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File:Veil of Snow - Sgwd yr Eira.jpeg, featured

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Fifty foot waterfall in Brecon Beacons, Wales.

Info all by Saffron Blaze (talk) 06:15, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Somehow eye-catching and technically well done. --Tuxyso (talk) 08:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Time-lapse can feel like I'm being manipulated if it's overdone. It's definitely not here. Nice. :) —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 09:05, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support ♫♫ Leitoxx ♪♪ 12:45, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Nice, still I think that it is overall a bit underexposed. It would be also great to add some more categories. Poc o² 15:38, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 17:09, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Added more precise cats. Saffron Blaze (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Michael Barera (talk) 01:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
weak Support maybe a bit underexposed --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:06, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --JLPC (talk) 12:48, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Christian Ferrer (talk) 14:56, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support I feel I'm in my home. J e e 15:51, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --AmaryllisGardener (talk) 16:57, 30 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --ArildV (talk) 17:29, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Baresi franco (talk) 21:05, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Alex Florstein (talk) 18:21, 1 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice composition and colours --mathias K 04:30, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Too much contrast (generally dark but with clipped highlights). — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 08:16, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- It's very difficult to preserve the highlights in long exposures of waterfalls without underexposing the rest of the scene. It's not about contrast, it's about the camera having limited abilities to capture the full dynamic range of the scene. Diliff (talk) 20:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  - I'll think about it, but underexposing to preserve highlights should really not be a problem. Brightening in post is always possible, or reducing contrast. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 21:04, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Julian H., your critique is not without merit. I noticed the two areas of clipped whites, but thought they were small enough to be ignored. I should have used some layers to recover those highlights as the RAW has the DR to deal with this. I will see about fixing it when I have some time. Thanks Saffron Blaze (talk) 21:10, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Brightening in post is 'always possible to do', but underexposing and brightening in post is not always a realistic proposition to solve the issues of blown highlights. If you've underexposed too much, you start running out of usable tonal range and the shadow detail looks poor. But if as Saffron Blaze says, there is still highlight detail in the RAW image then perhaps it can be fixed. Diliff (talk) 13:19, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Very nicely composed and photographed. Diliff (talk) 20:12, 3 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --P e z i (talk) 21:18, 6 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 08:58, 7 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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