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Mønsted limestone mines
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info An illuminated path in the largest limestone mine in the world, Mønsted limestone mine in Denmark. The limestone mine has been excavated over a period of almost 1000 years from the early 11th century untill 1978, mainly by using pickaxes or other handheld tools. The mine has over 60 km paths of which 2 km are illuminated. Some paths are like huge halls, others not passageable by a grown man. In the path shown here is clearly seen how thick layers of limestone alternate with thin layers of flint. The photo itself is an exposure fusion between three bracketed exposures with exposure times of 6, 15 and 30 seconds using CA corrected raw files as input into PTgui. In hindsight, I should have had an even shorther exposure time on the most underexposed photo as the point light sources are slightly burnt in even the 6 sec exposure. Done with an aperture of f/10 and ISO 200 (if i go higher I begin to introduce notieable noise with my camera). I have spend a great deal of time playing around with the exposure fusion to highlight the layered structure, which is not quite as evident when you are in the mines, as well as make the representation faithful. It appears lighter than it really is, as the light sources are weak. A ghost is seen in the long time exposure shot wearing a handheld lamp leaving a light trail. Almost unavoidable due to many guests in the mines.
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Yann (talk) 09:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 20:27, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --XRay talk 06:19, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Rjcastillo (talk) 14:04, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Alex Florstein (talk) 16:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The encyclopedic value of such a shot is undoubtedly high, your explanation is very interesting and one can guess that the shooting conditions were challenging.. But from a pure photographic viewpoint I cannot see FP aspects here: I cannot get a compositional idea, the motive is visually not interesting (no interesting stone formations, no interesting colors), the bright lights distracts from the structure of the mine which should be the main motive. --Tuxyso (talk) 08:03, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Tuxyso: Thanks for taking your time to review the photo and provide a detailed explanation. A photo of a limestone mine will of course be rather limestone colored all over with no particularly interesting stones. I think the layer formation between limestone and flint is quite notable in the photo formed in a surprisingly complicated process. But of course, taste differs, and I respect you do not think it has it. --Slaunger (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak  Support. I share a few concerns with Tuxyso, namely the lack of interesting colours or rock formations, although I am still wowed enough by the image to support. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 00:56, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 7 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:45, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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