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File:OY-DIZ SAI KZ IV landing Danish Air Show 2014-06-23.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SAI KZ IV
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 11:30, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info The only still functional KZ IV ambulance aircraft with registration OY-DIZ landing at Danish Air Show 2014. Built by Skandinavisk Aero Industri with first flight on May 4, 1944. Restored to its wartime configuration after a crash in 1977. In 1949, the OY-DIZ was christened with the name Folke Bernadotte in honour of the Swedish count who had used this very aircraft to make a diplomatic visit to Germany to negotiate for the release of Danish prisoners in German concentration camps near the end of the war. For more information about the technical circumstances of the photo, see this discussion from EN FPC, where it has just been promoted.
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 11:30, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Too much grass however you can't crop it more because it is already promoted in EN FPC and already a cropped picture (and maybe you don't want). -- Christian Ferrer Talk 21:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC) and the 131mm increase (IMO) the effect of the perspective and give too much importance to the grass. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 21:38, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for you review. No, I will not change the crop in this file, because it is already featured elsewhere, but of course I could upload a new file, which was cropped. But I like the grass as it is. Gives balance to the composition in my opinion in accordance with rule of thirds. --Slaunger (talk) 21:49, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Christian Ferrer: You mention how the 131 mm focal length affects the perspective (in I suppose a bad way). I am sorry, but can you elaborate? What would have been a better focal length in your opinion? --Slaunger (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It is not necessarily the focal length the problem, here it is more the association of this focal lenght and this centring and/or crop that makes the composition a little bit unbalenced, I feel as a baby fox who is obliged to raise the head by above herbs to see the plane. In summary the grass is here an obstacle to the reading of the image. How to avoid all this : if I find an answer be sure that I shall tell it you. The no-cropped version is better IMO -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:27, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And if you possess a 200mm or higher of course it would have been better. And if you don't have a 200 or 300mm, a photo one or two seconds before, with the plane a bit more in the sky (=less grass) would maybe have been better. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:32, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And in more there is only horizontal lines (plane, grass, sky, background) whitch is certainly increase by your choice of crop....I go to sleep....:) -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Christian Ferrer: Thanks for your detailed response, Christian. I really appreciate that:) The lens I used was actually a 250 mm, and I could have zoomed more, if I were better at panning:) But I wonder if the end result perspective-wise isn't approximately the same after cropping at 131 mm? It was not really possible for me to get a photo when approaching, due to the presence of very enthusiastic aviation photographers with huge tele lenses standing on small ladders and partially obstructing my view:) You could argue, correctly, that if I had been a bit more pro, I would also have brought a small ladder, and I would have arrived as early as possible to get the best possible position, but this was my first air show photographing. Anyway, sleep well, Christian. --Slaunger (talk) 23:16, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Slaunger, to develop just a little more my point of view the comparison with the image above is very well. The both images have a centered position of the main subject, the house with the first and the plane with yours. The both images have also 1/3 of sky, 1/3 subject and 1/3 grass on the foreground. However on the first the use of 50mm give an effect of depth. It is typical of the telephoto lens of to crash the different areas (background, subject, foreground, ...). In this one you can see how focal length affects perspective and in more in this exemple we see only 18, 34 and 55mm, imagine with 130, 200mm... -- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Christian Ferrer: Thanks for taking your time to elaborate further. I understand much better now what your point is. I do not agree it is a problem in the nominated photo, but I understand what you see as being the problem with the focal length. Anyway, not really something I can change in the nomineated photo, so either you like it as it is or not. And it appears most don't really care, actually, as there are no votes yet. --Slaunger (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 16:15, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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