Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Bergtocht van Alp Farur (1940 meter) via Stelli (2383 meter) naar Gürgaletsch (2560 meter) 002.jpg

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File:Bergtocht van Alp Farur (1940 meter) via Stelli (2383 meter) naar Gürgaletsch (2560 meter) 002.jpg, featured[edit]

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  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural # Switserland
  •  Info View from the ridge to Gürgaletsch (2560 meters) on the Hüenerchöpf in the east. All by -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 06:11, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:50, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't think the vertical format suits this. I just want to see more on the left and right. Your "other version" is horizontal but misses out on the interesting ridge. But the sky just looks really strange. The clouds should be brighter. Looking at the EXIF I see you reduced both highlights (-53, perhaps ok) and whites (-50), and did the opposite for the shadows and blacks. Why boost the contrast +26 then? In my experience, dealing with over-bright clouds/snow is best handled by the highlights control alone, and similarly lifting the shadows is best done by the shadows control alone. I find the blacks/whites controls only really give nice results when used to stretch the white/black contrast (i.e. +white and -black, and rarely ever by the amount the Auto setting wants to do). Trying to use the Whites to lower the brightness of clouds just makes them look dull grey. This was taken at midday, so I'd expect the sky to be bright. The white balance is perhaps a little yellow too. -- Colin (talk) 12:49, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Support Oh that's so much happier-looking now. And comparing the other framing-options you added, I'm thinking I like this one better now. A small point, would be to do similar for the blacks and allow those dark crevices on the shadow side of the mountain to go black, rather than having so much of a +black adjustment that there's just a lot of dark-grey. -- Colin (talk) 21:08, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment - I respect Colin's points but would like to support this photo because it's so striking. Agnes, please address his points and maybe edit accordingly, and then I would expect to support. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 17:47, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /PumpkinSky talk 00:02, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural # Switserland
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