Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Lifeguard, Sydney, Australia.jpg
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File:Lifeguard, Sydney, Australia.jpg[edit]
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 21 Sep 2014 at 02:34:43 (UTC)
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Info created/uploaded/nominated by Christopher Crouzet -- Christopher Crouzet (talk) 02:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Support -- Christopher Crouzet (talk) 02:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Oppose Oversaturated. -- -donald- (talk) 12:25, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- In my defense, I don't like post-processing and keep it to a minimum. From what I remember it already came out quite saturated when scanning the negative but I currently don't have access to the original file to verify it. Also it was a very sunny day in Sydney, the lifeguards there definitely wear flashy colors, and as for the color of the ocean, you can search Google Images for “Bondi Beach” and check by yourself. In short, I might be wrong as we all know how our minds are good at playing us tricks, but that's close enough from how I remember the moment. -- Christopher Crouzet (talk) 12:46, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose Too small (not special enough to barely crawl over the 2 mpx threshold), vignetting, channel overexposure. And I fail to see anything special (featurable) in a person seen from the back, I miss some "message". Sorry. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 15:51, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
- Oppose Not wow, sorry Jiel (talk) 11:34, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination Well, it seems that my tastes in photography highly differ from everyone else over here. I'm wondering why I even bothered to post a colorful, fresh and lively scene that portrays the exercise of a job in a specific country with an original point of view and that tells a story between a group of persons. It obviously doesn't have as much impact as a bunch of bricks, a flower, a poster, or a couple of lemons. Fair enough, I'm finally starting to get a better grasp of photography, and I'll be happy to send you those from now on. Oh, and I'm really sorry to have posted a picture which barely goes above the 2 millions of pixels—I'll know for next time that 2 millions actually means 20 millions, thanks. -- Christopher Crouzet (talk) 12:05, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think that you should be so bitter about it. Firstly, I guess the fact is that this is at the end of the day the platform used for illustrating wikipedia. Most people here mainly shoot objects and are thus more able to judge those subjects than the more people-focused shot that you post (at least this is true for me). Personally, I simply don't find this image very compelling, partially due to the technical factors (vignette, oversaturation, crop) but more due to the subject, but perhaps simply a matter of taste. When I look at your flickr, I think that you have many more powerful images. Perhaps they will not be FP or are not ideal for commons, but don't stop trying here from time to time. --DXR (talk) 14:27, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
- If you don't mind, I would be really interested to know which ones of my photos you consider as being more powerful, as it is exactly the kind of feedback that I'm looking for in order to improve my photography. And despite of having joined a few online communities, I've been struggling to receive any proper feedback so far—my last hopes being currently in 1x.com which I've just joined recently. Cheers! -- Christopher Crouzet (talk) 19:11, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
