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File:Hestskjær fyr i storm fra Nordvest.jpg, featured[edit]
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- Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Towers#Norway
Info This is the WLM winner from Norway. I love how the muted color palette gives a feeling of calm that contrasts with the force of the storm. And of course I always love lighthouses in storms. Created and uploaded by Marianne Johnsen - nominated by Kritzolina -- Kritzolina (talk) 09:22, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Support -- Kritzolina (talk) 09:22, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
Comment Is this the version that won? It's very noisy. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:04, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Yes, it is the winning picture Kritzolina (talk) 08:55, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 10:04, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support Definitely support! I'm actually impressed with the quality, considering that it is taken from about a kilometer away (the land closest to the island) in one of the worst weather conditions on the planet. With all of the North Atlantic pressing down on you, blocking the light with clouds and saltwater flying everywhere in the air, it's a struggle just to stand upright, let alone handling a camera. You can't compare the noise level with a photo taken on a calm, warm day down south. Attempting to reduce the noise here will get a loss in details and you lose that authentic gritty feel the photo has. --Cart (talk) 10:49, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support ★ 15:54, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support per Cart. Atmospheric and beautiful Cmao20 (talk) 21:16, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- Ivar (talk) 08:20, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Milseburg (talk) 08:58, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 10:33, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 11:55, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Neutral -- difficult to assess this one for me. On the one hand, dramatic scenery, and Cart has a valid point. On the other, it's really very grainy. Additionally, the camera coordinates are false, it's the location of the lighthouse instead. --A.Savin 14:05, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Fixed, coordinates given by the author converted to 'object location'. Camera location is estimated by the angle and this photo taken a few minutes later, where you have a skerry in the foreground. Re the quality, I can only refer to the time I took this photo, and you can see how blurry it is from all the noise reduction, even though the object was right in front of me, not 1 km away. Taking photos like this, is like being inside a saltwater fog and they get noisy because of that. --Cart (talk) 15:01, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support Great scene, certainly one of the best of the WLM 2023 winners. Personally I prefer a little noise by a large margin to smushy photographs damaged by hefty noise reduction. --Aristeas (talk) 15:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
Oppose I think it has been sharpened too much. Too many artefacts. --Njardarlogar (talk) 15:38, 1 January 2024 (UTC)- Support --Llez (talk) 09:10, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 16:46, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support A clear case of wow factor over technical quality. Surely a rare shot taken in difficult conditions. -- Radomianin (talk) 15:37, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Giles Laurent (talk) 19:19, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support --Laitche (talk) 16:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
Result: 15 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /-- Radomianin (talk) 13:04, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Towers#Norway
