Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Abandoned Virginia farmhouse in Creeds LR.jpg

File:Abandoned Virginia farmhouse in Creeds LR.jpg, not featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture#United_States
• Abandoned Virginia farmhouse in Creeds. All by me. -- PumpkinSky talk 03:31, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- PumpkinSky talk 03:31, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Support A decaying testimony of better times. I am fond of the implementation. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:04, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Question What's up with the sky at the top? --A.Savin 04:12, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Even if you fix the striations in the sky, this is not a great composition in my eyes, though the subject is interesting. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:34, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment Looks like you added a bit of sky by stretching out the pixels at the top. (Or?) It's better to use the Content Aware Fill in sections plus a clone brush. I also think this is a subject that would be better for closeups or crazy angles. One thing that ruins the "abandoned house" look is the car. It might be yours, I don't know how many times I've set up my camera only to find that I parked in the wrong place so I'd have to move the car and start over. --cart-Talk 08:59, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Quality shot, if you solve sky. Car and composition arent so good. Or, i would put whole car, more to right side, car and house would be good. --Mile (talk) 09:40, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
• @W.carter, PetarM, Ikan Kekek, A.Savin, and Johann Jaritz: Cart is right, I tried to do a border extension on the sky because I thought the original shot had the top too close to the highest tree (see photo's first upload). If consensus is that the orginal border is ok, I can revert back. The car is not mine, so I can't move it, so I used content aware to clone it out. It seems to have worked rather well IMHO. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks for the inputs. PumpkinSky talk 12:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
• PumpkinSky If you remove smudge and wirers i Support. But if car was yours, i would go back park car near and one more shot. You lost EXIF. --Mile (talk) 14:43, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @PetarM: Car is not mine. EXIF was lost because I had to edit it in Photoshop. Where is the smudge you're talking about? PumpkinSky talk 14:47, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
• PumpkinSky see notation, hold some second on photo. --Mile (talk) 14:52, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
  • Ah, I see the smudge now. I'll work on that and the power lines when I get back to my photo computer, which will be several hours from now. PumpkinSky talk 14:58, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

•  Comment @PumpkinSky: a) I don't mind the car, but if you want to remove it, do it accurately; there is blur and some parts of the car still visible. b) On the sky, there are still some cloning marks at the right top. c) If you want to keep EXIF data despite of photoshopping, simply put the edited picture over the original and save it. --A.Savin 17:00, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
  • @A.Savin: I'm not sure what you mean by "put the edited picture over the original and save it". Here's what I did on this photo, can you tell me what step to change and how: a) edited in LR b) saved to a jpg and upload to Commons (has EXIF data) c) from LR, opened into PS and edited d) saved the file to the same jpg from LR and uploaded the new version to Commons. Thanks. PumpkinSky talk 17:13, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
    • Well, if you edit your raw data with LR, you have an output JPG file which should still have EXIF data. This file you can edit in PS. Then you have two possibilities: a) you do only retouche etc. but keep the original crop; this means you can save the result and you still have your EXIF. b) You have to make a different crop. If you save the crop, the EXIF is lost, but now the trick I meant: copy the crop, replace the original picture by it, and save it as output file. In this case, the EXIF are not lost. I don't know how to explain it better; if you're still not sure, just try it out. --A.Savin 17:21, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose QI for sure, but unexciting front view of a house. Daniel Case (talk) 20:42, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Comment I really do appreciate all the input. But after removing the smudge and cropping the car out in LR, when I went to PS to do the power lines and border, it never quite comes out the way I want. So I've leaving the photo as it is in the version I uploaded a few minutes ago. It can sink or swim as is. PumpkinSky talk 22:27, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
•  Oppose Doesn't really move me, to be honest. The top crop is too tight for my taste as well.--Peulle (talk) 08:00, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination PumpkinSky talk 12:05, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /PumpkinSky talk 14:06, 14 December 2017 (UTC)