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Comment - I'm impressed that you avoided star trails completely, but could you please talk about the shape of the moon? I thought I was looking at some kind of eclipse, as the light and dark parts of the moon don't form a circular shape together. I like the rest of the picture but wish the upper crop of the trees on the left were less random-looking. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Image with very short exposure
Hi Ikan Kekek: I can't say much conserning shape of the moon. This is exactley how the camera the moon caputured. Look at the example image with the very short exposure. To retouch this eclipse-effect is not really difficult, but is it so distracting? Why do you think the crop is random? The image object is clearly defined: tower on the right side, the far away cityscape on the left side connected by the river rhine. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, the strange shape of the moon is distracting to me, or I wouldn't have mentioned it, and for what it's worth, I don't see it in the short-exposure picture. The crop looks random on the trees on the left side of the picture, not above the building. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 01:31, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The image example with the short exposure was to demonstrate the moon-shape taken by the camera. Sadly you don't argue why the crop should be random. Do you want more or less trees? The trees on the left enframe the image in my opinion, I see no need to chance this, sorry. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:31, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't tell you to change the crop of the trees. Not all my comments require action. However, I would need for the moon to look more normal for me to consider supporting this photo. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 04:52, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You asked what I meant about the crop of the trees, so I'll try to explain. The trees have a very jagged shape. If there were a way to either include their tops or crop them in a way that seems satisfying (such that some thought about the uppermost shapes clearly was taken, however that could be done), I'd consider that superior. I'm looking again, and yeah, the moon really bothers me because it looks like a partial eclipse of the sun by the moon. But again, high praise for your stars! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:10, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
The trees look like they are looking after being cut in autumn-time the year before. Either the trees nor the shape of the moon are main objects of this image and I can't understand how they are distracting the whole image. But there is no need that we agree. If other users also mention that the moon-shape is disturbing I'll retouch it, but for the shape of the trees I'm not liable and I like this shape. --Wladyslaw (talk) 05:51, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Because I look at the entire picture, not just whatever the photographer may think their subject was. I didn't say I insist you do anything with the trees. I may feel impelled to vote against what's otherwise a very nice picture because of the weird moon, and in spite of the great stars, though. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:09, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support the moon is a bit weird but you don't have to retouch it imo, it's not that important an element here. I like the composition and image quality very much. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:38, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - Looking again, I think I see a dust spot just below the upper rightmost tree branch. Please fix that (even if you won't fix the moon). -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
You have to look at the picture at full size. It's a black spot under the downward curve in a branch off the upper rightmost branch. I don't know how to mark a dustspot. How do I do it? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 16:49, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This wasn't a dustspot but a bird or s.th. like that. Dustspots are regulary not so black and much more bigger. I have erased it nevertheless. But for the image impression/quality it is irrelevant IMO. For the Annotation tool look at Help:Gadget-ImageAnnotator. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:32, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Info all by Wladyslaw -- Wladyslaw (talk) 19:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Support -- Wladyslaw (talk) 19:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Comment - I'm impressed that you avoided star trails completely, but could you please talk about the shape of the moon? I thought I was looking at some kind of eclipse, as the light and dark parts of the moon don't form a circular shape together. I like the rest of the picture but wish the upper crop of the trees on the left were less random-looking. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
