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If you mind some other opinion... How about simply some other wildlife animals ? It seems to me you could share us some pretty good stuffs - Benh (talk) 22:32, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Since we're playing puppeteer... Personally I want you to keep providing us with awesome bird photos. In fact, I've put your lens on my wish list and am hoping I can oneday do a similar job in Australia (as JJH is already doing). --99of9 (talk) 12:46, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Can you denoise the background without affecting the sharpness of the bird? (I will finally learn to decrease ISO when enough light is present!) --Cephas (talk) 21:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, to get the annotation here try this. Edit the page as usual, press view (at the top of the page), press an "Add a note" button that appears under the image and then annotate it.--Snaevar (talk) 12:59, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose For me the yellowish color on the crane, the captains deck and the tower above that is a no-no. Pictures outside of commons tell me that those places are supposed to be white (just as the nearest surroundings), but of course you may try to prove me wrong.--Snaevar (talk) 12:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You can compare colors on title "MAERSK RIESA" at backside - clearly white. I don't know why yellow color was used. Also this ship at first years after construction was blue, not typically black as some tankers. -- George Chernilevskytalk12:35, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Honestly... suboptimal lighting, noisy, without even talking about the background. One might argue that the superimposition of her figure and the flag is exactly what makes the picture... I believe otherwise. --MAURILBERT(discuter)02:35, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support . Info This skull (and the whole skeleton) of a Diceros bicornis (Black rhinoceros) was collected for the french National Museum for Natural History by the french naturalist Pierre Antoine Delalande during his travel in southern Africa, between 1818 & 1820-- Jebulon (talk) 00:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I bet the smile is an illusion, just as dolphins seem to smile all the time, witch is just one of nature´s illusions. However, it doesn't seem to matter, because the quality is good.--Snaevar (talk) 22:48, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I am surprised they let vote, a stranger who did not produce any photograph. I draw the attention of the community about your behavior strange. It will be very easy for a critic to your level to amaze and delight us with your production. If I'm writing here is that on your talk page you erase the criticism you are doing. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 15:32, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment You're right, one should talk about pictures, but nevertheless: FPC rules have changed. According to the new guidelines, only editors whose accounts have at least 10 days and 50 edits can vote. I can't see a single edit (picture), only opposing votes. I'd like to know, why someone can vote without fulfillig the criteria for voters. If I not have the right to vote by not having 50 edits, I think I have also not the right to oppose. --Llez (talk) 20:11, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, we are still using that rule, and actually it was 10-9 to get rid of it. The conseus was a heated discussion of what should have been a fairly simple conclusion and ended with one of the Commons administrators deciding the result.--Snaevar (talk) 15:29, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Perfect shot. Only "problem fossil?" is missing on the bottom of this shot, but that's nothing that can convince me not to vote for support :-) --Aktron (talk) 16:04, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I thought a lot before supporting, because I have to be consistent with what I said before ;) and the subject of this picture is definitely worth FP in my opinion. Execution (choice of point of view, masking) gives it justice. - Benh (talk) 22:17, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Imaginative artwork of having the sun in the image does not work for me. It looks like the brightness of the sun has caused some cusps of light probably due to internal reflections within the lens. The cusps are fascinating - is there a name for this phenomenon? I find the foreground is unbecoming. The resolution is good enough. Snowmanradio (talk) 14:01, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like how the Sun, its lens flare and the Statue of Liberty share the composition, even if the lens flare was an accident, though I would like the bit on the left cropped out since it isn't even symmetrical in any way. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 04:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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With this cut, the verticale 2/3 is reached, but I would make sure not to put the train dead center (horizontal) as it is with the crop. I'd push the crop to the left a bit. --Cephas (talk) 11:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Generally very good of an image from 1863 and a good image as well, but I am not exactly thrilled about the quality of the frame.--Snaevar (talk) 00:26, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I like the colors and their atmosphere, has the feeling of weird and mystical. The image is sharp, maybe a bit noisy (ISO 200 would be better), but that's still ok. I have a problem with the composition: At such symmetrical buildings with reflections the image should be centered what isn't the case here. I would crop ~12 pixels at the right and ~312 pixels at the top. Then I would support this very nice photo. --kaʁstnDisk/Cat21:14, 21 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Modified the exposure to make the palace brighter without clipping the highlights and applied some sharpening. Feedback is very appreciated. --Murdockcrc (talk) 15:29, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice improvement but I would still oppose. You're not helped by the lighting scheme itself, which is pretty basic. - Benh (talk) 22:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment What about those Pointing angle quotation marks in the lake, how did they get there? (I annotated one of them on the original for your convenience)--Snaevar (talk) 23:34, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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WeakOppose, per THFSW. His arguments are valuable for an oppose vote too... This is a very nice picture, which could win in a contest, but I do not know how to use it in projects. There are many other sites where to show this kind of (very good) images. Only my opinion.--Jebulon (talk) 11:15, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Remember that Commons is not only supporting Wikipedia. I imagine this could be used as a generic image in a Wikinews article like this or elsewhere. --ELEKHHT13:21, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for information. I'll try to remember, but I think I know well enough now what "Commons" is or is not ...;). I know too that this picture will be feature-d. In my opinion, only in my opinion, this (nice) image has no (or a very little) educationnal value and is not feature-able for this reason, sorry. --Jebulon (talk) 10:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Don't misunderstand me, I am very glad you give so much attention to educational value! Nevertheless I think there are multiple ways an image can be educational. In this case I imagine you refer to a lack of EV as the image does not show any details of the horse or the vegetation etc. But as a highly impressive image, it can help attract attention (i.e. readers) to an educational article, thus indirectly leading to an educational benefit. More directly, it shows the silhouette of a horse in an aesthetically pleasant way, which might make viewers want to learn more about it. -ELEKHHT21:11, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Je pense comme elekkh que tu as tendance à trop valoriser le côté encyclopédique d'une image alors qu'on est sur Commons, mais nous en avons déjà suffisamment discuté... À la rigueur, il faudrait penser à faire l'équivalent du FPC sur le Wiki français (seul grand wiki sans !!) - Benh (talk) 13:05, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Je pense comme Archaeodontosaurus (et d'autres) que tu as tendance à trop valoriser le côté "concours de beauté" dans FPC alors qu'on est sur "Commons". Il y a beaucoup d'autres sites, et des meilleurs, pour montrer et juger de "belles images", alors que "Commons" est unique. Nous ne nous accorderons pas sur ce point je le crains, et en effet nous en avons déjà discuté (suffisament ?). Je crains que ton interprétation de la pensée d'un autre ne soit pas tout à fait conforme à ce qu'il dit, en ce qu'il confère tout de même un aspect encyclopédique (ou éducatif, pour mieux traduire) à la beauté de l'image en question et tente de m'en convaincre. Je pense au contraire qu'il conviendrait de supprimer les FPC des wikipédias nationales (anglaise, turque, allemande essentiellement), qui n'apportent rien et ne font que créer de la confusion, d'autant que la tendance est à regrouper et à faire migrer tout les stocks sur "Commons". J'attache énormément de prix au côté international de "Commons". Je considère enfin que les discussions particulières et les interpellations ad hominem n'ont pas leur place sur cette page, surtout dans une langue qui n'est pas usuelle pour la majorité des utilisateurs. --Jebulon (talk) 17:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I've no issue with switching back to english. I remind you again part of the guidelines : "Remember, the goal of the Wikimedia Commons project is to provide a central repository for free images to be used by all Wikimedia projects, including possible future projects. This is not simply a repository for Wikipedia images, so images should not be judged here on their suitability for that project.". That's Elekhh's point. Another issue, unlike en:FPC, you can't weight your vote on Commons, no need for weak or strong vote. - Benh (talk) 09:30, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
After re-reading the guidelines (rule 7), I see that I was wrong (only) with this part of my sentence above: but I do not know how to use it in projects. It is not a valid reason to oppose, ok. I still think so, but please notice that it is not the main reason of my oppose. I maintain the rest. To me, this picture is suffering of a lack of educational value. Then I still oppose for that. It was a weak oppose because I used a contrario the same arguments used for a weak support by THFSW. Please notice that I didn't use the false/wrong template. This kind of trial sounds ridiculous. I never go to ENWP FPC (only one time, when they promoted my écorché), and I don't know what happens there regarding the vote process.--Jebulon (talk) 00:52, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Strong oppose For a scientific overview, all images should be to the same scale and have the same white balance! W.S.10:42, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Thank you very much for the critical comment! I know what you mean but a same scale is in a paper not really necessary! Normally scientific journals want to see under each picture a scale. If you want, I can make such a scale but to my mind those things disruptive the picture because my intention was only, to take a nice scientific photo that showed many details of a skull of a juv. crocodylus sp.. Thank you and many greetings H. Krisp (talk) 17:03, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, never mind then. I thought an alternative with a scale was being added. I see this is merely for demonstrative purposes, though IMO it was obvious to me that the images already weren't in the same scale. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 20:04, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Hi W.S., sorry that I upload the new version with no comment (see above) but my withdraw is correct: I think the picture isn´t good enough for a featured picture. Now I try it again in the category quality images (I found the category this evening :o)). Thank you very much and many greetings H. Krisp (talk) 19:48, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose At the hat and both ears is some pixelation. Also, since I am an European, I don´t really value a picture of an ex-president as much as the Americans would do.--Snaevar (talk) 12:21, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good portrait of a historically very important person. If this has no value, we should delete the rest of the images on commons. Nice quality, considering the circumstances. --Nikopol (talk) 14:14, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Sorry, a good subject, but I just can't support it. There is far to much noise, the picture is tilted, and the crop is not the best. However, I might change my vote if the tilt can be fixed. Sorry, --TheHighFinSpermWhale17:12, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Not sure for the tilt. Please consider the shoe in foreground. It looks almost perfectly horizontal. And the technicians are changing a wheel...--Jebulon (talk) 17:20, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Admittedly I'm being picky here, but I wouldn't have cropped this much on the bottom side. It really feels like missing some kind of "support" here,sSomething like this. But since this wasn't taken from front... - Benh (talk) 19:57, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The reflections are inevitable when you have sunny weather. But I can not see that the reflections on the gilded areas disturb the impression of the image. --Wladyslaw (talk) 11:56, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
They are to some extent, as long as you take from proper point of view and at the right time (This example from myself doesn't have that many reflections) - Benh (talk) 13:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
A bit of bad faith here... You are right for the underexposure; but really the point of view is more suitable to avoid reflection. I could work on that and brighten it up, I wouldn't have that large burnt out part. But I think I'll have a reshot at it someday instead, since my lens is now repaired. - Benh (talk) 16:31, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Like Benh pointed out this picture should be taken a different time of day, or even when there its more cloudy. Not every picture can be fixed in a computer to make it as an FP, you know.--Snaevar (talk) 22:12, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- A different angle would've caused shadow, therefore IMO the glint, especially that the entire top is gilded yet the glint is only over a fairly small part, is forgiveable.. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 10:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment -- I would crop it on the right, very slightly. Too much would make the image almost square. Please take a look at the background, which is full of jpeg artifacts. Maedin?... Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:01, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support -- Yes, there are (steep and narrow) paths now. In the past, however, people and goods would be transported in a basket. Neither the basket nor the ropes looked very solid, actually, when we were there (about 25 years ago). MartinD (talk) 10:35, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose No wow, composition, obvious harsh front flash lighting which mostly lit the center part and side effectively vignets the pic, and makes for a common shot. - Benh (talk)
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Comment Very nice and interesting, I like the perspective, the light and the angle of view. Lot of ethnological value. I'll support if you remove the strong CA over some hats (the strongest is on the first one).--Jebulon (talk) 00:44, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Jebulon, go to [[2]] and follow the instructions. I have CS4 that has that utility (camera raw). Simple to use, if you have questions, let me know (or Peter!!!) --Tomascastelazo (talk) 11:50, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I love the colours of the surrounding trees (whereas in the other the trees are bare), and I see from the en:wp FP nomination that it is from a scanned slide, which explains the closeup quality, and I have this bias against delisting FPs just because technology has moved on ... So I'll abstain :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 11:27, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delist Quality of the building is not up to par, especially at the crosses on the rooftops. The trees are adequate, though, and the sky is this picture best feature.--Snaevar (talk) 16:46, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Per WS. Composition doesn't work: ship obscuring central element of the landscape, 1:1 sky/water proportion, uninteresting foreground (bottom 1/3). --ELEKHHT21:38, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Since this is a boat ferry picture, I think there are two ways to get it featured. The first is to have a good DOF so the landscape is what makes the picture great. The second is to have near-perfect quality of the boat. Unfortunately, though, this picture does not have a good DOF or sharpness and a slightly too much overexposure (wrong time of day, IMO), that makes the white color look a little off. Additionally, of-course, every image should have a decent composition and here even the water trails of the boat are not fully on the photo. It´s a no for me.--Snaevar (talk) 12:13, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Info painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, digitized by Google Art Project - uploaded by DcoetzeeBot (bot of Dcoetzee) - nominated by Dcoetzee -- From en:Netherlandish_Proverbs: "Netherlandish Proverbs (also called The Blue Cloak or The Topsy Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder which depicts a land populated with literal renditions of Flemish proverbs of the day. [...] There are around 100 identifiable idioms in the scene". This particular digitization, from the Google Art Project, is not only higher resolution than our other copies of the same work (5649 × 4000 or 22.6 megapixels) but also has better colors and is sharper, allowing elements that were not discernable before to be identified (see e.g. this fish). It's used in 46 articles on 29 projects and currently has 44 extracted images depicting individual proverbs. Has a good artwork template with 10 translations of the title, albeit missing provenance and accession number. On the minus side, it could definitely use image notes and Google's title for the work (The Dutch Proverbs) appears to be their own invention (possible rename?). Dcoetzee (talk) 19:37, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I like it and will support, but there are some cloning or blending "fragments" (a whatever they are called) in the sky which look ugly in full resolution (see annotation). These "blotches" can become even more noticable in print. If you fix this, I will gladly change my vote. --Nikopol (talk) 13:59, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Friedrich Böhringer you surprise me. After several boring snowscapes, now an interesting FP-worthy panorama. There is still hope for FP. W.S.09:00, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Just one comment, maybe you should crop the street at the extreme right with the traffic lights. Or maybe not. W.S.09:01, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Info panoramic view over the „Ao Kuerk“ bay, Similan-Island, Thailand. Second try of this one, i've straightend the horizon and correct the projection. all by -- mathiasK14:24, 29 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose This already has 8 supports? Seriously?? I hope I'm missing something, but there are huge aesthetic problems here. Big greyed out patches that have ugly joins to the non-greyed out patches. I'll mark some of the boundaries to help your eyes. This could be a stitching problem, or an interaction between the spotlights and the mist, but it's ugly no matter what it is. 99of9 (talk) 09:16, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per reasons above. Looks like if the masking job were unfinished. + need of some perspective correction : th pole and th dome in background right are leaning to the left) --Jebulon (talk) 11:04, 24 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I can not see any spots derogating seriously this image. But I invite all reviewer to verify and make it better: all original RAW-images are downloadable here: ([4], [5], [6], [7], click at the green download-button after closing the pop-up-window) -- Wladyslaw (talk) 15:10, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Uploaded a cropped version, where the annotated areas are marked into the picture. Hopefully that will help you to see the "greyed out patches".--Snaevar (talk) 11:17, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Please read carefully: I did say, that the spots are not derogating the image and not that I did not see them. The area you have marked is the area the spotlight shines and reflects very strong. This are not errors but the natural circumstances. --Wladyslaw (talk) 11:50, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Don´t shoot the messanger. If you do wan´t to argue about the "greyed out patches" do so to eather Jeublon, 99of9, Ggia or WS. Personally, I have never said that those patches are an issue, and this picture is for demonstrative purposes only. My opinion has nothing to do with it.--Snaevar (talk) 13:14, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Info The originally uploaded picture has obviously been greatly modified, and not particularly well. I suspect that the whole background has been replaced - the perch looks square edged and manmade, what were the original surroundings?. Ok, we have no particular problem with edited images if it is well done, and disclosed, but here it is neither. For instance the tips of the tail feathers should be white and rounded, this bird has had them snipped off - I expect the original had a much lighter coloured background at this point, and in cutting out the bird from the background, they were lost with the background. On the original upload there are a couple of white specs in this area which were probably part of those feathers. There are editing artifacts all the way around the outline of the bird. (NB I am not complaining about the subsequent editing for the FP nomination) --Tony Wills (talk) 10:37, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Good quality and the tail feathers would only make me consider putting a weak support for this image, but it is a support none the less.--Snaevar (talk) 17:03, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Perhaps there was some fixup done just near the tail, but the rest of the photo is as shot. The feathers around the bill look very consistent with the background. Has anyone asked the photographer for comment? Tomfriedel (talk) 02:35, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I put an initial question on his talk page, no reply yet. Everything below the perch worries me, the background has a different texture (smooth) than above. No sign of the talons from the front toes appearing under the perch (what is that perch?). I think the photographer just cleaned up the image but wasn't aiming to submitt it to FP, if he would upload the original image we could maybe redo the edits. --Tony Wills (talk) 03:21, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't believe in delisting FP images that were up to the standard at the time (others disagree ;-), but in this case it is a recently promoted image that clearly failed what I thought was a standard here : edited images are fine so long as the editing is disclosed and not apparent (so I am not so much concerned with the quality of the photo, but the quality of the edits). --Tony Wills (talk) 21:52, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info Andreas has sent me an unedited version, the falcon is perched on top of a white sign, the white tail feather tips are very difficult to see against that background but I think that we can retrieve them, the talons on the front toes are hidden by the sign. I haven't yet seen the camera original file, so am not sure yet whether we can get a less compressed version (with fewer JPEG compression artifacts). --Tony Wills (talk) 20:02, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info Andreas sent me the original and I have re-edited it to include the tail tips and eliminate the visible jpeg artifacts. I have adjusted levels slightly, but haven't increased saturation or adjusted the colours. The original background was fairly noisy, so I have smoothed that out with a gausian-blurr. Others may be able to do a better job, so I have uploaded a jpeg of the original too. (PS I love the sign in the original, it is as though the Kestrel is guarding the area, and directing you to read the sign :-)
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Oppose I'm not the greatest fan of images whith to much text on them. If I liked to read about the vaccine, I'd visit Wiki article about it. Masur (talk) 07:36, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Very illustrative and useful, but I think assigning the text to the steps should still be a bit easier. It could for example be done by reluctant color coding or by moving the text closer to the corresponding steps. Will support if you find a way to improve this. --Nikopol (talk) 14:45, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- They're right, steps could be assigned and numbered and the explanations could be translated on each specific language Wiki. Still I like the image. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 02:56, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Masur and Nikopol. Looks to me like an illustrated text, not really like a "picture". Does a multilingual version should come, as "Commons" is a multilingual project ? It is very hard to understand for non native english speaking people like me. Sorry.--Jebulon (talk) 17:17, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Info Wild Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the botanical garden at Portoviejo, Ecuador. This one is a male, as seen from the long dorsal spines and the reddish body colouration. The animal poses on a rock close to a pond covered with the invasive plant species Eichhornia crassipes.
I disagree. I think if the background were more in focus people would complain that it's distracting, same vice versa. In this case it's sharp enough at full resolution that you can see what the plants are, and they're all pretty evenly lit with no 'disturbing shadows,' but not so sharp that it draws attention away from the lizard in question. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 03:11, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice picture, good illustration, good colours. Background is at least uniform, although not blurred, so I think the composition is clean enough. It's difficult fitting entire long lizards into a good aspect ratio. --99of9 (talk) 01:23, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose The job (mosaïc, resolution) is fantastic, but I'm sorry, the stones doesn't look so in real, the natural colors are more "warm". Probably due to the bad lighting, per Benh.--Jebulon (talk) 09:29, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose in general, it's the right weather to make photos of this building, because of the gold. But in this case, it's really much too hazy. There's also a small stitching error. --kaʁstnDisk/Cat10:58, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose I think for such an place some wide-lens shot or panorama would be much better. This one is missing "wow effect". --Aktron (talk) 18:53, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: per above. --99of9 (talk) 06:25, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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I chose to check the histogram to analyze the image instead of looking at it. But, since the lightning matters to you that much, then maybe you should oppose the image. Gee, you could even have it as an "Weak oppose" ;) --Snaevar (talk) 02:48, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I did weak suuport because other than the lighting it might be featurable. Yes, yes, I know, I can be too lazy with opposes. :( -- IdLoveOne (talk) 21:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Despite quality. It is actually an informative picture, regarding carpentry. Tools (see planer between right side men), axes, working conditions, materials, etc., etc. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 16:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Yes, contrast. Histograms are not only useful of analyzing over and underexposure, but some knowledge of reading them is required to find out if images have lack of contrast. I suggest you google how to read histograms, since you find that surprising.--Snaevar (talk) 02:07, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I know, just seems like a weird reason to oppose. Almost an indirect request for digital tweaking and adjustments that might majorly change the mood and apparent timing of the image is all, not that that's necessarily a bad thing. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 18:16, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Info As I have pointed out many times over the years, there is no arbitary size limit of 2Mpx (there is a guideline to help submitters) --Tony Wills (talk) 10:28, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with your philosophy that there's no real need to have strict size rules. Some minor and well-justified deviations IMO are worth considering. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 23:46, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I guess this entry will promptly get opposed, neither the mariposa nor the flor being properly identified. The composition is a bit cramped, the concrete terrace in the background having more contrast and attracting the eye almost more than the butterfly. --MAURILBERT(discuter)02:16, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Very good illustratively and simple. I want to mention though, that there is a reason why astronomers do like a near-full eclipse like this one better than a partial one.--Snaevar (talk) 09:01, 27 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I think there could be some substantial undisclosed editing going on below the railing. In particular I think that some or all of the space below has been replaced with a fake background. Particularly on left hand side the tone suddenly jumps from dark above to light green below along the fence line. The rate of this tone shift seems inconsistent with the amount of background blur. Secondly the railing is blurred at the edges above, but sharp in places below. Finally there appears to be direct evidence of cloning on the lower left hand edge of the railing. I'd like an independent assessment before making such accusations though. JJ Harrison (talk) 09:58, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well the original edit got through FP with little trouble, where were you then :-). I must admit that my editing concentrated on repairing the bird, I am not really much fussed by the fashion for blurred, blank, backgrounds ;-). Perhaps someone with a bit more skill would care to tidy up the image (or start again from the original :-) --Tony Wills (talk) 11:04, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, sorry to waste your effort a bit. It might be technically possible to improve the consistency of background, but I'm not a photoshop whiz. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:00, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I would not bother with elaborate work on the background, since the quality is not up to the standard any longer: lack of detail due to heavy posterization (also, the head does not seem to be properly focused). It is essentially a bird without details in front of a photoshopped background. But I admit it looks nice as thumbnail. --Nikopol (talk) 12:44, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment "not up to the standard any longer" ? Boy-o-boy standards have improved in 3.5 months :-) It might be worth reviewing other FP promotions during November 2010 :-)
I did not look up the date of the picture´s promotion. If it was only three months ago, that does not make it better, on the contrary.--Nikopol (talk) 20:09, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Nice, but it would need some more space on the left as well as the right side, that would make the composition much better. --Aktron (talk) 18:51, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Decent quality at the buildings, lacking contrast in the sky and lacking somewhat DOF in the surroundings (just enough to make it interesting would be enough).--Snaevar (talk) 00:54, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Bad crop at the left and somewhat underexposed. I am aware that mentos makes cola (or even pepsi for that matter) spew like a fountain becouse of nucleation. Repeating this shot would be easy.--Snaevar (talk) 00:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Clearly an effort was made in composition and I'm sure in timing also. The quality is good and as for the crop it a little bit of splash cut out isn't much and if it were to be included it should be widened on both sides so it would remain even. The subject seems so random IMO. Worst of all this dramatic picture has a brand name on it and that really makes me not want this to end up as POTD. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 23:56, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Well, the first one is currently FPX-ed and as long it doesn't get contested I don´t see any reason to FPD this one.--Snaevar (talk) 23:41, 3 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: the suject-title is much too small and a terrible picture quality. --Sting (talk) 00:23, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I can see why it was submitted to FP, the strong diagonals of colour and cryptic horizon look quite good at 640x475. But at full resolution it certainly has problems. For an image taken at ISO 64 and 10Mpx resolution, and 11MB in size I am surprised at all the artifacts. I would love to see the non-photo-shopped original. --Tony Wills (talk) 11:50, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply] Comment It seems that two pictures were stitched together in a rather bad way: see the horizon line! Lower part is oversaturated, upper part is full of artifacts and noise. -- MJJR (talk) 22:37, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose why cropped so much? From 15 Mpx to 2 Mpx? The result is not sharp enough for the size neither. W.S.10:29, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral How do you overexpose a white object? Do you want it grey? However, it is not very sharp, and having the rear in front of those clouds is not good for composition. --TheHighFinSpermWhale19:18, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Nice colors and lighting, but there are some dust spots. Also, the sky is noisy. Can you fix this? Shouldn´t be a problem with CS4 :) I would do *Support. --Nikopol (talk) 19:03, 28 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I was to be the seventh, but I have a little doubt, it seems to need a small correction, the tower at right looks leaning in the wrong direction : the dark aperture behind the broken balcony looks distorded. Too heavy persp. correction ? --Jebulon (talk) 14:39, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Jebulon, the tower seems to lean in the wrong direction because the slant is different in the front than on the back, that is, the slant in the front is of a different angle than the slant in the back, you can see it in the second tower also. If you were to look at the towers from the top down, the center of the top portion would not sit in the center of the bottom circle, it would be off-center. This can be appreciated when you look at the towers from the side. Perspective correction always distorts something else. The only way to really get better perspectives is with view cameras or perspective correction lenses. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 16:46, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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InfoWild Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in the Botanical Garden at Portoviejo, Ecuador. This one is a female, as seen form the relatively short dorsal spines and the green body colouration.
Oppose the quality is super, the DOF is good (even if the background is a bit disturbing in full resolution), but I really don't like the tail crop, too (per W.S.) --kaʁstnDisk/Cat12:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Good compromise between DOF on the subject and background blur, IMO. This sort of subject, with tail, generally gets lost in the frame and little information is added. Walter Siegmund(talk)18:13, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Not that this is not the full resolution image, which is considerably larger in area, too big to upload to Wikimedia Commons or fit in a JPEG file. Once I've uploaded it to Internet Archive I will link it from this image. Dcoetzee (talk) 18:01, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Ouch! Is this really the best that commons has to offer? Do you want this as an example of our prowess on the main page? Composition is trivial and DOF is low. W.S.09:27, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Baah. I've got already a tough enough job trying to ensure no substandard images reach FP to get involved in picture taking, thank you. W.S.14:09, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Since this is made with 5 Mpx camera, and perhaps there was some crop i support. Would be different when see downsizing from 16 Mpx. --Mile (talk) 10:29, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Night shots are dark by nature, sunset shots on the other hand... Only tiny part of this picture is actually lit by the sun. - Benh (talk) 12:33, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment –Very nice indeed, but the visual impact could have been even greater with a slightly different position of the sun, illuminating larger areas of the rock. What can be interpreted as posterization in the sky, details I can see too like Maedin but not as noticeable as he said, are maybe/possibly only slight differences in the thickness of the high altitude clouds. Sting (talk) 12:26, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support The composition is clearly an artistic choice and not meant to show off the whole building, but I somewhat agree with Jujutacular about the posterization. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 03:43, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: the image is too small. The picture has also an unnecessary frame and watermark. -- Sting (talk) 11:48, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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1) The edge image can be changed (unless specifically required). 2) The rules for the nomination did not provide for the format SVG images. 3) Conditions do not provide the desired image minimum size for drawing. --W.Rebel (talk) 13:40, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
As you put here the raster version, don't you agree that 720x720 px is really far from the 2 MPx requested for the candidates? Sting (talk) 14:15, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Sorry, but this is too small (only 1.49 megapixels). All candidates need to be atleast 2 megapixels - JovianEye (talk) 06:51, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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You, Muratov, are not writing about the same thing as JovianEye. Sure, the picture is 2,3 Megabites, but what JovianEye is talking about here is Megapixels. Resolution, but not file size. Do you get the difference between those two?--Snaevar (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Fixing the crop would only require a solid black line above his head, and is only one request away. The levels are blue, because the jacket is blue. WB and histograms always show same amount of colors as is in the image, obviously.--Snaevar (talk) 00:36, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I'm fine with the wb, though it would be nicer to have a less tight crop on the top. Otherwise, very good portrait, just not quite there for FP maybe... Steven Walling21:33, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info it's the framing of the original image - the space above in the original version is of pure black, which indicates this is part of the medium used for digitisation (kodachrome slide or else). this is a restoration not a retouched image, therefore enhancing the the framing is not going to happen. regards, PETER WEISTALK09:41, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Its restoration of more than 20 Mpx photo from 1973. Check some 2000 eur camera at 16 Mpx, would be funny to compare noise issue. --Mile (talk) 16:45, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support -- GerardM (talk) 15:28, 3 March 2011 (UTC) we need high quality pictures of any and all politicians from any stripe from all over the world, never mind if we consider them good or bad. This is a quality portrait picture of a man that is currently very much in the news.[reply]
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Oppose blurry at the hat and collar and bad crop, some of the hairs on his head are cropped on the left edge of the image.--Snaevar (talk) 01:02, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment -- Concerning the possibility of hiding certain images, I fully agree with Muhammad that FPC should be work and family safe. However I started a discussion some time ago about how to deal with pornographic nominations (not the case, I know) and, as far as I remember, no clear consensus was reached. From what I recall (can't find the thread though) the majority of editors was of the opinion that no special treatment was due to such nominations. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 18:15, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Nice subject, of course, but blown highlights and resolution a bit low. I expect something better from a posing model like this. --Cephas (talk) 00:26, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Really big and distracting cable to the right, pidgeon to the left and finally dark parts in the engravings. The last one is not your fault, but all those three things add up.--Snaevar (talk) 00:43, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support very good DOF, intersting lighting. Wenn Du vielleicht noch die Zweige etwas beiseite geschoben hättest, wäre es von meiner Seite eine 1+ geworden. Aber auch so, echt ein starkes Bild! --kaʁstnDisk/Cat14:38, 4 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Mushrooms tend to grow in darker, moister areas (to no one: why are mushrooms in plants in the featured pictures?). The use of flash is reasonable. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 09:42, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Dendroconus figulinus, Conidae, Fig Cone; Length 8 cm; Originating from the Indo-West-Pacific. Dorsal, lateral (right side), ventral, back, and front view.
Yuh, I don't hate the style, and it's even pretty attractive. But when there are technical faults, one must mention them right (Since we can't trust you on this) ? And it's not like Llez can't repeat the shots easily. - Benh (talk)
No, I have criticized Llez's pieces that I thought might've been flawed before. The difference is that my primary approach is visual whereas you criticize from a technical ideal justification. For example in one case you claimed that, despite visual evidence that to me seemed to indicate otherwise I had provided, that a piece Llez nominated was unsharp merely and solely because of the technique that was used. It also seems a lot of your issues with Llez's pieces are that an even number of shots usually isn't used like you would prefer. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 10:47, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It really was unsharp in that case... And I justified because of the technique used. You're the one who thought that shooting at narrower aperture was enough to improve quality and DOF, the one who mistake perspective issue with architectural feature and the one who ask people to use measure unit that isn't provided... That's why I think you're not trustworthy as a FPC reviewer... and yet you dare looking down on others as making decent points. Where are we going ?? - Benh (talk) 17:58, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And there you go again, posting more attacks and snobbish opinions like an expert, but not only were you unable to read my comment to W.S. about the image he linked on that candidate where I explained that I mistook that user's intention of adding that image like an alternate candidate, you continue to make quite loud your ignorance of issues that can occur with panoramic imagery that lead myself and another C:FPC user who's been around here far longer than you to make such a mistake. Oh, and, myself excluded, six people disagreed with you that the image was unsharp. You aren't making decent points and we wouldn't miss you if you left, you're just being smug, trollish, disruptive of polite conduct that we are accustomed to here, and I think that funny-looking bridge might be the only image you've ever supported anyway. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 22:53, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
You are skirting very close to personal attacks here IdLoveOne, please tone it down. I'm not sure who you mean by "we", but you certainly aren't speaking for all of the FPC community when you suggest that Ben should leave. Further, you may wish to check your facts: Ben has been here for quite a while, and has supported plenty of images in his time.--99of9 (talk) 05:36, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
...And what of Benh's attacks on me, 99? I try to be civil, but I do not apologize for what I said because he doesn't and it annoys me. Almost any other user here I can have polite disagreement with, but oh no, not Benh. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 07:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
None of the people mentioned that the image was sharp... and the people who were against clearly mentioned it was unsharp. Anyways... You can read any article you want about anything, nothing betters experience in my opinion. I believe I have some when it comes to panorama, whatever you might think, and the records speak for myself. The link you provide proves nothing about the Carcassonne FPC... and I'll risk myself into saying the other user you mention doesn't know much about panorama either. When you try to prove something at least check the facts better, as advised by 99. This isn't the first time you're a bit too quick to come to a conclusion. Benh (talk) 06:29, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Such fantastic illustration can be helpfull to determine an exact species! Thank you very much! (You have really a huge collection, haven´t you :-)?)H. Krisp (talk) 11:15, 5 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Same. As already mentioned in my previous assessments, are we going to feature all shells out there ?. If at least they were properly shot... Here however, quality is acceptable (I still think there's focus issues on two first views) and lighting seems a bit better. - Benh (talk) 17:58, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree completely. Let's limit the shell pictures to 5 per year! As there exist 4 times as many gastropod species as birds, not more than 2 pictures of birds can be allowed to be nominated per year. And Homo sapiens is only a single species. In relation, not more than one single picture of a human being every hundred years! ;-) -- Llez (talk) 22:16, 6 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, but these shells are empty...I would love to see them full and in their natural environment.These are not fossils. --Citron (talk) 09:39, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
They still have EV on their own and look nice. Might also be weirder to get the multiple angles unless Llez just did one POV.. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 11:19, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
If you have a look on the recently featured Picture of a Fingerprint Cowrie you can see, that the shell is completely covered by tissue, it isn't visible! And this is the case in many marine species. You can't make photos of the shell of many species when they are alive, and you can't "see them full and in their natural environment". Nevertheless, a shell is very important for taxonomy, visible or not in living specimens. So it is quite different to photograph shells and to photograph living animals. It always depends, what you want to show. I photograph shells, there are other photographers, which make pictures of living gastropods. We need both on Commons! --Llez (talk) 18:51, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Really would be nice if it had something to help viewers know how huge these things are per Maurilbert. Also some metadata so users can judge your technical choices and equipment you have on hand instead of the image itself. /sarcasm -- IdLoveOne (talk) 13:54, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral thanks for the nomination.. since it is my image.. I would comment that a better lighting conditions can make a better image (i.e. without the sun shadows). Ggia (talk) 15:41, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I would say lack of DOF, but I can´t see any details to be captured. Instead I am going to agree with Ggia and point out that one stone window is partially cut out on the left edge of the picture. The oppose vote comes from that I don´t think the quality is up to par.--Snaevar (talk) 01:04, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Perspective issue as the timber pillars guide the eye to the center of the picture. I belive the timber and the arch above it is what the picture is supposed to be of and in that perspective, it just doesn't work the way it should do.--Snaevar (talk) 00:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Dear Micael Lopes: I regret to inform you that your account is a "suspicious account" [[8]] due to the fact that it is either less than 10 days old or you don´t have 50 edits, or both, therefore you cannot vote in your own nomination, least people think you are stacking the votes in your favor. You must do hard time by waiting 10 days and do at least 50 edits, meaningless if you want. After you comply with the rules, you may cross over to the camp of the not suspicious accounts. Regards. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 21:32, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Severly overexposed in the top left corner and motion blur on the bear (although I agree that the perspective is good.)--Snaevar (talk) 00:23, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I nominated this because of the motion blur. It's a major aspect in the "1000 words" of this photo and shows a well-known couple of behaviors of bears: Their ability to swim, their ability to withstand the cold and, well, the pretty much only way they know how to dry themselves off. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 13:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so. Snow and ice are white or rather when light hits/enters snow or ice crystals they reflect back white light. Therefore a photograph of ice is to be expected to be white and radiant and seem overexposed. That page is more about his method of compensating through deliberate underexposure, but I'm just making a point. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 13:35, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I´m talking about overexposure in the top left, just as THFSW voted on. The first alternative picture is better than the second, but I must agree with Sting, that you are not quite getting the idea.--Snaevar (talk) 13:52, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oh! Wait, do you mean on the bear? If so you could've just said that. You three had me wondering about the ice, and that's his (her?) right BTW. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 14:06, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
@IdLoveOne : what the guy wrote is that if you take a picture of a very clear subject (here ice), the exposure meter of the camera will try to get a middle gray scene, underexposing the ice, so usually the photographers compensate a bit to get back the correct balance of the scene and a bright subject, but Mr Zuckerman prefers not applying that correction and he never wrote that ice/snow should be overexposed, on the contrary as a burnt photo is lost. Note that for a dark subject it's the contrary, the meter trying to get it gray... and it's what happened here as the bear is in the shadow while the upper left corner is in the sun, that's why this area is blown as no compensation was made. Sting (talk) 22:13, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
No, no, I didn't say the snow should be overexposed. I said that because of how light works with snow when photographed without a compensating method it will appear to be overexposed. He underexposes his snow imagery and then digitally enhances them later. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 00:03, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
« with snow... without a compensating method it will appear to be overexposed » at the contrary !! « ...sees overexposure of ice and snow as natural » well, your first comment leads to misunderstanding, but that's ok. Sting (talk) 00:13, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I like the overexposure in the top left, because the overall contrast it creates adds to the expression of the picture. Nice circular motion blur, clearly shaking its head MerlinCharon (talk) 12:16, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I see a blurry bear and partialy overexposed background, which all together makes an impression of a quckly made snapshot. Masur (talk) 08:50, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I dont think this picture has low educational value. I can think of a dozen of potential places it can be used in. For example - this can be an example picture of a fog that forms in low temperatures. Or any other kind of fogs. Or the Tyndall effect. Or some kind of halo (I may be wrong, I'm not a specialist). Or a mornig. Or colloids. Or anything, really. The possibilities are limited only by one's imagination. --Von.grzanka (talk) 19:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose seems tilted but the major reason for opposing is the overall composition (the road in the right makes a confusing composition). Ggia (talk) 22:15, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Seems pretty sharp, although I think we should have more standard backgrounds for scientific images than just black and white because the white is a bit hard on the eyes in this case. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 05:58, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Read the yellow box named Formal things above this nomination, and then try to tell me that it is. And cut the crap.--Snaevar (talk) 12:40, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question How about keeping it civil? Read what it says, not what you think it says. Just because various people keep insisting something is true doesn't make it so. --Tony Wills (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Start by asking how many microscopic images are candidates for QI, let alone FP. FP doesn't even have a category for microscopic images. Mitigating reasons? Have you ever tried taking microscopic images? One problem is that at high magnification, depth of field is incredibly small, so only a small portion of the object is usually in focus - focus stacking can help. Next the camera on the microscope usually doesn't have any seperate lens system, you can't zoom in, the raw image is a rectangle containing the circular view of the microscope stage as seen down the barrel of the microscope. Unless you want to have lots of black around the edge you crop that off, ie extract a rectangle from within the circle, within the raw image. In this case the object fills the whole cropped image, it is not like an insect or animal that probably on fills a quarter of the field of view at the most. So it is a different category of image, rejecting it out of hand is unreasonable. Is it so common place that we have lost the sense of wonder, of wow!, when we see the insides of a cell? --Tony Wills (talk) 20:22, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment -- Thanks for the explanation. Yes, I believe many of us are well aware of the difficulties posed by traditional microscopic imagery. Still those difficulties are not, per se, enough justification for promotion. On the other hand, the fact that a certain image is not promoted doesn't take away any of its intrinsic encyclopaedic or educational value. As for the sense of wonder, which is a major component of the FPC evaluation, it is totally subjective and varies from reviewer to reviewer. Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:20, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Bullshit! Try to buy a microscope camera under 2Mpx these days. Not possible. And if not a dedicated system, use a T-mount/C-mount and with a +10 Mpx camera you can crop 3/4 and still fulfil the FP requirements. And then there are stacking and stitching, a breeze on mostly stationary microscopic images. W.S.15:11, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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He's just using the histogram. The image has a lot of highlighting, but there's no clipping so there arguably is no overexposure, certainly none that the eye can see. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 09:22, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I am using the histogram. Most of it is in the forground, that is in the bush in the bottom right, in the flag next to it and the tree to the far right (all parts that show clearly visable overexposure). But, apart from the houses in the background in the center of the far left of the image and the sky there is overexposure everywhere.--Snaevar (talk) 13:33, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I look at pictures with my eyes and not with the histrogramm an I can see everythink clearly. Also the sky has a visible painting with blue parts and clouds with different tonality. --Wladyslaw (talk) 13:39, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Wladyslaw. Also, the medium of photography is an art, which is to be evaluated with the eye to the actual picture, and not with the mathematical charting of the EXIF data histogram. The histogram cannot determine whether a picture is good or not. This picture appears well exposed to me. LeavXC (talk) 23:56, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Underexposed, would be better if it was shot at different time during the day, and the fog is working against you on this photo. Good quality at the trees, though.--Snaevar (talk) 14:07, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I like it. I mean, the forest was chopped down leaving a raw wood, so the colors are raw as well :-) Sky is cloudy and it is obviously hard to make it not at least a bit overexposed. Using a grey filter would harm the trees leaving a "black something". But the colors and the topic is an absolute WIN I must say. The only thing I'd like to change here is format: widescreen shot would be a bit nicer. --Aktron (talk) 09:26, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose The top of the trees are unsharp, along with some disortions. There is a cropped clump of wood and a falling tree on the left who are both partly cropped out and a branch out of a tree cropped out on the right giving a bad composition.--Snaevar (talk) 00:10, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose It is possible to take a nice shot of a clearcut. This shot has some EV, but is definitely not FP level to me, sorry. --Cephas (talk) 22:26, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Talvez um pouco, Micael, mas ainda muito longe da qualidade exigida numa FP. Neste caso, é a câmara que não é suficientemente boa, o que provoca muito grão (parece areia na foto) e prejudica a nitidez da imagem. Por favor, dá uma vista de olhos às nossas FPs de flores: Commons:Featured pictures/Plants/Flowers. Que tal arranjares uma câmara um pouco melhor? -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 00:39, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Appears heavily distorted. Either I don't like the structure, or I don't like the photo. Either way, I don't feel the wow. --99of9 (talk) 23:22, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Query: the largest image I can see on the Spitzer site is 2400 x 3000 pixels. How did we get a 5,600 × 5,600 pixel version? --Avenue (talk) 21:31, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Pictures in theme parks are always tricky. Pictures taken there should have a small number of people, but also be photographed at the right time of the day. Inevitably, this calls for an compromise sometimes between those two factors.--Snaevar (talk) 12:59, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Depends. If this is a profile picture of the shark, then well done. But if the picture is of the shark shown in whole, then it´s body isn´t sharp enough, particularly on the edge between the body and the floor.--Snaevar (talk) 22:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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How about setting a scale beside, to get real feeling about it. You know, like mugshots. Would be better than dim. stated in description. How much of 3rd dimension did You get at this perspective ? --Mile (talk) 12:39, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Diameter (as indicated in the description!) 7,5 cm, thickness about 2 cm (how to add a vertical scale for thickness?). --Llez (talk) 13:24, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I believe it could be sharper. I think f/18 is wrong setting for an object where almost all the relevant points fall into or are very close to the focal plane. - Benh (talk) 18:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'd use the "sweet spot" of the lens. It's often at around f/8, and I don't think you'll get DOF issue with such setting. Only trying will let you know ;) - Benh (talk) 19:13, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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To me (lightroom 3.0), there aren't blown-out-parts, but I upload a new version and I think that it's better.--Miguel Bugallo10:03, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support This nice picture of the oldest still active lighthouse in the world. UNESCO World Heritage since 2009. Built by the Romans in the first century of the current era.--Jebulon (talk) 01:28, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Thanks. I think that all you are right. New version without several dust spots and with more contrast--Miguel Bugallo22:39, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Resolution is 1.09Megapixels, witch is below the expected minium for Featured Pictures of 2Megapixels
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Support Well executed and eye catching. Maybe someone should do some noise reduction in the sky and foreground, but it doesn't really affect the overall impression. JJ Harrison (talk) 23:11, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support The image gives a good impression on the object, and the nocturnal conditions give it a fascinating spin. Positive yes. P.S. While the image is not contrast-perfect, it does provide a fine contrast between the blue horizon (dark color) and the white monument (light color). It could also be argued that the highlights in the foreground give the Wikimedia viewership a hint of the fusion between historical traditions (the monument) and modernity (the lights, electricity, and so on and so forth). I do not think those negative comments above should be taken seriously, therefore. --Александър (talk) 21:42, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I've used Noise reduction and Crop commands in a photo-editing programme. That's why the exif-data are not presented, are they obligatory? Иван (talk) 12:00, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I've always considered EXIF data in (originally digital) photos as important as the Reference section in the articles. They very much add credibility to the author, as well as helpfully inform the other photographers of parameters like ISO, speed, aperture, etc. See Commons:EXIF :) Maybe you can upload the original photo (under a different filename) and let us know the name of the editing program. Thus you may obtain a more particular advice of how to preserve the EXIF data. →Spiritia13:05, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately I've no time to come back to this file again, but I'm going to preserve the exif data in all pictures, which I'm going to upload in Wikimedia Commons later. Иван (talk) 11:47, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Well, I can understand that this picture had to be rotated a few degrees CW to correct the tilt. Yet, I believe a top-and-bottom crop would've been the finishing touch. --MAURILBERT(discuter)03:56, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It is an 82 degree photo stitching panorama (8x3 +/-2ev 55mm 3872x2592 exposures). To me it seems very sharp and rich of details. The main historical buildings of the city are visible. Cypress and olive trees in the near field are among the most popular features of the Tuscany land. In my opinion the major technical flaw is the overexposure of white walls of some buildings hit by the sunlight, visible at the pixel scale. -- Fabio ginestrini (talk) 20:00, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Hmm, the background could possibly be removed, stretched out and replaced with all black or something? Or maybe the same color as the building in the background? Opinions, Commons? -- One, please.( Thank you.)07:16, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Easy image (birds are easily attracted to a ripe fruit) but poor quality, much too small and bad white balance. W.S.14:57, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral I like this compilation, but I don't like the white background either. It negates otherwise interesting images but not so much that I want to oppose. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 23:13, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I think that white background is not intentional but sky, one can see a blue patch behind White-cheeked Barbet. Anyway that background help the birds more sharp.--Praveen:talk07:11, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Dear DerkArts: I regret to inform you that your account is a "suspicious account" [[9]]due to the fact that it is either less than 10 days old or you don´t have 50 edits, or both, therefore you cannot vote in your own nomination. You must do hard time by waiting 10 days and do at least 50 edits, meaningless if you want. After you comply with the rules, you may cross over to the camp of the not suspicious accounts. Regards.--Tomascastelazo (talk) 20:31, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (formerly FPX) Image does not fall within the guidelines, the image quality is poor (too much noise) and the species is not identified -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I've uploaded a new version with some more noise reduction, also, I know it's part of the Salticidae, but not sure what sub-species exactly, was hoping an expert could identify it.
If you use that image as reference I see only one picture on this entire page that would qualify to be a featured image, and you could scrap almost the entire featured image list, because there are very few that can hold up to that standard. But Alas.--Derkarts (talk) 13:16, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Although it may not be of a more interesting topic, the image properly illustrates the subject in a well-developed portrait. It is rare to get a high-quality head-on image of an actor to be released under a free license, and this one seems to me to illustrate the encyclopedia article well in a similar manner to the other actor portrait FPs. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:53, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose The bunch of tree branches and the trash at the bottom left to bottom center makes up a bad perspective. Cropping the image will not solve the issue.--Snaevar (talk) 00:10, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support This picture does have it´s flaws. It is a bit dark, I admit, but it is illuminated by lights on the building and along with the blue hour it makes the picture interesting.--Snaevar (talk) 13:41, 12 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose There is a problem with the sharpness/details of the schrooms at the left quarter of the image. Colours and atmosphere are good and promising however. W.S.07:03, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Really, do all pictures of everything have to look the same and be predictable? There are many different types of aesthetics out there. A bird-lover could use this as a wallpaper. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 15:34, 11 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Nothing that can be done about the wires, the grass isn't really much nuisance and I don't see a problem in the crop. DOF on the left is a little lower than it could be though. -- IdLoveOne (talk) 00:09, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral DOF is not the problem, the image quality of the lens at F3.5 is. The grass at the bottom could be removed if necessary (I can't, I don't have access to my desktop PC for two weeks), but the modern catenary spoils it a bit. Not sure what the problem with the crop is. --Kabelleger (talk) 19:47, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I share Avenue's appreciation, but my conclusion is that the subject is sufficiently rare and the photograph sufficiently useful to warrant a FP. Rama (talk) 07:45, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral Ok, better, but Canada Goose is relatively common and it should be possible to work out a better picture for FP. --Cephas (talk) 10:11, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I agree it's not FP quality, that's why it's not a FP in the first place. 123.22.19.191, are you sure you understand what delisting is about? --TheHighFinSpermWhale16:41, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral Only because of the people. If you have another snapshot of the same place at around the same time without people, I'm going to vote positive without any hesitation. Иван (talk) 14:21, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Definitely prefer to have the people blurred, is a good technique to direct the attention of the viewer to the bridge (i.e. subject). Nice to see they follow the traffic signs :). --ELEKHHT21:10, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Prefer to have the people blurred, but I'm not quite confident of this picture as FP, as it isn´t really one of the best on commons.--Snaevar (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate, the picture is by now curtly four years old and both equipment and my personal skills had enhanced. I will try to make a new one. I withdraw my nomination. --Wladyslaw (talk) 09:47, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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I think that some credit should be given to the photographer, as this is a pretty good pic for an event that was over in seconds. -- Thomas888b (talk) 21:30, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Aktron actually has a good point here. Sure, the space shuttle lands at speeds above 300km/h, but just as with racing track pictures, I imagine that the camera is in a fixed place, witch makes the level of the picture a preparation issue. Also, there is plenty of commons pictures of space shuttle landings who do satisfy this criteria.--Snaevar (talk) 23:52, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Level issue. Could be easily edited and, frankly, missing space can probably be reconstructed with a bit of work if cropping the tail is an issue. Rama (talk) 07:48, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info Level? The runway is not a horizon! The photo is taken looking on an angle up the runway slightly, instead on straight across, at right angles. The camera is very slightly tilted too, which can be judged by looking at the red/white marker post and the steel tower in the background. You can rotate the image by about 0.69degrees clockwise to correct that, but visually it makes very little difference to how the image looks and the slight JPEG processing just decreases the image quality, a small gain in one area, a small loss in another, why bother?. You could do a 'perspective correction' and get a nice horizontal runway, that makes it look as though the shot was take at the exact moment that the shuttle came abreast of the photograher ... except for the paralex error, you could still see the far rear wheel rather than it being hidden by the near rear wheel. So are people complaining of a 0.69degree fault or the runway not being horizontal? Why not accept the image isn't technically perfect (what image is?), and judge it on the value - the historical significance and un-repeatabilty of the image? --Tony Wills (talk) 22:24, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rotated to make verticals, vertical. Runway still not horizontal.
Rotated to make runway horizontal. Parallex error with rear wheels.
Perspective correction to make runway horizontal. Parallex error with rear wheels.
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Oppose Composition problem - a lot of nature can be seen but only a few houses and if so, most likely in the distance. Technical quality is good, I like especially the colors. Aktron (talk) 17:10, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Sorry, I was several million years too late to get a living specimen ;-)
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Oppose I don't like the colors and also exosure could be a bit shorter (time) to make the picture a little bit darker. --Aktron (talk) 22:33, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Background distracting. Monkey in the background is completely out of focus with its head obscured. Please use lower case jpg for file names as is recommended on en wiki, and to which commons refers to. Snowmanradio (talk) 20:33, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Left part of the frieze (the Immortals) of Darius the first, achaemenid emperor of Persia, ca. 510 BCE, Musée du Louvre-- Jebulon (talk) 00:22, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
please have some further informations on the file description page. It was excavated by french archeologists circa 1885 in Susa, former Persia, now Iran, and restorated by Le Louvre. Now, fortunately, it belongs to all the mankind. --Jebulon (talk) 14:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support with a Request - Actually this is more underexposed than over according to those histograms Snaever loves so much. But I would like to see the title changed to remove the URL. That could just be put in the image source so it's not SOAPBOXing. -- One, please.( Thank you.)17:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral Nice view but a portion of the snow looks over-exposed. I am not sure but the colour of the water makes it seem oversaturated. There is slight noise visible in the sky. Aditionally, I would like to see a geocode. --JovianEye (talk) 02:12, 15 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Well the colors and contrast might be a bit unrealistic, but truely, it prevents the picture from large over or underexposed parts. And this is just fine. --Aktron (talk) 22:46, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral Quality could be better, seems a bit unsharp. I have no problem with featuring things people might just think of as common like a door, but I wish this were less fuzzy for FP. The composition is good, but maybe QI? -- One, please.( Thank you.)16:59, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I can not orientate my way around. It should have an occompanying picture showing the whole building. I do not immediately see high educational value and no importance or historic significance is indicated in the file documentation. Snowmanradio (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info Well it documents architecture in a larger city in serbian Banate, especially from the closer point of view. Yes, it might seem a bit flicker-y, but I can imagine Wikipedia or WMC projects' pages where such a picture would be well used. --Aktron (talk) 15:44, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose distorted sky, background is overexposed, the sand marks in the forground lack detail and the dark spot at the left edge spoils the composition.--Snaevar (talk) 00:46, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There is a rendering bug or something like it there. There are faded lines along the blue sky. Am I the only one that sees that?--Snaevar (talk) 15:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Desculpe, mas você analizou a imagem de forma incorreta. Isso é ação da natureza. Claro que isso é causado por ventos cisalhados que ocorrem muito nessa região. Isso causa o efeito de riscos no céu azul. Não há motivos para discordo certo?
Sorry, but you analyzed the picture incorrectly. This is the action of nature. Of course this is caused by wind shears that occur in this region too. This has the effect of risk in the blue sky. There is no reason to disagree right?
(Response to User Snaevar) (Português) Desculpe, mas a foto esta plenamente boa o que para algumas certas pessoas que só querem mais a plena perfeição, o que essas pessoas dificultam muito. E a sua conclusão sobre céu distorcido, você foi longe de mais. As manchas pretas que você fala são pegadas de pessoas. (algo que não incomoda a leitura da foto). Sobre a tal escuridão no canto da imagem sobre a água você esta sendo precipitado. Ok?!!(English - Sorry, but the photo is fully sound which to some certain people who just want more full perfection, what these people very difficult. And his conclusion about fuzzy sky, you went too far. Theblack spotsthat you speak are footprints of people. (something that does not bother reading the photo). On this dark corner of the image on the water you're being hasty. Ok?!) Um abraço Micael 106 (talk) 20:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think I need to clarify a few things. First of all, if the Portuguese comment would have been in spanish, then I would have understood some of it. The existence of the black spots as such is not a problem, I would just like to see them better. And the dark spot in the center to the left edge of the image, is actually the last thing I noticed and you would be wrong if you you think that I haven´t thought about it before I posted my vote. Plus, I can´t belive that you would not accept to make a few changes to the photo, like cropping it to on the left edge. FP is the place that has the most demands for photos for a reason, and one of those are that FP´s are all included in the Featured pictures of the day, witch are displayed on the front pages of the majority (if not all of them) of the 279 wikipedias out there. There are less demands for pictures on QI, than here. Finally, I can´t see why I should make a compromise meanwhile there is no sign of that you would be willing to make one yourself. --Snaevar (talk) 15:41, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Snaevar, Sobre o português escrevo porque é minha lingua nativa, talvez alguem que seja português venha a ler essa mensagem. A imagem acima foi modificada por mim. tentei melhorar a qualidade, mas infelismente não chegou com bons olhos para alguns. Carreguei a versão original mais acima desta página. Por favor seja honesto em sua votação e não faça comentários desnecessários que possam desvalorizar a imagem sem sentido algum (Como céu distorcido, sem lógica) obrigado Micael 106 (talk) 20:07, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(Inglês) Snaevar, write about the Portuguese because it is my native language, Portuguese is that maybe someone will read this message. The image above was modified by me. tried to improve the quality, but unfortunately did not welcome for some. I loaded the original version of this page above. Please be honest in their vote and not make unnecessary comments that might devalue the image without any sense (like sky distorted, illogical) thanks
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Oppose This picture quite literally screams for more exposure. Also, quite unfortunate to have car roofs on the bottom of the picture.--Snaevar (talk) 00:00, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I did a bit of tilt reduction here. The car roofs can easily be cropped out. Also, I could not expose the tower any more without blowing the clouds. This version needs the smudges removed and the perspective distortion corrected. Anyone willing to help? I'm not really that advanced with GIMP so I can't do this stuff myself. --TheHighFinSpermWhale03:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment A Cray supercomputer is so fast, it can execute an infinite loop in under 2 seconds! Btw, is this the one that stood in the IFW building at ETH Zurich until recently? --Kabelleger (talk) 20:31, 16 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support not disturbed by the tight crop here, maybe because the background is of similar colour as the foreground. --ELEKHHT01:51, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment Just how big is this wall of figures (or gopuram, like you choose to call it)? Would it be possible to capture the whole thing?--Snaevar (talk) 01:03, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Of course, this CC-By-NC-ND license is usable - as long as at least one allowed license, here the GDFL 1.2, is used. One allowed free license allows for every other license, even if the other license(s) is / are as much restricted as possible. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:27, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Not worth the non-free license. This is nice, but it's not sufficiently hard to take that I would consider it necessary to accept a less than completely free file. Steven Walling01:50, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, I saw that, but I do not agree with the smorgasbord of licensing approach. In the Americas the FAL is almost entirely unknown and untested legally. Almost everyone here intending to use the image who would show up and see the NC clause in the CC license would be discouraged from reuse, and I find it to be on shaky ground to say one license does not permit commercial reuse while the other does. Legal freedoms are not a buffet to pick and choose from: you either have the right to do something commercially or not. Steven Walling02:14, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support I like this one too and I think the only reason it doesn't look to be 90 degrees is because of the photographer's perspective and anyway it's not a bad view. -- One, please.( Thank you.)00:27, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Request what about a little correction of perspective? The water tank on the right should stand straight and not tilted as it is. I'll happily support such an edit because I like the composition making wise use of the steam and smoke clouds in nice colours. Grand-Duc (talk) 00:31, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral It is a pity that the NASA employee used such a strong JPEG compression, there are visible artifacts, I've annotaed two points where there could be seen when zoomed in at 100%. Additionally, there is some banding in the sky... So I really do not know at this moment if the uniqueness of this moment and the atmospheric lightning are enough "mitigating circumstances" per COM:IG for me to support. I'll pore over on it. Grand-Duc (talk) 20:30, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support Slightly blown and unexposed some places, but great composition. I disagree that this is grainy, plus medium DOF was used. Especially love the fish swimming in the background. :) -- One, please.( Thank you.)16:39, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose hmm, created by NASA actually, not the nominator. In any case the lack of contrast between the subject and the background, makes it less than outstanding. --ELEKHHT20:46, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Usei o Intelli-studio da Samsung. (tirado com câmera Kodak) Na verdade não fiz nada, acho que só aumentei a nitidez. nada mais. Que tipos de artefatos você diz? obrigado. Micael 106 (talk) 17:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
(inglês) I used the Intelli-studio from Samsung. (taken with Kodak) Actually I did nothing, I think only increased the sharpness. nothing more. What types of artifacts you say? Thank you. Micael 106 (talk) 17:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Meu filho problema seu! Sabe de uma coisa essa wikimedia é muito chata, quero dizer os participantes parecem muito metodicos isso é meio ruim. Nunca mais usarei este recurso fraco e anti-democrático onde pessoas não dão valores. (My son is your problem! You know that wikimedia's really annoying, I mean the participants seem very methodical that's kinda bad. Never again will I use this feature weak and undemocratic where people do not give values.)
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Info some bright stones and mussel shells are visible in the shallow water, the depth at this place less than ten meters from the bank is not more than 30 to 40 centimetres.
Oppose - contrast too high, unnatural colors; whites on the bird overblown. Composition is also less than satisfactory for me with the standard centered side-shot. –Juliancolton | Talk17:25, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Opposeoverblown whites, but mostly the standard, centred composition of a common bird, taken from a not so good angle, makes it below FP to me. --ELEKHHT20:53, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Question What do you mean with "overblown"? There are actually only three pixels in true white, I've screenshotted a histogram, see here: ; the contrast may come from the spot metering on the gull which was illuminated by the sun. As for the composition, the eye sits exactly at the intersection of the upper and the right line of thirds. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 22:33, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose too little contrast. The histogram that Grand-Duc provided tells the same story, as there is just one peak in the whole histogram.--Snaevar (talk) 13:28, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support there is no need for a large DOF to illustrate the behaviour of a material under UV illumination, I believe that you do not need to play on the saturation to get those colours, people in dance halls are glowing like this when illuminated with UV... Grand-Duc (talk) 20:36, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I believe this is a macro shot, hence the apparent low depth of field. And I don't believe it's over saturated either. Not ultra sharp (maybe because of f/16) but fine given the size, and interesting subject to me - Benh (talk) 21:33, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment for Benh. Uncivil/unnecessary comment removed.[11] It is by no means macrophotogrphie, this type of specimen is around 10cm. The subject is oversaturated because neither siderite and even less wolfrmite are fluoresent. Now it appears here in a beautiful purple. --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 11:17, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral Yes, I should have searched before. I've also checked for size. There seems to be smaller than 10cm specimens. I've also checked that filling an APSC size frame at 60mm with a 10cm big subject can require to be rather close (depending on the point of view and given it's not 10cm an all sides), hence the DOF issue. I also found that some apatite crystal glow the same way under UV waves, but the photos I found weren't this saturated. Changed my vote to reflect. - Benh (talk) 11:56, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Well, it's a good stuff, but unfortunately, not a good for a FP. I mean, I made quite a lot of pictures oversaturated like this one, all my friends told me, they are "psychedelic" and now I hate my self for uploading them few years ago :-) --Aktron (talk) 22:43, 18 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Both the daylight photo and this one don´t have even sharpness over the whole apatite specimen. I think though, that the photographer has mounted the stone on the bottom (to keep it steady), so I'm not completely sure about the bottom crop.--Snaevar (talk) 17:57, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment The wall is not a "no go" (?), it is only one of the walls of the moat, and gives sense to the presence of a cannon...--Jebulon (talk) 00:40, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support The way the cannon manages to capture attention while being darked than its background is interesting. The wall-cannon-flag trypctic gives both a sense of perspective and renders the military atmosphere of the place. Rama (talk) 07:42, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support The original color of "les Invalides" is a light yellowish/brownish. This is inforced by the lightning. I like the warm colors. BTW, does "walls of an building should not be yellowish in color" mean, that pictures of yellow buildings can not be featured? --Llez (talk) 11:33, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Not exactly. What I mean is if a white building is illuminated to the point that it looks yellow, then it gives the sense of the picture being overexposed. That does not mean that I would oppose an yellow building.--Snaevar (talk) 15:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm not to keen on the composition, and it looks like taken en passant. Average quality, and white balance issue (a bit too yellow here). Not the best timing to get the shot as well. - Benh (talk) 21:58, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Comment I see chromatic aberrations in the image that I have uploaded, but I don't see that in the image of my computer. I can't understand. It is very difficult to work if I do not know what can later be. Can someone explain that--Miguel Bugallo00:21, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral interesting subject, but masking not as good as usual. Still OK to me given the size and shape. Also why not providing EXIF ? - Benh (talk) 12:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Unable to cut around automatically without losing the "pile ". The trimming was done "by hand". For EXIF, I lost data because of the program and I do not keep them.--Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 12:12, 19 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Minimal visual impact (and as far as I know the original is not notable by itself). Good job, valuable, but not featurable as far as I'm concerned. --99of9 (talk) 01:21, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Great Quality = QI, Useful = maybe VI. QI+VI != FP. We should have higher standards than that for our "finest". --99of9 (talk) 23:31, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Wow, that's strange logic. Where do you think I said that? Are you implying that a map cannot possibly have visual impact or be historically notable? --99of9 (talk) 20:58, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I'm saying it's an old map. It is what it is. And you can't forget that aesthetic tastes have changed in a hundred years and that for certain object there's a higher or lower need for aesthetic presence. A map is not generally even today something people make so that it can be a gloriously beautiful thing, usually it's just meant to serve a utilitarian purpose, but IMO that shouldn't mean it shouldn't be worth any consideration at all. -- One, please.( Thank you.)22:38, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Food photography is definitely a tricky domain. I think in this case the lighting is too harsh, making the white plate too preeminent, and giving harsh reflections on the food. The DOF is not optimal : the focus should have been done more on the foreground (fish) ; not on the sidedish (broccoli). The cook's advice : I would never allow a plate to get to the patron with such an unsightly drop of gravy on the side. It would have taken half a second to wipe off. --MAURILBERT(discuter)23:00, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It's my understanding that a lot of food photography doesn't even use actual food or they spray it with something inedible to reduce the glossiness. :) -- One, please.( Thank you.)20:27, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Canon PowerShot SX130 IS Focal length 8 mm f/4 for 1/500 s ISO 80
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Comment I will make the same comment than last time: no sense of scale whatsoever. It could be a few centimeters high, it could be a set of futuristic seats for the waiting room of a train station... --MAURILBERT(discuter)02:19, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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I used the Windows photo gallery to enhance the image. I used the automatic correction. I'll upload the original image and put it in your talk page. A hug Micael 106 (talk) 23:30, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Sabia que essa regra é fracasso? Eu poderia muito bem entrar sem usuário algum e coloar várias imagens apenas trocando o IP ou acessando de outro computador. Um fracasso. (Sabi that this rule is failure? I could very well go without putting a user and a number of images just by changing the IP or accessing another computer. A failure.)
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I see a little noise in the darker areas particularly in the water and some other places where it does not spoil the image of the ship. Overall, I think the image is quite good. Snowmanradio (talk) 12:56, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Neutral I think this is one of your best yet. Still, there are strange discolourations, and it seems pixelly and grainy (not your fault - camera phones aren't really known for striking quality). The cliff is cut off at the edge as well. Sorry mate, --TheHighFinSpermWhale21:50, 24 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Request to remove the ropes in this picture and in the one below (file:Landsendtyw7.JPG)
Comment Well, since all those images are from the same location and presumably taken from the exact same spot, I do think that stacking the photos to build an panorama would be a good way to go.--Snaevar (talk) 00:51, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support wie schon in der deutschen Wikipedia. The tree at the left is a little bit disturbing, but that's a really irrelevant fact --kaʁstnDisk/Cat15:08, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support maybe a little perspective distorsion on the lamp in the right corner below ? No, I'm kidding. Flawless. An I like it very much. Only a question: Do not we have an already featured picture of this building ?--Jebulon (talk) 16:39, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks. This is likely because of recovering of darker areas. Here is bit desaturated variant. Does it look better? —zedlik (talk) 06:33, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Oversaturated, with obvious unevenness at right and blown highlights on clouds. Ranges from unnatural to almost hallucinatory. Daniel Case (talk) 05:48, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment The sky is dark blue at the left and gradually changes to light blue to the right. Of course, there are several possible explanations for this, but witch one is it?--Snaevar (talk) 16:18, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The sun was just over the right top corner, so the sky looks brighter on the right side, and additionally a polarizing filter makes the sky look darker on the left side. By the way, the sun in the reason why the trees on the left and on the right look a little bit different—those on the right side are in their own shade. —zedlik (talk) 17:00, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support Oversaturated? Quite possibly, but altogether a picture with nice colours and a great landscape imo. So: yes to me. --Danny (talk) 11:40, 27 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Support A imagem é muito bonita e representa bem o vôo da ave, além de estar carregando o graveto no bico o que é uma cena de difícil capturação, Parabéns ao autor da imagem. Inglês -> The picture is very beautiful and well represents the bird's flight, and be carrying the stick in the nozzle which is a difficult scene capturing, Congratulations to the author of the picture. This edit unsigned by User:Micael 106 at 20:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I'm fine with the noise, but it looks off focus, and left wing is in the shadow, making for an unbalanced subject. - Benh (talk) 21:08, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Unsharp, especially at full resolution. There are tons of great photos of Ardea herodias available, and this is not among the best. I would nominate for VI. Steven Walling01:42, 28 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I made some cleanup of original foto, also i try this alternative, due to wingspan i think its better portrait mode. --Mile (talk) 21:32, 23 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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Oppose Good quality, but other than that, I'm not thrilled. Part of the spire is blurry, probably because this is a stitched image with one of the source pictures being blurry - Benh (talk) 21:15, 22 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]