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German railroad signals near Meiningen Station
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Objects#Machines
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Grand-Duc. This image depicts German railroad signals erected on the approach to Meiningen station (Bundesland Thuringia). Due to a slightly fogged weather ambience, we've got a stray light ray that IMHO serves nicely to illustrate the functioning of light signalisation. As I've got really positive reviews on DE-WP, I put this up here for scrutiny. As for a slight blue hue and bright spots visible in the lower half of the picture: I tried to offer the watcher's eyes some guiding towards the reflecting panels of the signals by illuminating them with a LED lamp (contrasting to the road lighting by yellowish sodium lamps). This made some ice crystals on the ballast stones appear as bright spots, too, the ice stemming from the fog freezing at around -2°C. I'm looking forward for any critics. Regards, Grand-Duc (talk) 20:04, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Grand-Duc (talk) 20:04, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Interesting idea and hard to catch such beams but I think this would have gone better if you'd skipped that LED light. I don't mind the glittery snow crystals but the blue hue adds yet another color to the landscape and the light makes the reflective surfaces stand out and compete with the red beam for the viewers attention in an unnatural way. A more coherent and warm color scheme would have been better. Unfortunately, part of the beam also coincides with the tree line, that sort of "stops" the beam and messes with it, plus you've got traily stars. For such a dark photo you could have upped the ISO just a bit to cut time. cart-Talk 00:35, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Why not? Quite interesting, atmospheric, and the quality is surprisingly good for a night shot like this. --A.Savin 01:54, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Cart. lNeverCry 02:46, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - cart's points are well taken, but I also doubt this could be an interesting enough image to warrant a feature, rather than VI/QI. I hope that doesn't come across as unnecessarily harsh: I definitely respect your effort to take an informative photo in the cold, and I think it bore fruit, but as informational, ergo VI. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:28, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per Alexander. I'd get rid of the stair trails... --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:56, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support of course ... a very good image need some opposes too! --Alchemist-hp (talk) 10:49, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Grand-Duc told me of another version of this pic on my talk page, one that I think is more harmonious since it focuses the attention on the beam. It still has the star trails though. cart-Talk 11:53, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Ikan and Cart. To be FP in my eyes, the composition of a shot like this would have to do an incredibly good job at abstracting the signal and tracks away from the background - as it is, with the yellow sign and the trees in the background, it's too "busy". And mixing light sources is asking for difficulties in post-processing. The image does a great job of showing what it needs to show, but (to me) it lacks "wow", and as Ikan said, is therefore a good VI candidate. Just my 2 cents and I hope it doesn't discourage you from trying more creative images like this -- Thennicke (talk) 13:37, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment This would be great with a landscape format. The rails cut at left is a pity. Regards, Yann (talk) 17:03, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I Love people original,and this is original! The stones are fantastic for me with the red light --LivioAndronico (talk) 20:24, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per cart; I think the red beam in the fog by itself might have looked special and distinctive, like a laser beam; I have been struck by some that I've seen recently but was unable to photograph. However, all the other things take away from that. Daniel Case (talk) 23:33, 27 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 5 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /lNeverCry 23:56, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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