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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
- All by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:59, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Support -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:59, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Request Please add a category above. Thanks, Yann (talk) 18:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)- Support After a little hesitation. I like the composition, high educational value and it is decent quality. I like that you are close to the object, but at the same time get a decent composition.--ArildV (talk) 18:18, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- Support agree with ArildV, picture composition less than great but subject matter seems important and other aspects of picture seem good to me (support added by Davefoc (talk | contribs))
- Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:52, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Oppose after the third time of contemplation. --Hubertl (talk) 06:06, 13 May 2015 (UTC)- Oppose Interesting subject, but not good enough: overexposed sky, bad crop at left and right. Sorry. Yann (talk) 08:30, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
Comment I am ok with a No Wow oppose, or a plain don´t like it, or it doesn´t tickle me, for there is no arguing against that. An oppose on technical issues or realities, however, does merit a response, for it leads to better understanding of the medium.
- One has to “read” the photograph in order to determine many things. So let me start with the “sky is over exposed.” Well, it is not over exposed. It is hazy. That in itself will give the appearance of overexposure when in fact it is not.
- How do I know? Well I was there, but even if I had not been there, I could still tell it was a hazy day. How? By looking at evidence in the rest of the photograph. This is a sun lit scene, outdoors, and I can see the type of shadows cast (look at the arm of the front person) I can see the sun lit skin and the skin in the shadow, side by side. With strong sunlight, the differential would be 4 stops exposure, rendering the shadow areas much darker.
- So, with an overcast day, the dynamic range in the scene is reduced, meaning, that there is less contrast, and the light differential is reduced, making it better overall to this particular scene.
- In addition to dynamic range, which is the capacity of film or sensor to register the luminosity of a scene, from light to dark, in the manner of tonal differences (see Zone System photography) there is also what is called “texture range” which is when one can distinguish the texture of the surfaces, and this range is shorter than the dynamic range.
- This is important in determining the quality of the exposure. A good exposure ideally would encompass detail (texture), if present, in high key areas (highlights, but not specular reflexions, and dark areas, toward the low luminosity of the scale). In here, we have a great texture range, from texture detail in low value areas, like the dark burlap of the people, to the detail in the white clothes of the roman guard. This speaks of very good exposure indeed, for a sunlight scene that can capture the texture range from light value sunlit items to dark areas in the shadows. A double whammy.
- So, I buy, or accept a “no wow” oppose because taste is subjective and culturally influenced, but I do refute a bad exposure oppose because in this particular case is just not the case.
- As far as the crop, no arguing against taste or preferences, but II will explain my crop. I cropped it this way to concentrate on the elements at hand, the men in burlap clothes and the people and statues on the platform, leaving out distracting elements, but retaining the essential elements. Again, this is a judgement call. This crop left out unwanted or distracting element, such as the crowd with zillion different clothes that clash with the simple costumes, umbrellas, hats, etc. I object much more to other details, like the watches, but things are the way they are…
- On the subjective side of the image, the cultural elements, the knowledge of the context s what can make this picture interesting. But if someone cannot distinguish the cultural variables, I can see that that this image is not something that I would hang on my wall, heck, I won´t hang it on my wall. The intention of this photograph is to register a cultural event or manifestation of a cultural element. This is, after all, an encyclopedic endeavor.
--Tomascastelazo (talk) 17:16, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
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