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File:San Francisco Bay Bridge Western Span at night.jpg, featured

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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Bridges
•  Info created by dllu - uploaded by dllu - nominated by Dllu -- dllu (t,c) 07:34, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- dllu (t,c) 07:34, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Info Raw file available at [1]. dllu (t,c) 07:56, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
• Solid but tempered  Support - The bridge and the reflected light are great! My one caveat is that I don't like all those star trails, and people who don't know about the chronic drawbacks of night photography will wonder what all those apparent meteors are. The best solution would be to make all of them look like discrete stars, but I don't know if you want to spend the time for that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:10, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
  • The "500 rule" for avoiding star trails is to expose for no longer than "500 / focal length" (based on full-frame camera). For the 20mm lens here, that would be 25s, and this photo is 30s which is only slightly more. But that rule is for the trails to be noticeable when viewing the whole picture, rather than avoiding any trailing at 100% (which is harder with today's high resolution sensors). Also you get longer trails the further out from the pole star you go. Looking at the whole picture on a high DPI monitor, I can just see that the stars on the left are tiny stroke rather than dots, but only if I look closely. I don't think anyone will think these are meteors, which produce much longer streaks. -- Colin (talk) 16:12, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support great picture but per Ikan. You could also get rid of the stars altogether... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:49, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Don't understand the constant star trailing on night pictures. If someone doesn't know they are free to google "night picture lines" or something and learn about them. Or Not, whatever. -- KennyOMG (talk) 15:26, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Colin (talk) 16:12, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support A nice West Coast complement to Julian's photo of that bridge in South Carolina we featured last month. Daniel Case (talk) 16:39, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support It is a shame about the stars and the noisy sky, but it's great composition. Charles (talk) 16:57, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay ^talk 17:09, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support per Daniel! I don't mind the slight star trailing - for how small and sparse the stars are, that's much preferable to high-ISO noise throughout the entire image. –Juliancolton | ^Talk 20:21, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 21:51, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support Daphne Lantier 02:32, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:34, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --cart-Talk 09:57, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --PtrQs (talk) 15:46, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support--g. balaxaZe★ 23:45, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 05:08, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
• Weak  Support. Not the strongest technically, with large (albeit faint) blobs of flare and some noise in the sky, but excellent wow factor. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 06:15, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
•  Support --Code (talk) 16:39, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 02:44, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Bridges