) 07:05, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ermell (talk) 12:43, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- George Chernilevsky ^talk 14:56, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice composition --Michielverbeek (talk) 22:43, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Daniel Case (talk) 06:47, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agree though that the highlights could be reduced a bit Poc o² 07:16, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Comment @A.Savin and Poco a poco: Hmm. Please pardon the asking. I don't come here that often. How am I supposed to handle this? Those of you who have rated the picture as Pro have rated this version. And in that one the highlights have already been lowered. In this version I have additionally reduced the white tones. Personally, however, I prefer the version we are voting on here. --Matthias Süßen (talk) 08:48, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Matthias I'm not sure whether your "how am I supposed to handle this" was about handling the oppose votes, or handling the highlights. For the former, you can't always please everybody! Don't worry, your image looks certain to be promoted, though the presence of the one oppose means it won't be fast-track promoted after just 5 days, but will take the normal time. That's fine; don't worry about it. It is your image, your work of art, so don't feel pressured to make an image you don't like just to please one reviewer -- you might end up with something that other people don't like instead. Personally, I think we can sometimes be a bit too obsessed with avoiding blown or bright highlights, when they are quite natural. I'd expect a freshly painted white wall in full sun to be so bright white that I need sunglasses to comfortably look at it. Today's monitors don't have HDR retina-burning displays yet so all results will be a compromise. I strongly dislike when people reduce such glowing bright white to merely paper white. Comparing your two versions, I can see the other version's whites are off-white now, but there's no more detail recovered. So I agree with you that the nominated image is better. -- Colin (talk) 10:41, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Colin: Thanks for the tips. That's what I'm going to do. --Matthias Süßen (talk) 11:51, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    - My opinion here, Matthias, is that you do what you thing is right. If you believe that a reviewer is right and you got a hint about how to improve the quality or composition of the picture, don't be afraid, and go aead. Important is that we help each other and the picture and photographers get better. The fact that the image will obviously be promoted to FP shouldn't be a reason not to improve it, if you think that a change would do. Only authors and reviewers here care about that star. Small improvemetns are always welcome any time. If you perform though bigger changes (like a new frame or major retouch of curves, contrast, lighting, etc.) then you should ping those who already voted (to let them review again) or offer an alterntive version. But IMHO that wouldn't be required in this case. Poc o² 20:52, 13 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:44, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent! --Ximonic (talk) 11:09, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Wolf im Wald 12:39, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 16:13, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support J e e 01:57, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Llez (talk) 10:34, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Excellent. --Podzemnik (talk) 16:55, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --XRay ^talk 06:01, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 27 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--A.Savin 13:20, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Castles_and_fortifications