Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Kosciuszko Main Range from Charlotte Pass 1.jpg
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File:Kosciuszko Main Range from Charlotte Pass 1.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 29 Mar 2017 at 12:35:20 (UTC)
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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
Info The Kosciuszko Main Range and Snowy River as seen from Charlotte Pass lookout, NSW Australia.- Info all by me -- Thennicke (talk) 12:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Support -- Thennicke (talk) 12:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
Oppose On first look I wanted to oppose, then thought about it and was actually writing about why I support it. Something felt off, still, so after taking a good look at it again I noticed that indeed the foreground is sunlit. This is a problem because the contrast for the whole image just doesn't work. One would rightfully expect the sun lit leaves to be much brighter, the grass to be more saturated, and the whole scene to have more life in it in general. However! If this is indeed a faithful representation of how it looked in reality and not an "artistic choice" (ie ps work) I'm prepared to retract my oppose and even change it to support. If the look is indeed a choice then sorry, I don't like it. -- KennyOMG (talk) 19:35, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
- It was a cloudy day, so no direct sunlight was involved - what you may be perceiving is that the vegetation actually changes in the distance to a darker shade, with mosses and bog. This is as faithful to reality as I could make it, I assure - I am not a fan of overprocessed images. -- Thennicke (talk) 02:53, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- Look in the foreground. The people walking and the tree next to them have a semi-definied shadow, but the branches closer to the camera cast a clearly defined, dark shadow on other branches. The overall effect looks like someone pulled the highlights down a lot, which pushes it to surreal category in my head. Otherwise I like both the comp and the atmosphere of the upper part of the image. In any case (unfortunately) I think it won't matter much whether I strike this oppose or not. :\ -- KennyOMG (talk) 14:23, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose - I like the composition with the 3 streams, and I think it would be featurable in the right light, but in my opinion, not in this gray light. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:17, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- I guess, as an Australian, where it is almost always sunny, this kind of light is actually special to me (and emblematic of our rare alpine ecosystems), but I understand your perspective -- Thennicke (talk) 02:53, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- I can understand yours, too. When I visited London during the summer in 2010, when my girlfriend and I were hanging out with a Londoner, he specially picked a sunny table for us to sit at, whereas in New York, we always seek out shade. It's all a matter of perspective. But I'd love to see this view during a sunset or sunrise. Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:52, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- Reluctant oppose While I love the idea of matching an atypical landscape for an area with atypical light, especially when said atypical light is actually more typical of that landscape where it is more common, this comes out just too flat, with detail hard to distinguish. Daniel Case (talk) 06:20, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination -- Thennicke (talk) 08:21, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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