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File:Church of St. Anne, Shandon.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Church of St. Anne in Shandon, Cork City, Ireland
  • Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Religious buildings
  •  Info created, uploaded, and nominated by Podstawko --  Podstawko  ●talk  06:40, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral. I'm abstaining from voting as the author. What you see is the north side of Cork City, with the conspicuous St. Anne's Church, aka Shandon Bells, aka "Four Faced Liar" because each face of the clock shows a different hour. The image was taken last Saturday (Oct. 28, 2023) morning, and is selected out of over a hundred frames I shot from before sunrise till 9am or so. The clouds had been building up in the background for a long while before taking the shape I found balanced enough. The decision for centered composition is deliberate here, and I carefully picked the vantage spot and positioned the camera with "pixel precision" using a geared head. There is no post-processing cropping. CPL filter was used to make clouds more pronounced. Curves, local adjustments, and cleanup of unwanted spots close to edges was done in post-processing. Most of my shots in this series were at ISO100, but I quickly switched to ISO800 (kudoz to Canon's Fv mode which rocks!) when I saw the Ryanair airplane approaching the Cork Airport, to freeze it. I think it plays well with the clouds. It had already started to rain when I took this picture, and then it poured... all my equipment was soaking by the time I found shelter.
  •  Strong support - ABAL1412🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺 (talk ☭) 07:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment very nice mood, but quality seems not up to FP standards in terms of sharpness and noise. Tomer T (talk) 09:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Excess noise. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:13, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • @W.carter and Podstawko: Glad we got everything sorted out. And I'm giving this image my  Support. —Percival Kestreltail (talk) 03:14, 3 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info Text, comments and votes below this line may be related to the mistakenly created 'Alt'. Please cast (or move) your votes above it. --Cart (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Tomer T's and SHB2000's make sense in the Wikimedia informative context. The grainy "look" may be pleasing aesthetically but is not adding merit. I have now denoised the picture, and brightened (just a tad as not to lose the mood) -- please check it out.
  •  Oppose Underexposed, boring centered composition and weird colours. I think this image just hasn't the potential for FP, no matter how many fixes you'll add on top. - Benh (talk) 20:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Mr. Rasel Hasan (talk) 11:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Are you offering this verion as an 'Alternative' on your nomination? If so, you have to make this part a proper sub-section to your nomination, Look at how other noms with 'Alts' are made. This has to be done for voting clarity as well as for the FPCBot to be able to later close the nom correctly. If the version is just an example image, you can only show it as a link. Please fix this. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 12:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Underexposed & per Benh. The plane is too big to be just overlooked but too small to make the composition. — Draceane talkcontrib. 12:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thanks Cart, I have now marked the image as "Alternative version", I hope this fixes the problem, but please let me know if anything else needs to be corrected.
Thanks! Almost correct. See minor fixes in diff. --Cart (talk) 14:05, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @Cart!  Podstawko  ●talk  14:17, 1 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ah! Thanks —Percival Kestreltail, you are perfectly correct. I didn't dig that deep. I just saw the two images and assumed they were two different files, my bad. A new version uploaded on top of the original nomination, is not regarded as an alterative. I'll restore this to a normal nomination. Podstawko is fairly new here and doesn't know all our procedural quirks. The option for an "Alt" is only for separate files, not versions uploaded on the same file page. I'm also 'pinging' @Mr. Rasel Hasan and Draceane: and Benh, who's votes happened to fall on the invalid 'Alt' to see if their votes still stand. (every time something is altered on a nom or image, previous voters should be informed.) --Cart (talk) 16:34, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks @Kestreltail and @W.carter, looks like I totally messed up that Alt thing. Indeed I'm new here. I'll be more careful the next time I propose an alternative version.  Podstawko  ●talk  20:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:15, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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