Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Consolation-Lake-Szmurlo.jpg

Image:Consolation-Lake-Szmurlo.jpg, featured

•  Info created by Chuck Szmurlo - uploaded by Chuck Szmurlo - nominated by Simonizer 16:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Lovely and high-quality landscape picture. I like the mood and the symetric form of the mountain and its mirror image on the right hand. The symetric form is disrupted by the stone in the water and the mountain in the background. That makes the picture more dynamic. The stones and branches under water give the picture a sense of scale --Simonizer 16:23, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose A polariser seems to have been used when water was in the image... Bad idea, imo. Simonizer, I disagree with you. The stones and branches do not add but detract. I would much rather see total reflections. Freedom to share 16:45, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
  • If a polariser was used to get rid of reflections, then there would be no mirror image of the two mountains either. You can see no reflections on the left side of the picture because there is only cloudless sky as a refelection. --Simonizer 18:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support agree with Simonizer analysis --B.navez 17:04, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Although I don't really like how the underwater woods and stones look, overall I find the composition very nice. - Keta 17:40, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Thanks to the stones and brances, this is not dull beauty. Samulili 17:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support very well composed! --AngMoKio 18:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose with regret, but ack Freedom, the eye gets drawn to the branches underwater and once there you don't find anything worth looking at. --Dori - Talk 19:02, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Very, very good! --Karelj 19:18, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Excellent - view full size Gordo 20:17, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support N.I.C.E --Richard Bartz 20:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support A nice scene. However, though it does add to the atmospherics of the image, the heavy dodging (or is it a feathered HDR?) of the rocks at the shore is a little too conspicuous - I'd suggest toning it down a little. --Fir0002 www 21:12, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose with regret. There is no single subject that draws the eye, and the centrally-placed rock tends to divide the image into two separate sections which fight for attention. --MichaelMaggs 21:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC).
•  Support -- MJJR 22:37, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Pol filter could have been stronger imho, but a mindblowing image nonetheless. Samsara 23:28, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Wow, great.-- Acarpentier 00:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support. I disagree with the oppose-voters above. I like the transparency of the water and the “displaced” rock. --TM 08:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support great picture, i love the contrast between the surface and the bottom of the lagoon --Dtarazona 14:37, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Böhringer 15:03, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Great shot! RedCoat 17:25, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Neutral Dont know, if I can see into two dimenssions its strange for me.--Juan de Vojníkov 08:05, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support I just love this picture!--Lamilli 02:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support great composition, high quality; thanks for this photo. --Überraschungsbilder 05:45, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support My absolute favorite of all nominations. --Johann Jaritz 09:27, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Wow Rastrojo (D|ES) 15:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose, the (almost?) burned-out part of the water is too distracting. --Aqwis 20:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support, lovely one and well composed. I think only colours could be better (more realistic). --Mihael Simonic 09:29, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Technically fine, but composition is confusing. Lycaon 11:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Johney (talk) 11:33, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Info I appreciate all the thoughtful comments. I can confirm that no polariser was used but I did use a graduated neutral density filter at a 45 degree angle along the skyline to deal with the enormous dynamic range in the scene. Compositionally, I was really trying to go beyond the traditional symetrical reflection shot by emphasizing the rock island and the submerged elements which I thought contributed a unique quality to the scene.--Chuck Szmurlo 00:16, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Gut. Gut. Nochmals gut. -- Tian.chris 14:52, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support --Bergwolf 20:06, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support - wow. --- Anonymous Dissident^Talk 01:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
•  Support Brilliant! --junafani 18:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

result: 26 support, 5 oppose, 1 neutral => featured. Mywood 21:58, 2 February 2008 (UTC)