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Info created by Christian Ferrer - uploaded by Christian Ferrer - nominated by Christian Ferrer -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:44, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Support -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:44, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Oppose The tree isn't sufficiently isolated from its surrounds to make a great specimen, nor is the composition particularly interesting to achieve sufficient wow. The lighting is also quite hard. But what have you done to it in post? It looks like the image has been oversharpened. The fine twigs are twigs are jaggy with each pixel step and there's a pattern over the lower-left tree. There's so much colour noise dancing about the edge of the tree which mysteriously vanishes out in the sky. Have you turned off the colour noise reduction in Lightroom? The default of 25 (at least in my LR4) is usually required -- all digital photos have colour noise, even at iso 100, that needs suppressed. Have you painted over the sky with NR or blur -- it is hard to do this convincingly with an erratic outline. I suggest you try instead reducing sharpening considerably and using a bit of Lightroom's sharpening mask slider to avoid sharpening noise in the sky. When you adjust Lighrtoom's sharpening sliders, hold down Alt to get a black-and-white view that helps you visualise the effect better.-- Colin (talk) 11:49, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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Done New version with lighting less hard, none sharpening, none noise reduction in the sky, only "a bit of Lightroom's sharpening mask slider to avoid sharpening noise in the sky". Yes, first time I had turned off the colour noise reduction and also painted over the sky with NR. Anyway thanks for advices. -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:40, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
- This is better now, thanks. I'm still not going wow, sorry. But it is a quality/valued image and deservedly so. -- Colin (talk) 20:04, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
- Oppose I also see nothing excellent. -- -donald- (talk) 09:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination -- Christian Ferrer (talk) 16:41, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
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