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File:EON Ruhrgas Blaue Stunde Winter 2014.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Headquarters of E.ON Ruhrgas in Essen photographed at Blue hour
  •  Info all by Tuxyso -- Tuxyso (talk) 21:20, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Tuxyso (talk) 21:20, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --XRay talk 06:35, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose No wow to me, especially not much of "Blue Hour" effect, I think the sky is still too bright. Sorry. Slightly tilted CW. --Kreuzschnabel 08:06, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Thanks for the review, Kreuzschnabel. I made moderate vertical corrections should be OK now. The case with the brightness of the sky is more difficult than it seems to be at the first glance. The building is situated near the town center of Essen - a very densely built area. Thus every blue hour photo massively suffers from light pollution. The time of the photo is already at the end of the blue hour. The building itself is not directly illuminated as it is the case with typical blue hour photos of e.g. important historical buildings - thus I used only the available light. Additionaly I tried to photograph the surrounding trees and the small pond with the winterscape in a way that there are still details visible although only less light reached those deeper parts of the photo - I did that by HDRI technique (forgot to add this info to this photo). I do not expect from you to flip the vote, but probably you do better understand my considerations during taking and editing this photo. --Tuxyso (talk) 21:25, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose the foreground is too dark (maybe too much of black) also the WB is far too blue IMO -- ChristianFerrer 21:40, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • ✓ Done, Christian, I made some local WB adjustments. A global WB on white snow in shadow areas would lead to a red/orange sky. Shadow parts have always a tendency to look a bit blueish - you can only compensate it by doing a local white balance. I also further brightened the foreground. Please take another look --Tuxyso (talk) 11:02, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed it's an improvment but not enough for my tastes. I've tried on my PC, and you've got very good details in the shadows with a general brightening (shadows, black, dark levels..). And for the sky you have IMO a large margin before it become red/orange, and in more a sky a bit red/orange will be not unatural here IMO. And... best wishes Tuxyso :) -- ChristianFerrer 13:32, 1 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Yann (talk) 13:21, 9 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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