Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Stuttgart-Schlossplatz-at-night.jpg

File:Stuttgart-Schlossplatz-at-night.jpg

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•  Info created, uploaded, nominated by Curnen (talk) 12:49, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Curnen (talk) 12:49, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Insufficient quality: Grainy sky, blurry, artifacts presumably due to postprocessing. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 14:47, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

•  Info I have a 60 cm x 40cm print of it on my wall, which looks fantastic. However, I now reduced the filesize to hopefully minimize this problem. --Curnen (talk) 16:14, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Bad crop on left and bottom. -- JovanCormac 17:08, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
  •  Question Please give me a hint, what you don't like. I would like to improve ! --Curnen (talk) 06:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
    • Well, the left part of the fountain's basin is cut off, as is part of the bottom, which gives the picture a cramped composition. Also, the shot shows a substantial tilt (probably ~2 degrees) clockwise, especially visible when looking at the fountain, which appears to be leaning towards the right. The light and the water in the picture are beautiful, but sadly, they don't quite make up for the shortcomings in other areas. -- JovanCormac 07:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose - Not of the highest quality. Tiptoety ^talk 22:51, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

•  Question You oppose because you don't like the image or just because I resized it ? If it would be because of the resizing, I would be grateful, if somebody of the hardcore-voters would explain me the right balance between size and noise. Because to me for example grainy and blurry are two opposites and it seems, that NEUROtiker found both in the image. If I use more noise reduction, the image becomes even more blurry, so I either need to accept a grainy sky (which is only visible, if you zoom in like mad and is not noticeable even in a large print) or I need to do a resizing. Or is there a third option I haven't thought about ? --Curnen (talk) 06:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
  • The sky is the main problem concerning the grain. And in the high resolution version the whole picture seems a bit unsharp. In addition there are a lot of artifacts, mostly vertical lines throughout the picture as well as aliasing visible on the white windows and doors. They are more prominent in the original picture but still visible in the scaled down version. --NEUROtiker ^⇌ 19:41, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Noisy, bad crop. —kallerna™ 08:54, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

•  : Ok, I think I got the message ;-) Curnen (talk) 15:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Alternative

•  Question Better ? --Curnen (talk) 09:33, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Looks like a computer generated picture. --Mr. Mario (talk) 04:44, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

•  CommentWell, a DSLR is a computer, so what shall I replay to that ? ;-) --Curnen (talk) 15:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

•  Oppose Welcome to Commons :P. Sorry, but I'm going to have to oppose as well. There appears to be some sort of distortion and artifacting along the roofline, the building suffers from chromatic abberation, and looks very washed out. As a whole, it is rather noisy, and perhaps underexposed in places. The crop of the fountain ruins what would otherwise have been a nice compostion. Sarcastic ShockwaveLover (talk) 12:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

•  : Ok, I think I got the message ;-) Curnen (talk) 15:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)