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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places#Sweden
Info Observation tower on Grävlingsberget in Hälleskogsbrännan nature reserve, Västmanland, Sweden. The reserve was established in 2015 to observe the development of the ecosystem in the area following the large 2014 Västmanland wildfire. From the current WLE, a few minor technical imperfections, but I think the stark composition overrules them. Created and uploaded by Brian Forsberg - nominated by W.carter. -- Cart (talk) 10:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Cart (talk) 10:49, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
Comment - Interesting, but the sky is too noisy for me to feel wowed. Brian Forsberg, would you like to try de-noising it? Ikan Kekek (talk) 03:37, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
- I don't think it needs de-noising so much as re-worked to avoid the noise in the first place (it's an ISO 100 photo, so there shouldn't be any problem with noise). Looking at the File:Utkikstorn.jpg file from which this one claims to be derived, the noise is much greater towards the top, as though a graduated filter had brought it out. Both files appear to have been saved with high JPG compression. The image here is much worse wrt JPG compression artefacts than the other, probably a result of repeatedly saving a compressed JPG, and noise is impossible for any compression to handle well. There's a very slight purple tint to the sides of the sky. I'm just a bit sceptical then about what processing has been done to that sky. I would be keen to overlook these, but I wish the image was just a bit less dull overall -- some sunlight on the subject combined with a dark sky would really lift it. Agree the composition is good. -- Colin (talk) 09:02, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination After that nomination killer, I see no other option. --Cart (talk) 11:02, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
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