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•  Info Château de Pierreclos with its church (12^th century), all by: Palauenc05 (talk) 20:18, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Palauenc05 (talk) 20:18, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Support -- Karelj (talk) 12:30, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Oppose - OK for QI + VI but does not have enough FP wow for me. Also buildings at both sides seem to be leaning out. --GRDN711 (talk) 00:31, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Weak support Support Nice and beautiful view of the castle. The verticals are leaning in different directions, so I guess the old walls are just not straight in reality. But at some places the edge of the roofs and the chimneys are unsharp; I guess that some mask (denoising the sky/sharpening the building) is a bit imprecise there. Could you try to optimize this a bit? Thank you! --Aristeas (talk) 09:57, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment @ Aristeas: Thanks for your advice. I'll try and find the raw file and see what I can do. But it will take until the weekend until I have time to do it. Regards --Palauenc05 (talk) 07:14, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

• Thank you very much! Sorry for the extra work, but IHMO the photo is worth it. --Aristeas (talk) 18:51, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment I like the subject and the lighting but why is the cross over the tower on the right kind of faded away? the same applies to the top of the tree on the right. Furthermore it looks a bit overprocessed to me, the roofs for example look unrealistic Poco a poco (talk) 19:03, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment Regarding the cross and the tree top: IMHO this is the same issue as noted above, i.e. probably some mask needs fine-tuning. --Aristeas (talk) 19:07, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

* Yup, I agree. The false detail on the roofs and walls, plus the sharpening mask inaccuracies are usually telltale signs of an AI algorithm going overboard. Could that be the case, Palauenc05? No EXIF to double-check, but I would venture to say that Topaz is the culprit :) --Julesvernex2 (talk) 07:43, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

•  Comment As I said, I can't do anything until the weekend. --Palauenc05 (talk) 11:02, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
•  Neutral per Poco and others. I do like the lighting though ... what would be harsh and flattening most of the day here actually works well with the walls' color at golden hour. Wish there was .EXIF data so we knew whether this was morning or evening, though. Daniel Case (talk) 17:42, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

 New version! Thanks for all your comments and hints. I've upladed a new version from the raw file and applied just small corrections. Some aspects should be explained:
- These walls are not straight at all, esp. if you look at the chimney in the middle or at the kink in the lower part of the wall of the main tower.
- @ Poco I didn't touch the roofs at all, they just look like that. I suppose, the appearance comes from centuries of weathering and the growth of fungi and mosses.
- @ Daniel The shot was taken on an October late afternoon.
- Thank you all for looking again. --Palauenc05 (talk) 11:07, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

•  Support. Very nice, atmospheric photo, very good composition and technically flawless -- Spurzem (talk) 09:46, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Thank you very much for the improvements, Palauenc05! Changed my vote above to full support. --Aristeas (talk) 05:43, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

• Aristeas I took out this vote, since you already had one above --Julesvernex2 (talk) 11:50, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

• Thank you very much, Julesvernex2. I hesitated a moment where I should add the new support vote; in the end I wanted to mark this one as a mere comment, but forgot to do so. --Aristeas (talk) 18:29, 3 April 2023 (UTC)

•  Support --Julesvernex2 (talk) 11:50, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --Princess Rosalina 🍵 479161 12:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
•  Support --MZaplotnik^(talk) 11:10, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
•  Support Looking better, the cross is not faded anymore and I like the tigther crop, too. Poco a poco (talk) 19:43, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 8 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:25, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Castles and fortifications#France