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File:Fuente del Tritón, La Valeta, isla de Malta, Malta, 2021-08-25, DD 222-224 HDR.jpg, not featured[edit]
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Info View of Tritons' Fountain during the blue hour, Valletta, Malta Island, Malta. The fountain, located just outside the City Gate of Valletta, consists of three bronze Tritons holding up a large basin, balanced on a concentric base built out of concrete and clad in travertine slabs. The fountain is one of Malta's most important Modernist landmarks and was designed and constructed between 1952 and 1959 by eminent sculptor Chevalier Vincent Apap and his collaborator draughtsman Victor Anastasi. The sculptural group collapsed in 1978 and was repaired between 1986 and1987. In 2017 it underwent the last renovation works. c/u/n by me, Poco a poco (talk) 13:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 13:29, 5 October 2021 (UTC)- Support Very strong image quality, sharp even at full size, and nice golden light. I wish the crops at the sides were a bit less abrupt but this is probably the best you can do in a single frame. Btw, the word is 'underwent', not 'undergoed'. Cmao20 (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks, corrected, Poco a poco (talk) 15:10, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
Oppose Doesn't compare well to our FP fountains, which have WOW! For a start, the water is barely visible, especially at the top. The triton figures in the middle are badly lit and small in the frame. Yes there is resolution from the camera, but the image as a whole isn't FP. The building on the right and the vendor stalls are distracting, and there are ghosts and on the right there are HDR artefacts. Let's compare some others... File:Triton Fountain Valletta Malta.jpg has the most amazing colours, subject isolation and the water is beautifully lit. File:Triton Fountain Modern Valletta.jpg makes me think the figures are having a splash in the sun, and water is excellently backlit and frozen with a fast shutter to sparkle like diamonds. File:The Fountain Club.jpg shows Pride colours and the whole fountain and reflections in the wet pavement. And File:Glorious Triton and LGBTQI rights.jpg shows it can be taken without people. Silhouette is popular: File:Tritons Fountain in Valletta.jpg, File:TRITON FOUNTAIN MALTA.jpg and File:Triton Fountain II.jpg. File:The Triton Fountain.jpg has simpler lighting and stars and captures the whole fountain without distractions. While all those have some technical issues, all of them have some spark of creative wow that is lacking here and which is needed for FP. -- Colin (talk) 16:45, 5 October 2021 (UTC)- Oppose Composition problem. --Mile (talk) 20:17, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose I think 16mm might not have been the greatest idea here, as the ultra wide angle makes the statues appear much smaller than they really are. I'm normally fine with distorted proportions and the like if it feels like an artistic choice that serves a purpose, but I can't really see the point here. In general, I'll have to agree with Colin regarding lack of WOW. --El Grafo (talk) 13:40, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
Weak support Ironically, it is in particular Poco’s own wonderful photographs of fountains that have set the bar so high that we now accord no ‘wow’ anymore to beautiful but not quite as dramatic shots of fountains (7 or so of our fountains FPs are by Poco). We now expect wonders of light and colours when somebody nominates a photo of an illuminated fountain. But wonders do not always mean good quality (which, besides the ‘wow’, should still be a criterion for FPs); for example, many of our other photos of this Tritons’ Fountain may have much effect, but also have serious shortcomings (more than one of the cited photos is tilted, some have halos, are obviously overprocessed, simply unsharp etc.). Therefore when I take a step back and look again at this photo it is IMHO still a very good photo of the Tritons’ Fountain and also really impresses me, just in another, more subtle way. What remains are the question whether another angle of view would have been even better (as explained very well by El Grafo) and the HDR problems at the right (black areas, should be fixable). --Aristeas (talk) 16:22, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for your comment, Aristeas, it was a good reminder. Indeed, I counted them, it's 7 FPs of fountains. Reading the feedback of some reviewers here I've something the impression that either I forgot all I learnt or all FPs so far were a kind of gift thank to a favorable star constellation... --Poco a poco (talk) 12:49, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Weak oppose per Colin. I actually like the fact that the colors here are not quite so strong. But they would work better with a bluer sky. Daniel Case (talk) 04:23, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Poco a poco (talk) 11:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 3 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Poco a poco (talk) 11:47, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
