Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:On the way to Sedakan way.jpg

File:On the way to Sedakan way.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info One of the WLE Iraq winners from 2015.
•  Info created/uploaded by Mustafa Khayat, nominated by Thennicke -- Thennicke (talk) 08:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Thennicke (talk) 08:14, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Sorry, I like the composition but it's pretty unsharp at full size. I don't think this is of high enough technical quality to be a Featured Picture. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:48, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Awesome scenery, and good composition – a great picture from afar, almost looks like a painting. But something must have went horribly wrong during processing (or GIMP messed up writing the file), as the lower half of the yellow trees on the right shows very strange artefacts. Could probably be fixed through re-processing the original. I'm also a bit puzzled by the settings used (F2.8 @ 1/5000). Shooting wide open doesn't make much sense to me for this scene, stopping down the aperture a bit would probably have yielded much better over-all sharpness. --El Grafo (talk) 10:07, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

• @El Grafo: Sometimes, using a small aperture with focus at ∞ for landscape images can give it that dreamy "painting" look; I'm guilty of doing this myself ([1] [2]). However, I can appreciate that this isn't always desirable for encyclopedic images. As for the processing, I see your point and have taken down the nomination for its technical shortcomings. -- Thennicke (talk) 14:23, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

• @Thennicke: Thanks, that makes sense. It definitely does look dreamy – in so far: mission accomplished. Need to try that myself some time … --El Grafo (talk) 17:57, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

 I withdraw my nomination due to technical issues. -- Thennicke (talk) 14:23, 7 May 2016 (UTC)