Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Outer Hebrides - Lewis, Stornoway, Lews Castle, Sea Gate Lodge - 20190728110529.jpg

File:Outer Hebrides - Lewis, Stornoway, Lews Castle, Sea Gate Lodge - 20190728110529.jpg

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#United Kingdom
•  Info View towards Lews castle and Sea Gate Lodge from downtown Stornoway - Isle of Lewis, Inner Hebrides, U.K. c/u/n by Virtual-Pano -- Virtual-Pano (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Abstain -- Virtual-Pano (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Would benefit from a bottom crop; I think 40% is too much to be taken up by featureless water and would prefer something more along the lines of 20-30%. Also, not the highest pixel-level quality: a bit unsharp and the sharpening seems to have been done at too high of a radius, leading to halos. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 00:38, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

  Thanks for the cropping hint - no sharpening has been applied I forgot to reset sharpening from previous batch before developing Virtual-Pano (talk) 08:34, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Agree with KoH. Too much water currently in my opinion. Also I'm not sure about the composition. While the building looks nice at the left, it's very small in proportion in the image, and the remaining elements (trees, sky, water) are not so interesting -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:08, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose Some posterization in the sky, castle's sharpness is not exceptional, large black areas. The alt, as a closeup, accentuates these issues. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:42, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Ikan. ~Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 15:47, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination let me clear the space for something else --Virtual-Pano (talk) 18:03, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Alt (2:1 crop of full frame)

• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#United Kingdom
•  Info View towards Lews castle and Sea Gate Lodge from downtown Stornoway - Isle of Lewis, Inner Hebrides, U.K. c/u/n by Virtual-Pano --Virtual-Pano (talk) 08:31, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Support - ABAL1412^{🇻🇳🇸🇺🇷🇺} (talk ☭) 09:12, 14 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Better crop but worse colours. Charlesjsharp (talk) 09:36, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

  reverted back to initial white balance Virtual-Pano (talk) 12:17, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Looks more balanced, IHMO. I wanted to vote with support, but I see two issues: (1) The verticals seem to lean in a bit (especially visible at the right); but we are looking almost horizontally at the scene, therefore one would expect vertical verticals. (2) When I look at the photo in full size, it seems somewhat oversharpened to me: the outlines of objects (even of individual branches and stones) are strongly emphasized, while there is almost no detail e.g. on the meadow. This makes the photo look (pardon) a bit like a smartphone shot. Could you consider reducing the sharpening or using another, finer sharpening approach? Sorry for the extra work, but I really think this would improve the image. --Aristeas (talk) 19:36, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for the review and sorry I forgot to apply perspective correction for the 2nd version. PC, crop and sign removal are the only manipulations done for this one. --Virtual-Pano (talk) 22:17, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support Thank you very much, Virtual-Pano! This version looks much better in my eyes; both the perspective and the over-sharpening is fixed. Regarding sharpening it would be best if we could find the happy medium between the versions. A more gentle sharpening (which mostyl increases the microcontrast w/o emphasizing contrast lines) would help. Maybe somebody can give a hint here? --Aristeas (talk) 17:52, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Support ★ 19:28, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose per my comments above. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:42, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Yes, the sky needs reprocessing. Charlesjsharp (talk) 16:12, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

 Done the 2:1 crop has been reprocessed and uploaded --Virtual-Pano (talk) 22:01, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

•  Oppose per my comments above. ~Moheen ^{(keep talking)} 15:46, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
•  I withdraw my nomination let me clear the space for something else --Virtual-Pano (talk) 18:03, 21 October 2023 (UTC)