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Glamaig from Rubha nam Brathairean, Isle of Skye
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
  •  Info This is Glamaig, part of the Red Cuillin hills on the Isle of Skye. Normally photographed from the nearby glens (from where it often takes a conical appearance), this unusual view is taken from 33km (20 miles) north at Rubha nam Brathairean (Brothers Point). This rocky peninsular affords a view directly south down the coast of Skye taking in various headlands along the way (which are 11, 22 and 28km distant). The telephoto lens (equivalent to 450mm on a full-frame camera) compresses the perspective. Normally, such a distant view would look hazy (see this version), but when processed using Lightroom's new dehaze feature (along with other adjustments) a much clearer picture emerges. The result is quite grainy, and I've deliberately not applied NR to remove it. I hope you appreciate the layered landscape, the composition, and the sea birds soaring among the majestic hills of Skye. All by Colin. -- Colin (talk) 22:30, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • To get an idea of what the view is seeing, compressed, go to Bing Maps UK and select the "Ordnance Survey Map" from the drop-down (don't know if this is available outside UK). UK mapping is divided into a grid and Rubha nam Brathairean is in the column between 52 and 53. If you follow that column south for 20 miles then you reach Glamaig. Alternatively look at File:Ordnance Survey 1-250000 - NG.jpg, which isn't quite so detailed and uses a larger grid, and find the square six along and four down, then follow that down four squares. -- Colin (talk) 07:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Colin (talk) 22:30, 13 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Yes! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 00:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose overprocessed. --Ivar (talk) 05:35, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose too noisy because too overprocessed. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:49, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Processing was necessary to achieve this image at all, with any camera in any weather or time of year. 33km is three times further away than if you were cruising in a jet aircraft and nearly twice as far away as Concorde flew up. I know it is easy to pick technical faults (and the image is not downsized at all, merely cropped) but doesn't it still make an image with wow? -- Colin (talk) 07:23, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • My advice: please wait for a better "century weather" to have a better and dust free view. And additional: the composition and your clipping doesn't works for me too: to tide crop at all. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 07:29, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • I don't understand what you mean by "century weather". There is room in the source image to vertically show more clouds if people feel that helps, but I didn't think they added anything useful here. -- Colin (talk) 08:17, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose too noisy, bad colors --Ralf Roleček 08:40, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Kikos (talk) 09:03, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • You said you didn't want to go through all the stress again, but this one is going to get you some. It has wow to me. But your first crop was more interesting I think. The left part you added (or put back) doesn't add anything IMO. It draws the eyes away from the beautiful area. I'm not sure what you mean by not NRing it : Did you not NRed it at all? If yes I think it was wrong. It's too noisy as it is, and there are other pictures of the same kind which are better from that point of view. It also might be short on contrast a bit, but that might just be me. And yes sometimes it's a matter of getting the right weather / light so you don't have to overcook it to get the desired results. Easier to say it than to see it. - Benh (talk) 10:09, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Oh, I never said I didn't want a challenging FPC ever again, just not two simultaneously or consecutively. Life is boring if you are perfect like Diliff :-). Better to try new things? Yes I thought the first crop was a better composition, and the bird was more significant, but I thought the image had more educational value showing the whole mountain. I quite liked the grainy image that arose, more painterly than Zeiss Otus sharp. Hmm, I suspect if NRed it would need downsized to look acceptable. I'll look at it again tonight. -- Colin (talk) 11:04, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. I see what you were trying to achieve here and given the original image you were working with it's not a bad attempt, but I don't think the dehaze tool is as revolutionary as many people seem to saying recently. The results, both here and elsewhere, and from my experience in using it, are not very convincing to me. Or maybe the praise for the dehaze tool is because (apart from the poor implementation of HDR merging) it's the only new feature in Lightroom 6. ;-) The use of it is unfortunately is a poor substitute for genuinely dramatic lighting which I think is necessary to compensate for the relatively poor image quality. Diliff (talk) 11:44, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I give you credit, Colin, for the lengths you went to to make this a usable image, but the noise is just far too strong for me to give the image a break (I do wish there was some way we could recognize things like this, though). Daniel Case (talk) 16:06, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination Benh, I had a go removing the noise but didn't like the result -- the rocks lost their texture. I prefer the result of simply downsizing the image, if desired. -- Colin (talk) 19:00, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Exciting scenery, really impressive! Allow me to say this even though voting has come to an end. --Tremonist (talk) 14:05, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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