Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:The Montreal Observation Wheel.jpg

File:The Montreal Observation Wheel.jpg, not featured

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Info created & uploaded by Maksimsokolov - nominated by Tomer T -- Tomer T (talk) 12:03, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Tomer T (talk) 12:03, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Could be a bit brighter. Though I am quite surprised that f/2.8 on full frame could be so sharp corner to corner... -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 16:05, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice composition and obvious wow-factor but I feel like the colours are way too saturated to be honest, it looks a bit garish. Cmao20 (talk) 20:06, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Overprocessed, per Cmao20. Saturation and contrast. -- Colin (talk) 20:19, 16 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Hm, well, indeed. But IMHO this photo is too nice. Maksim, could you have a look? --Aristeas (talk) 08:32, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The colors could be toned down a bit, but they don't bother me as much as the very busy composition. Feels like it would make a good postcard, but not an FP. Daniel Case (talk) 18:25, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Verticals leaning in (background, both sides). And please turn the contrast/saturation slider a few light years to the left, yes. --Kreuz schnabel 19:18, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Sorry for the delay. I have asked Maksimsokolov about this photo on his talk page and (in short) he does not want to change this photo because “it contains the mood of Montreal I felt that day”. IMHO this is a perfectly valid point of view. First, we can see on other photos (e.g. on this POTY 2020 finalist ;–) how colourful autumn actually can be in that province of Canada. Second, we know at least since the discussions about the subjective photography movement by Otto Steinert et all. that photography can be seen as expression of the artist’s mood, impressions and ideas (and not as a mere reflection of reality). The unfortunate point is that in this case the result has by chance some similarity with a postcard; this may explain why Steinert et all. had most success with rather abstract and unconventional subjects). And, of course, this is not the kind of photography we are used to here on the FPC page ;–). The style followed by most of us, including me, has more similarity with the Neue Sachlichkeit (normally insufficiently translated with “New Objectivity”; but Sachlichkeit means also simplicity, rationality, functionality, sense of realism, matter-of-factness). --Aristeas (talk) 08:50, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support due to my reasoning above. --Aristeas (talk) 08:50, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oversaturated and excessive contrasts -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:23, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Mile (talk) 14:47, 25 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]