Commons:Featured picture candidates/Log/March 2018

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File:Bajorelieve1-monumentoaSanMartinMDP.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:36, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Beachy Head March 2017 01.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Result: 7 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 21:56, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:20180126 FIS NC WC Seefeld Eric Frenzel 850 9872.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Eric Frenzel making fun with a banana
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Result: 3 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 13:40, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Rice mill in Laos.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Rice mill in a hangar of Don Som, Laos

 I withdraw my nomination -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:30, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Seeds of Cumin.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Picture of Cumin "Cuminum Cyminum" Seeds. Length is about 5 mm.

 I withdraw my nomination - Thanks for expressing your opinions so clearly. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:41, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:40, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Krummhörn, Greetsiel, Hafen -- 2018 -- 1126.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Ships at the harbour, Greetsiel, Krummhörn, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Result: 2 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Notre Dame in a february evening.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Result: 1 support, 6 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:35, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Sargent, John Singer (RA) - Gassed - Google Art Project.jpg, featured[edit]

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Gassed by Sargent
Apparently, I am not allowed to crop images I didn't upload.--Peulle (talk) 08:55, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
✓ Done per Commons:Overwriting_existing_files#Minor_improvements : minor cropping -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:45, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good, thanks. :) --Peulle (talk) 11:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 00:36, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:20180128 FIS NC Worldcup Seefeld Ilka Herola 850 2666.jpg, featured[edit]

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Seefeld-Triple 2018, third day January 28th. Picture shows Ilkka Herola
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Result: 8 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 12:35, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:John Jay (Gilbert Stuart portrait).jpg, featured[edit]

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John Jay was the first Chief Justice of the United States. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice is named in his honor.
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Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 12:41, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Seventh Angel BoE-2012-4.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Arkley singer-guitarist Seventh Angel at Blast of Eternity 2012.
  • I did a Google image search from the file description page and nearly every b&w image returned included the artists's head. Without that, there's no identity and no life to this "live performance". Many of the search results also are more dynamic in pose/action, whereas this is a very classic guitar hold with no apparent movement. The landscape format makes me think the head is cropped off, though it is more likely the camera was just held that way. -- Colin (talk) 13:58, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mmmh. FWIW, for me it is very apparent that this is a live performance. "[A]ny anonymous model" won't do for this kind of thing, you'll need an actual guitar player for this or it'll look utterly fake. But I see your point regarding the crop – and I think it could possibly help to crop even more on the top and right. Regarding the noise, I wonder how it would look like had it been shot on actual black & white film (something like Delta 3200 pushed a stop or two). I'm still undecided … --El Grafo (talk) 14:51, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • El Grafo, you're going to tell me now that the models in "Addicted to Love" aren't actual guitar players ;-). Ok, "model" was probably the wrong word, but any modestly able guitar player would do. All I can see here is a white male in a dark t-shirt holding some random guitar. Everything that makes capturing a live performance worthwhile seems to be missing. -- Colin (talk) 15:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 2 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 12:34, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Vista de Benidorm, España, 2014-07-02, DD 63.JPG, featured[edit]

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View of Benidorm, turistic capital of the Costa Blanca (literally White Coast) in Land of Valencia, Spain.
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Result: 15 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 13:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Altenburg-P1180876.jpg, featured[edit]

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The Altenburg in Bamberg seen from the eastern direction before a thunderstorm.
  •  Comment - Thanks. You got it. This is a very nice photo. I actually believe the light and colors, and the composition is good, I just haven't decided whether it's great. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 00:52, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:33, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Helsinki Olympic Stadium Tower.jpg, featured[edit]

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Helsinki Olympic Stadium Tower
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Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 01:31, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Torreón de la presa del lago Mavrovo, Macedonia, 2014-04-17, DD 04.JPG, not featured[edit]

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Winter scene of the watching tower, dam and Mavrovo Lake, Mavrovo National Park, Republic of Macedonia.
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture/Towers
  •  Info Winter scene of the watching tower, dam and Mavrovo Lake, Mavrovo National Park, Republic of Macedonia. The park, founded in 1949, is the largest (of the three existing) in the country with 780 km2, while the lake has a length of 10 km and a width of 5 km. Poco2 13:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Poco2 13:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose We've had two FPC's from this photo shoot (#28 succeeded and #06 failed). Kadellar thought #05 had a good composition, which I agree. This one here, though, doesn't have as good composition, and the leading lines/centre focuses on a drab concrete building and metal door which doesn't lend itself to "wow". Do you really think this photo is among your finest of the scene, never mind among the finest on Commons? Or did you scrape the bottom of your barrel to dig out this 4-year-old photo to make sure you always have two FPC noms on the go at all times? Nominating such ancient photos seems more about collecting stars than being encouraged, and encouraging others to keep taking and nominating fresh work for Commons. We need good quality reviews from you at FPC far more than we need nominations of dull photos that didn't make the cut 4 years ago. -- Colin (talk) 14:40, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    Colin: First, excuse me for this nom if I hurt any feelings. I do like this image, actually more that #5, that's why I proposed it. I think that this photo is among my finest (let's say 5%), that's why I started the nom. As I don't browse the whole project I cannot say what are the finest images there. Whether it's enough or not to became the FP star, I don't know. That's something that the community will decide. Seriously, your "bottom of the barrel scrape" argument is boring and insulting. How do you explain that I also scraped it with the predecessor nom to this one and the result was 15 supporting votes. It seems to be some jewels down there. It is not my fault that I've uploaded a lot of (to me) FP-worthy material in the last years, and I've never aimed to nominate them in the order I upload them. Is there a rule to propose to FP images uploaded in the last 3 months or so? Come on. This image did not make the cut 4 years ago because I didn't try it, and when I saw it today in my FP candidates category, and given the chilling weather we have now, I thought it would fit good here. Poco2 16:44, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The light is no good - makes the photo look boring.--Peulle (talk) 14:53, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose per Peulle. Daniel Case (talk) 18:21, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The dull light leaves too much of the snow featureless and makes the building look very drab and uninteresting. But I am pulling up a chair and get the popcorn ready to follow the discussion above. --cart-Talk 19:22, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination No, sorry, cart, show is over (at least from my side) --Poco2 19:52, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 10:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Црква „Св. Илија“ (нова) во Митрашинци.jpg, not featured[edit]

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The newly built St. Elijah's Church in the village of Mitrašinci, Macedonia
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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 10:03, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:In the mood. Veteran at Belgian National Day. Brussels, 2012.jpg, featured[edit]

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Veteran at Belgian National Day. Brussels, 2012
The prime aim of the project is education, and I don't see that here. There is nothing profound about it even. Otherwise I agree with Yann's comments. --BeckenhamBear (talk) 12:45, 1 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Per COM:PS : The expression "educational" is to be understood according to its broad meaning of "providing knowledge; instructional or informative" -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:17, 2 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 19:50, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Pacifiers.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Assortment of pacifiers locked to a bridge over the Ilmenau river in Lüneburg
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 23:02, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Soviet POWs.jpg, featured[edit]

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Soviet POWs
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Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 23:03, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:AA gun firing during Continuation War.jpg, not featured[edit]

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AA gun firing

(Edit conflict)* Oppose A very interesting photo, I can see why it intrigues you. You could guess that the very exact triple exposure is a result of the ground shaking when the gun fired. Unfortunately it is in rather poor condition with scratches, dust and spots, and I would suggest that you restore it the same way many other FPs of historical photos have been and re-nominate it after that. --cart-Talk 11:58, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Might do that in the future. Manelolo (talk) 15:26, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, no. For getting that FP feeling, I'd be looking for an image where you can still see what's going on - like this one.--Peulle (talk) 19:22, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ha, I feel you! For me, a shot like that is too clinical to conduce any awe or sense of it being real (like a Formula 1 pic without any blur). Manelolo (talk) 19:57, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Well, we've had grainy photos, historical photos, camera shake photos, B&W photos and restored photos here, so why not one that includes all of these aspects. :) --cart-Talk 10:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per Cart --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:25, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose For this kind of pictures the VI category is optimal, I don't see FP here.--Ermell (talk) 07:53, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I really want to support this, since the image definitely gets me interested. Thing is, because the image is kind of a mess (I don't mean that in a strictly negative sense), the story behind it is crucial. If it were documented somewhere that it was the shockwave that caused the camera shake, I would support. However, is that the only explanation? Perhaps, with the barrel of the gun the sharpest element, its firing caused it to jump back a bit and the photographer instinctively panned to the right, keeping the gun in roughly the same position but ruining the exposure for everything else. Still makes for an interesting photo, but much of the appeal would be lost for me. I just don't know, and for that reason I can't support at this time. — Rhododendrites talk |  23:05, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    @Rhododendrites: Hmm interesting pondering. I've identified it as a Swedish-made Bofors 40 mm gun (barrel, wheels, the portruding little reflector sight) which can fire at around 120 rounds per minute (2.0 rounds per second). The gun itself doesn't move that much when firing (see YouTube vid), but of course the barrel does. No idea if they fired only one shot at the observation tower or more. Unfortunately documentation from that time was a short caption onto the picture itself. :-) Manelolo (talk) 08:38, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    And since I started exploring, found two more pics of most likely the same event: https://finna.fi/Record/sa-kuva.sa-kuva-75980?lng=en-gb and https://finna.fi/Record/sa-kuva.sa-kuva-75981?lng=en-gb. Both have similar exposure, but depending on the firing phase. The former is actually similarly interesting because only the soldiers are "trembling" and seem almost spectral compared to everything else. Manelolo (talk) 09:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the added information. I guess it comes down to: how much of the FP-worthiness comes from the aesthetic of the image, and how certain are we that it isn't simply botched? It seems like part of why it's interesting (taking for granted, for a moment, that we don't know it was the shockwave) is that in most cases the photographer would just throw out such a photo and it wouldn't make it down through the years to the point that we're looking at it now. Obviously the photographer was in a noteworthy place/time/context, but if we're looking for documentation there are other better examples, it seems. — Rhododendrites talk |  14:44, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Quite right. I am fairly certain it isn't botched per your reasoning as well as some other deduction: 1) The combat photographer has 271 shots in total from the war and most them normal quality material based on a quick sample. Like you said, he would have tossed this one (or the publication office for that matter) if he didn't see something in it. 2) The two other pics have the firing phase are at an earlier stage, but are already exposured a bit. Likewise, it seems too much of blind luck that with a botched move he would have gotten everything else exposured almost with a ruler, but the barrel of the gun (i.e. the only other thing moving with the shockwave) to be sharp—especially considering the whole firing phase takes less than half a second.
But this might be going too much into it already. I look at hundreds of war pictures from the archives on some days. Only a few catch my eye immediately from the thumbnails, this was one of them. Jumping a bit from the technicality discussion at the Swedish-women-signing-climate-deal FPC, war pictures from the frontline and in action IMHO should invoke a sense of the environment and situation (granted, this pic is one of the most extreme in that) in them instead of a crystal clear and sharp zoom of an artillery round fired 50 kilometres from the enemy and taken on a tripod. This must have been some of the photographer's first battles, if not the first, since the invasion started only 7 days prior to the picture. Most likely he wasn't too much inclined to jump around if the enemy was within the firing range of a 40 mm AA gun. And for me, it's somehow captivating how the picture turned out—taken during the night and at the exact right time. It made me stop and wonder. Manelolo (talk) 16:39, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 4 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 07:08, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Louvre Cour Carree.jpg, delisted[edit]

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Result: 10 delist, 0 keep, 0 neutral => delisted. Basile Morin (talk) 02:22, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Drei Zinnen Tre Cime di Lavaredo Dolomites.jpg, featured[edit]

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The Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites - Aereal view of the Northern face from a helicopter - Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 03:46, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral.jpg, featured[edit]

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Isabella Lövin signing climate law referral
  • I was wondering if someone would notice the curve :-), it matches the curve of the table so that the ceiling becomes like a "mirror image" of the table. An unusual and very good photo. --cart-Talk 20:02, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Absolutely correct perspective was probably not what was most important for the photographer when creating this photo. Any perspective correction would completely ruin the comopsition and it's not important to do such in a photo like this. It is better to have the people depicted in a good way than worry about the proportions of a partial painting in the background. (See almost any photo from the Oval Office.) Like with other famous photos, we have to live the inherent imperfections in them. --cart-Talk 10:45, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is no "distortion" and the "perspective" is "correct". If you stood where the camera was, looking with one eye, this is what you'd see. There are conventions surrounding architectural and interior building photography that the camera should be level, perpendicular to the facing wall, and the angle of view not too extreme. They are conventions that tend to produce pleasing results for photographs where the subject has straight lines at 90° to each other. Here, the subject is a group of people, and if you are concentrating on the verticals of the door or painting, then you aren't really looking properly. We had this complaint at File:Khandoba temple Pune.jpg, where the subject is the worshipers, and it went on to win 1st prize in WLM. Where do you look in this photo: File:Marilyn Monroe photo pose Seven Year Itch.jpg ;-) -- Colin (talk) 11:36, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Please don't tell me that I'm not "really looking properly". That's patronising. In this image the camera is not "perpendicular to the facing wall". Easily corrected. An important image, but not FP. Charles (talk) 19:53, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Charles, could you consider, perhaps, that you are wrong? Enough neutrality: reviews like this are embarrassing. Please go to Pete Souza's Flickr Stream and examine the photos. Some are level, many are not. Many of his greatest photos are not. It is telling that this photo was published as-is by newspapers ([1], [2], [3], [4], etc) but when reviewed at FPC, we ended up with this rotated crop. Only on Commons does anyone worry that the door frame is not vertical. Only on Commons. *sigh*. The picture editors at all these newspapers [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12] didn't feel the need to "correct" the verticals before publishing the photo we are reviewing here. Anyone here taken a photo that's gone viral, viewed by millions, and published in newspapers round the world? No, thought not. So a bird and insect photographer thinks all the world's newspaper photo editors, and Souza, arguably the best political event photographer of this century, are making a newbie, easily corrected, mistake? You are not really looking properly. -- Colin (talk) 20:54, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • "No, thought not."? Wrong actually, Colin. One of my 'bird and insect photographs' was used by the Indian Postal Services on a postage stamp and so has been viewed by many more people than this nominated image. But that's beside the point and mentioned only in response to Colin's rant. I didn't write the FP guidelines which state "Images should not be unintentionally tilted". We are not a newspaper. Voters here are not newspaper editors. And Colin, you should not conclude that I can only take insect and bird images, just because I choose to only submit animal photos to Wikimedia. Charles (talk) 21:23, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Congratulations on your stamp, Charles, but it isn't actually what I meant or said. Your photo didn't "go viral". People didn't think it so meaningful that they forwarded it to their friends with a comment. This image achieved notability -- it was talked about as a photograph, not as so many pixels. Various, independent, newspaper picture editors selects it as a newsworthy image. It wasn't discussed because artistically or technically it was great, though it is perfectly fine, but for what it said. So, no, I don't think anyone where has taken a photo that meant anything. Not a diddly squat. Your bird stamp is a great achievement, but isn't a comment on Trump vs Lövin approach to government, or anything else. This photo is great because of what it says, not because of any of the tedious factors listed in our FPC guidelines. This is just a repeat of the Obama "is my hair like your hair" photo, where Commons embarrases itself by looking at pixels and not the picture. We fail to reliably recognise great photos. If the FP guidelines are being followed so rigidly by some, and you are not alone in becoming a robot wrt such things as noise or CA, then it truely is time to scrap them. They are, in my experience, only ever mentioned by folk defending wrongheaded reviews. -- Colin (talk) 09:32, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 14 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 03:41, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Rifugio Friedrich August - Gable.jpg, featured[edit]

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Gable of the the Rifugio Friedrich August, in the background the Langkofel Group with paragliders, Trentino, Italy


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Result: 10 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 03:43, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Vista de Puno y el Titicaca, Perú, 2015-08-01, DD 53-54 PAN.JPG, featured[edit]

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View of Puno and the Titicaca Lake, Peru
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Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 03:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Alcea rosea purple.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 10:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:This is what the Potomac Canal was bypassing.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Great Falls of the Potomac River
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Result: 1 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Basile Morin (talk) 05:28, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Detail of opera performance Arena di Verona Italy 2017.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Confirmed results:
Result: 0 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--cart-Talk 10:11, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

File:Golden eagle at ACES (11738).jpg, not featured[edit]

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Golden eagle with handler in Aspen, Colorado
  •  Support Could also work for category "People at work". --cart-Talk 08:43, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I love the expression on both their faces and wonder what they are looking at. -- Colin (talk) 08:55, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Bird's head in front of woman's doesn't work for me. And the woman is named so shouldn't you have model release? Charles (talk) 10:06, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Charles, a "model release" is a feature of stock photo websites, or professional photographers who sell stock images directly, where they require the model to release all rights controlling use of the image -- this makes it easy for them to sell the image for advertising/promotional purposes. Nobody in their right mind would do that without being paid something in return. Commons does not care what non-copyright hurdles any re-user faces if they wish to use this image for certain purposes. Should anyone wish to use this image for advertising/promotional purposes, they would have to arrange specific permission with the subject, for which they would probably have to pay. Model releases are not a feature of any images on Commons unless the photo was already taken for professional purposes and the photographer happened to have a release anyway. See COM:IDENT. -- Colin (talk) 11:27, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It's cool, but the woman's obscured face ruins the fun for me.--Peulle (talk) 11:48, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Good social shot. --Mile (talk) 12:26, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose as per Charles and Peulle. Yann (talk) 17:38, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Delft, de Oostpoort RM11968 foto11 2016-03-13 10.32.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Plumeria (Frangipani) flowers.jpg, featured[edit]

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Plumeria (frangipani), flowers in Don Tao, Laos
Though I tried to make it blurred enough -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:55, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is not artificially blurred. My RAW file is available on request. Just the DoF was adjusted to isolate the flower during the session. No artificial effect on post treatment. This picture was shot in the evening, so that's the normal color of the nature at this time of the day -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:25, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That one is nowhere near as pronounced as this one. Oh well unfortunately, there is still the busy background so my 'o' stands. Sorry, this one is not winning me over 100%. --cart-Talk 15:09, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Conchoidal fracture - Aztec Sandstone.JPG, not featured[edit]

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A conchoidal fracture on Aztec Sandstone.
I'm not sure about a lot brighter, this was fairly early in the morning (time was EXIF time minus 3 hours), but I brightened it more. --СССР (talk) 19:10, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Looks better to me, for what that's worth. The right crop is feeling tight to me, but I don't know what your options were. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 19:21, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Mycena clarkeana 533139.jpg, featured[edit]

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Mycena clarkeana
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File:Snowfall at night over Brofjorden and Preemraff oil refinery.jpg, featured[edit]

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Snowfall at night over Brofjorden and Preemraff oil refinery
  • Peulle, yes, they are a bit fuzzy, that's what happens when you photograph something while it's snowing. Without the snow you wouldn't get the glow, which is the whole point of the photo. :) The snow was moving away from the shore I stood on, so the jetty is relatively clear. If I took the photo when I could get everything in the distance sharp, there would be no glow in the sky. Unfortunately you can't have both glow and sharp distant features. (The refinery on a clear night = no glow.) --cart-Talk 19:07, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've never seen that commercial. Maybe it sells cars abroad where such things are quaint and mysterious, but here we don't need to be reminded of the snow, cold and darkness, I just drive home from work to see it. In a Mazda. ;) --cart-Talk 20:08, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Lake Prespa with the island of Golem Grad
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Rural church of Kalfatjorn, Suðurnes, Iceland
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Dying pigeon in Brussels
  •  Comment - I don't think you're reading too much into it at all. I also have a soft spot for pigeons, which are really sensitive, caring creatures toward their mates and quite intelligent in very interesting ways. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:33, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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  •  Comment I looked at this image and had the same reaction as Peulle. I felt guilty about it, for reasons you articulate, Satdeep Gill (i.e. that's the way it's supposed to be! :) ). I went in and tried to tweak it a bit to separate the crab from the sand, and wonder what you think of the result: here is the original and here is the alternative. I tried to keep it relatively realistic, with only minor adjustments to the subject itself (i.e. most of the change is to the sand). Peulle, I'd also be curious if this change would be enough to change your mind? For the time being, I have reverted to the previous version so as not to disrupt this FPC (and out of respect for Satdeep Gill's preferences regarding his lovely photo). (Edit conflict) Suppose I should ping Ikan Kekek now, too, since he has opined while I was writing this. :) — Rhododendrites talk |  05:20, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Because I used two adjustment brushes, it seems considerably easier to crop the previously modified version rather than to apply the changes to a cropped version. I went ahead and restored the modified version and tried to reproduce the crop (it's not quite the same, but of course you can crop to where you see fit). Personally, I disagree with Ikan about this crop and prefer a bit more space (this version). This new crop also brings it below 2MP. :/ You may want to wait for additional opinions before changing, though. — Rhododendrites talk |  05:49, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, I'm sorry, the photo is smaller than 2 MP now. I wasn't thinking about that. So unfortunately, it's not possible to crop the photo this much and still have it be eligible for consideration for FP. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:03, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Magdalensberg St. Helena Flügelaltar 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Winged altar at the church on mount Magdalensberg, Carinthia, Austria
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Shell variability of the Nerite Vittina waigiensis
  • I think it's a great idea to make a 50% version of this file and link them in the file's description. It does in no way detract from the original image, it only increase its chances of being viewed and used. Far from all users know about the Zoom Viewer or how to use it either from tech ignorance or language difficulties. Seeing a text that says "50%" next to an image is much more understandable. Also the Viewer doesn't work properly all the time, I for one can't get it working on my computer. I got the idea for the 50% version of File:Krigsgiljan at Loddebo.jpg from one of Colin's photos: File:Royal Albert Hall - Central View Square.jpg, a 111 photos image which is also available in 50%, 33.3%, 30% and 20% plus selected crops from the original. --cart-Talk 09:55, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I agree with Cart about offering a 50% downsize. Not everyone's computer can handle this and others may wish to download the image rather than just view bits through the zoom viewer. MediaWiki's thumbnailer is able to offer downsized variants but only upto a certain limit in size. For my RAH photo, I offer some smaller size using the thumbnailer URL and just the 50% downsize as a separate file (as it is too large for the thumbnailer). -- Colin (talk) 10:48, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Escape route signs at the University Hospital at the Albert-Schweitzer-Campus, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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File:Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Marshall’s Beach, October 2017.jpg, featured[edit]

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A similar photo being shown and discussed a bit
Golden Gate Bridge taken today

(Note: I've wikified the above thumbnail as it was too much like an Alt nomination -- Colin (talk) 15:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)).[reply]

  •  Question How about this one? (we had much better weather conditions today) --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:50, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 04:42, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It is nice of you to show us this photo, but please don't present it in a way that can be mistaken for an "Alternative" in this nomination (which already has enough support votes to make FP). It is a totally different photo and it you want to offer it for consideration, you should make a new nomination for it. Johann's "vote" is striked for the same reason. --cart-Talk 07:01, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment I thought it was an alternate photo to the one above and thus might vote for this one too. Thanks, Cart, for putting everything in the right order. -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 07:27, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • It is mostly agreed that an Alt should be a different crop or processing from the same photo or at least a very similar shot from the same photo shoot. I agree with Cart that this is too different. FWIW, I don't think the foreground and arrangement is as good -- the sun on the sand makes this current nom much warmer and happier. The dark wet sand here isn't nearly so appealing. -- Colin (talk) 10:30, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • They're both great pictures and both worth being featured IMO. --Code (talk) 15:32, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sorry, I didn't mean to make this appear as if it was an alternative nomination. I just wanted to point out that the first photo has some insufficiencies that can be dealt with if the conditions are right. We don't have that many days with nice puffy clouds here in the Bay Area and in order to reach that part of the beach, you have to wait for low tide… which means that you have to be lucky to have (a) great weather conditions, (b) low tide at a specific time of day, and (c) – maybe most important of all – free time to get to the location and shoot. As for the idea of me nominating the second shot: I've been somewhat annoyed by unpleasant comments here on Featured Pictures lately and I also generally don't buy into the idea that pixel-peeping and solely focusing on technical aspects of photography is going to get Commons anywhere. That's why I decided to spend more of my time on other photography sites. Sorry for the extra work that I created with my comment yesterday. Best, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:14, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Christian only the first photo is being voted on. Could you move your vote up to that group of votes, or else remove it if the second photo is the only one you support. Perhaps Frank will nominate the second one another time. -- Colin (talk) 15:46, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I voted for the first photo, there is no alternative sections. I even did not noticed the second image when I clicked on the edit button at top because the discussion is longer than the height of my screen. If there is an alternative nomination, please make a separate section. Then I will move my vote. Christian Ferrer (talk) 15:53, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 20 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 20:23, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:上海·上海市·（俯拍）.jpg, not featured[edit]

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View of The Bund and Pudong, Shanghai. Photo by drone.
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French actor Louis de Funès.
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Tasman Lake and Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in the South Island, New Zealand
  • Ikan, I meant preferabily a stitched panorama out of several frames (quality would be better) or from a single frame with a ultra wide angle lens (deformation could be too much, depends on the scene) Poco2 15:01, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Baustelle-Hölzla-Rebar-6228085.jpg, featured[edit]

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Reinforcement cage for bored pile on the ABS construction site in Nuremberg Ebensfeld
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Her Danish Majesty's Yacht Dannebrog
Discussion on horizontal - fixed
  •  Comment Not horizontal -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • Basile I don't understand your comment. Do you mean you'd prefer if I was perpendicular to the ship and/or the shore? I am at an angle to both. As far as I can see, using the buildings as reference, the verticals are vertical. I assume the ship masts aren't vertical because of the pitch of the ship in the water at the moment I took it, and also because some ships masts are "raked aft" -- slope back. But I'm not very knowledgeable about ships. -- Colin (talk) 11:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Looks perfectly ok to me. Most lines on a ship are not vertical or horizontal. The best way to align is sometimes going by some portholes or windows, but that's not good either since most ships tilt some way in water. You can't apply the same rules for ships as for buildings. --cart-Talk 11:47, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The water is not horizontal. I've added a note. Also I wonder why this photo was downsized from 18,7 to 12,2 Mp on the 27th of February, 2 months after this comment : "It is a vicious-circle if people start routinely downsizing images to improve sharpness, then reviewers get unrealistic expectations of sharpness, which encourages further downsizing" -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't know how you can tell the water is not horizontal. There is no horizon. The photo has had it's verticals corrected, which entails some stretching towards the top of the image. I initially tried to compensate for that by scaling down a little but in the end decided I had scaled too far and so removed that. As a result I had to work harder to denoise the sky, which was emphasised by the stretch and the fact that when folk pixel-peep to 100% they often see the top left in high magnification. So even in the smaller original upload, the top of the picture is not downsized, only the bottom was. In the larger one, the top of the picture is > 100% size, but there is mainly just sky there so you don't see any stretched pixels. -- Colin (talk) 13:49, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Basile it would be useful for me, rather than just drawing a line on the image, for you to explain why you think the angle is wrong and how you judge what the angle should be. The technique I use is to ensure that verticals that need to be vertical are vertical (like the building). Horizontals aren't relevant AFAIK unless one is taking architectural shot where one is expected to be perpendicular to the facing wall, or one is photographing the sea and the horizon is in the frame. What you seem to have indicated is the bank of the port at Copenhagen. This is only 200m from me at the nearest point and 1km from me at the opera house. So I'm not expecting the bank to be horizontal in the frame, due to perspective. -- Colin (talk) 08:30, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • There is a tilt in this picture like there was a tilt in this one recently File:Nolan_warthogs_(Phacochoerus_africanus_africanus)_juveniles_drinking.jpg before it was corrected. And wildlife it is not architectural photography. Wrong horizontal is unpleasant, the problem is just there. Now the photo only needs a rotation of 0,65 degrees to look normal. This will also improve the angle of the masts. Concerning the buildings, the transformation won't affect their verticality because they're so small, such angle has no influence on so little objects. But the inclination of the water sure will stop looking strange, pitching like the boat. The horizon is there : that bank, located at equal distance left and right. It is definitely not 200 meters vs 1 kilometers, because the height of the wall and the height of the guardrail is the same on the left and on the right. An object located at 1 km would look smaller than at 200 meters, this is an elementary rule in perspective : File:Perspective1.jpg. The fact that a perfectly straight strip of regular thickness can link the left and the right of the bank whithout any deformation nor perspective effect clearly indicates the equidistance of the camera from those two points. This is visible on the link given above : in red the wrong inclination, in white the right one. Due to this equidistance, the water should be flat and perfectly horizontal. Only the water around the boat is logically tilted, due to the (very visible) perspective -- Basile Morin (talk) 09:58, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I will check the verticals again tonight. But the bank is not equidistant. Please follow the geo coordinates and look wehre the "Nyholm Central Guardhouse" is and "Copenhagen Opera House" is. I have measured it and the distances are 200m to the near bank and 1km to the opera house. A bank is not a horizon, and can be very misleading which may be causing your optical upset. I don't see any guardrail on the right of the boat. I do see a car which looks very tiny compared to the two vehicles on the left of the boat. If you look on Bing maps with the aerial view then you can see the actual ship in the water. And you can see the water-edge goes in and out and in and out and has a long way to go to reach the opera house. -- Colin (talk) 10:51, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per above. This boat measures only 78 meters. The photo was not taken with a telephoto, it was shot with a wide angle of 16mm only. To get such a large image of a ship with a 16mm focal lens, the camera needs to be located at about 30m only from the subject, not further. The boat is attached to the bank on the right side with a visible rope. This rope doesn't measure 1 km. Compared to the size of the boat, this rope measures maybe 80 meters maximum, no more. Addition : 30+78+80 = 188 meters. The camera is located at 188 meters maximum from the point where the boat is attached. The Opera house is far behind, and the ship is no way attached to the Opera house . If the Nyholm Central Guardhouse is located "closer" at 200 meters, then it's just fine. We can see the bank is a continuity from left to right. Exactly the same height and exactly the same direction. The guardrail on the left is regular too : no perspective deformation. Only the water is leaning right. This bank can be considered as a horizon as long as the distance to the left is the same than to the right, which is obviously the case here. Water is always flat, so should be horizontality -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:47, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Interesting inspectory work, haha! Having walked along that area for a couple of times, had to check it out too. I think Basile is right based on this pic: The banks on the left and right are a continuation (maybe a 20 metre shift or smth) and should be level. Nevertheless, I like the picture enough. Manelolo (talk) 15:03, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Basile. Ok I see the thing you are talking about and it is not a "bank" and not a "horizon". There is a very thin strip of defensive wood or concrete structure sticking out into the water at various angles as can be seen on Bing maps or the photograph linked above. There isn't a wall or guardrail on the right that I can see, whereas on the left I can see the port bank concrete wall and guardrail behind/above this wooden strip. Measuring on Bing it so happens by complete chance that the wooden strip is placed at various angles from where I guess my camera was that it is around 165m on both sides. I will have another go at levelling it tonight. But I have found all this talk of horizon and water being flat to be a complete red herring. If those strips of wood were at any other angle, they would be quite hopeless as a guide, and there is certainly no horizon in this photo. -- Colin (talk) 16:00, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Basile, Manelolo, I have uploaded a new version with altered horizontals. Hope that is better for you. I think we got there in the end! -- Colin (talk) 21:35, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
✓  Horizontal now -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:24, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Cementerio de la fiebre del oro, Skagway, Alaska, Estados Unidos, 2017-08-26, DD 45-47 PAN.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Gold Rush Cemetery, Skagway, Alaska, USA
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File:Serranía de Hornocal up close near Humahuaca.jpg, featured[edit]

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Serranía de Hornocal up close
Yes, that'll do.--Peulle (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi, Ikan Kekek. I would say that this picture is faithful to the experience of seeing it with your own eyes. But that does not mean that it is unaltered from the RAW-data that comes directly out of the camera. In addition to some basic highlights and shadows adjustments, the vibrance adjustment is +15, and saturation +5 in lightroom. The RAW-data always comes out a bit flat and need some adjustment to bring the viewer into the experience of being there. But the question is always how much is to much?
I added this comment to this picture because way to many abuse the saturation slider in pictures of the hornocal, i.e. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hornocal.JPG. Then people get disappointed when they actually see it in real life. In stead of hiding the fact that it is adjusted, I thought I might tell the audience about it in the description. That might not have had the intended effect though, as people might then believe that it is actually something wrong with my color adjustment because most of the time people do not ad such comments.
With that being said, a discussion of what but be a faithful representation of the hornocal is interesting and I can upload the unedited raw-picture when I get home so you can compare. --Havardtl (talk) 09:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That would be interesting, but I am satisfied with your explanation and  Support. You might change the description to "colors enhanced from the raw file to reflect how they actually looked in person", or something like that. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:19, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • To be honest, Havardtl, I think if you have achieved the colours you think you saw in person, then there is really no need for the description in the raw file, and it gives the wrong impression. If anything, you might want a comment saying "these colours are faithful to how I saw the scene". There isn't actually an "unedited raw-picture" you could upload -- just whatever Canon or Adobe consider to be neutral. I see from your EXIF you chose "Adobe Standard" profile for Lightroom, which is a reference profile and well calibrated, but also has a tendency to lack any pop and can look flat compared to the out-of-camera JPG. If you change this instead to "Camera Standard" then this is Adobe's attempt to simulate the profile that Canon use for their JPGs. You might prefer this and it may give your images a better starting point [set the profile before making any other adjustments]. I use that mode for my camera (Sony) and prefer the result to the Adobe Standard, though the Canon one will be different again. The other profiles (Portrait, Natural, etc) are less likely to be faithful to any degree. I don't think the adjustments you made are any more than most people do here, and not in any way to deceive the viewer with an artificial effect. -- Colin (talk) 09:59, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the input Colin, I have now removed the statement altogether. I have heard about the different camera profiles, but not yet used them. I will make sure to try it out the next time I edit! --Havardtl (talk) 12:40, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Tray with bowls of food cooked for the Buddhist monks of the temple of Don Det, Laos
Which idea ? This is a cultural idea. I'm not going to invent a crystal glass nor a lotus leaf, while these plastic bottles are here, here, here, here, and everywhere. Just showing how things work -- Basile Morin (talk) 04:59, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Not all cultural ideas make for a great photo. "Just showing how things work" works great for Wikipedia FPs, not so much here on Commons. --cart-Talk 07:05, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Well, maybe because things are not working that good ? Actually, Wikipedia FPs are excellent, too. And most of them are featured here also. But how many photos do we have in this category Food and drink ? Only 68. Really little, but if we exclude all the fruits, cereals, brandys and sodas, which are not really "cooked" ingredients, then remain only 17 FPs of food on Commons. Only 17 out of the 10.000 and more. Of course, I won't be surprised if this new nomination fails, and I don't have the intention to force against. Animals, buildings and landscapes have much more chances of success, for the better or for the worse of Commons. Not all cultural ideas make a great photo, that's true, but stereotypical ideas compromise diversity -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:21, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not advocating any stereotypes, just not feeling that wowed by this photo. In fact, I find many of the examples you provided much more interesting since they are more lively than this rather static tray. The compo and angle of this tray is much more imaginative, light and sharpness not that great though. --cart-Talk 12:01, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Martial Caillebotte - Gustave Caillebotte et Bergère sur la place du Caroussel, 1892.jpg, featured[edit]

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  • I think it was, looks like morning fog or smog to me. Much more common in cities in those days. I think it provides a good background for the man, separating him better from the background. The photo would not be as interesting without it. --cart-Talk 08:54, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Puente de San Martín. Toledo, Spain
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File:Luchino Visconti 1972.jpg, featured[edit]

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Portrait of Luchino Visconti, an Italian director.
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File:Centro histórico de Skagway, Alaska, Estados Unidos, 2017-08-18, DD 44.jpg, featured[edit]

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Shops in Skagway Historic District in tradicional wooden style, Alaska, United States.
  •  Support Daniel Case (talk) 01:41, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Cayambe (talk) 06:53, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Am I the only one who feels it should be cropped more from the left? Somehow the extra air disturbs me, hmmh, will have to sleep over it. Manelolo (talk) 14:47, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry, but per above, the 50% downsize of a single-frame photo does not seem justified for any technical reason. Too many modern vehicles and the gawping tourists are not adding to the scene (unlike here). The town is supremely naff with "Jewelryland" -- get your genuine Alaskan gold nuggets here -- and the Skagway Bazaar selling genuine Alaskan pizza for genuine dumb American tourists. There's no great light and no great moment captured. Indeed, if there is a great moment, as Cart notices above, the photographer missed it. The result is just a downsized tourist photo in a lame tourist resort. -- Colin (talk) 21:48, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • For me, the whole point of the photo is the scene depicting a naff, tacky, kitschy piece of modern Alaskan life, tourists included. I find it humorous. I very much doubt that you could find any genuine, unaltered old buildings in a place where the harsh elements (and even harsher inhabitants) raze what is not in use. --cart-Talk 08:15, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • For it to work as a humorous take on a kitchy tourist town, I'd rather see some Martin Parr style approach that mocked the tourists, their big cars, their baby buggies and their smart phones incongruous against some Macdonalds/Disney/Outlet-store version of the Gold Rush. What makes a tourist town is the tourists. This is too much a very standard photo of a street, with inconvenient tourists, small and random in the frame. In dull weather and at only 8MP. So as a photo of buildings or a street, it compares very badly to our "finest work" which is generally very high resolution and good lighting. There's nothing here that raises it above a photo any tourist visiting might take nor anything to take it above QI. It has some novelty value, I suppose, compared to the usual cathedrals and mountains, but it is a fairly significant tourist destination in the area, so not rare. -- Colin (talk) 09:42, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I asked already how this can be. You weren't using an APC-C lens. Does your camera have a "I know I paid $3500 for this magnesium-alloy flagship camera with class leading 50MP sensor, but I'd like you to pretend to be a $400 plastic 12MP Canon Rebel from 2010" mode? Downsized in post or in camera. -- Colin (talk) 22:46, 3 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Guys are you really beating me like this because I accidentally pressed the "Q" Button (what an irony) that decreased the raw file resolution? I cannot think of any other site in the WWW, where I get these blows for something like this. Maybe I indeed should sell my 5DS and buy a 12 MPx Canon Rebel so that I don't have to stand all this.
Community: spend your money in better equipment instead of something that improves your life and get ready for attacks if you don't exploit the technical possibilites of it for whatever reasons... --Poco2 09:45, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I've never heard of this Q button. I don't have a Canon. I've never heard of a mode where the raw file is lower resolution (other than the crop mode for APS-C lenses on full frame camera). I asked about this above and you chose not to respond. Either way, I don't see how a dull-light 8MP image of a street is any more than a QI. Such images are very very routinely rejected at FPC and there are thousands of them at QI. Poco, who else here do you see nominating 8MP architecture photos in bad light? This photo of mine doesn't have great light (and was rightly criticised for that), but is an astounding set of buildings and the photo has 114MP of detail. The standard for architecture at FP, which one can see from browsing the link above, is rather higher than we have here. -- Colin (talk) 10:04, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I rather see original 8 than 114 MPx shot, i can open it. But here so you made a mistake, pushing that Q, so its still downsized from orignal mode. Is that still FP-worthable ? I dont know what Community will respond, i would say FP image becomes FP because photographer also know camera setting. --Mile (talk) 10:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mile, we are a repository of images, not a publisher. The "i can't open it" argument is rather feeble. You can view the 114MP image at 22MP, 14MP, or any other size. The zoomviewer lets you examine large photos in detail. And you may download the image and open it any photo viewer. Attempting to view a 114MP image at 100% in a browser is only one option and it is MediaWiki/Common's current UI failure that it is the main one you attempt. -- Colin (talk) 15:20, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Mishkenot Sha'ananim.jpg, not featured[edit]

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General view of Mishkenot Sha’ananim it's the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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James's flamingoes in Laguna Colorada
  • Thanks for the critique, but what we are discussing is how "good" the images is, and it is here the opinion wars begin. To me the picture is of a group of flamingos, and the crop and wideness of the photo is good for showing just that. As the volcano is not the main subject of the photo it is not important that the whole of it is shown, but you see enough to set the scene for the flamingos. I actually think that it is better that you do not see the whole volcano, because that is such a typical subject that it is more interesting to see something different. --Havardtl (talk) 15:44, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I believe that the way the volcano is cropped is partly why I like this picture, thus it is part of an opinion discussion. But I did really like your critique, exactly because your view is different from my view it emphasizes how different people see pictures differently! I referred to opinion wars because I wanted to emphasize that I did not try to discredit your view, just offer a different one. But I do see now that this is not very clear from my formulation. --Havardtl (talk) 15:37, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Good point about the heads, and I think that is a good enough reason to not be a FP, so  I withdraw my nomination. Being aware of the background while taking a photo is definitely one of the hardest parts of taking photos. --Havardtl (talk) 15:37, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Xiangqi in Sara D. Roosevelt Park (00185).jpg, not featured[edit]

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Xiangqi in Sara D. Roosevelt Park
  • Category: Commons:Featured pictures/People
  •  Info created and uploaded by Rhododendrites - nominated by W.carter -- cart-Talk 15:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support This one has been one of my favorites for a long time and it's time to give it a shot. This little group so intent on the game, all with relaxed poses, all taking a break from the world outside the park, the only reminder of a turbulent world is the newspaper that acts like a time marker. Here the newspaper is quite accidental but it is the sort of composition that many painters, illustrators and cartoonists use as markers for time and mood contrast. --cart-Talk 15:22, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose No. Sorry ... no. You can't see the game, can't see the players, can hardly see any faces at all, the crops are all over the place and you don't get any sense of excitement going on when they play. It just looks like somebody walked along the street with a camera and clicked the button in the general direction of the table without thinking too much about the result. The two men blocking your view are particularly disturbing. --Peulle (talk) 15:43, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Peulle. Compare this image. It might not be feature-quality, but you can see everything that you can't see in this one. Daniel Case (talk) 03:25, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Boring people seen from behind, unfortunate crop on the left, unsharp game, insignificant blue bag and newspaper -- Basile Morin (talk) 05:45, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Body language is often more expressive than facial expressions and that is the main element in this photo. To me it speaks volumes and makes for a very interesting image, more than just an instructive photo of what the game looks like. --cart-Talk 08:05, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • I like these "capturing normal people in normal activities without their guard on" photos where you can explore their bodies and faces. The game isn't the focus of the pic, it's just a MacGuffin. The expression of Hillary on the newspaper gives it a bit of interesting nuance. I only wish that the guy in the background, with the boyo-type hand-on-hip pose, would be sharper. Pondering. Manelolo (talk) 11:50, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak  Support I really like it - just a shame the guy in the back is a bit out of focus. But guess that goes with the game of taking real life pics. (PS. just noticed how the chap on the left is looking at the game like it's a matter of life and death.) Manelolo (talk) 18:29, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose. No good composition -- Lothar Spurzem (talk) 15:01, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Not one I would've considered nominating myself. I mean, I rather like the composition, with the whole frame crammed with different sorts of people, all intently focused on the game with not one of them looking away/distracted (it's why I uploaded this one rather than a few others), but it indeed has some technical shortcomings pointed out above that I cannot disagree with. Part of what makes this scene interesting to me is the knowledge that this is in just by the entrance to a popular playground, and somehow this bubble of concentration is surrounded by the loud chaos of screaming children, a crowd of people with strollers, and generally busy crowd milling about. :) I will say that while it may not be everyone's cup of tea, I do think it's much more appropriate for FP than the image Daniel linked (granted, he qualified it along those lines). That one he linked shows the game quite well, and has people watching, but the colors are flatter, people are looking away, stuff is happening in the background. I.e. it's about the game, rather than the, err, "bubble of concentration". :) This nominated image would clearly be terrible if it were actually about the game itself. Anyway, I can understand why it doesn't seem like the technical issues will be something others can look past, but I will say that cart's reasoning resonates (not the first time she has given me some added appreciation for one of my own images). :) — Rhododendrites talk |  15:08, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination I guess it's about time now. Thanks for your interest. --cart-Talk 19:48, 12 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:The Fairmont Empress, blue hour.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Vineyard in Napa Valley (01935).jpg, not featured[edit]

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Mustard blooms in a vineyard in California
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File:Warriors of Lapland.jpg, featured[edit]

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Warriors of Lapland
  •  Support A classic Scandinavian winter pose. From time to time we all turn our noses to the sun with closed eyes, just to enjoy a little bit of light and warmth during the cold dark season. --cart-Talk 09:52, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Yann (talk) 04:05, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support per others. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:18, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I was prepared to see some film grain, but whatever was done here in post-processing (contrast-enhancement, denoise?) has introduced some very strong digital artefacts. They are visible in the first version as well, but they seem to kind of blend in with the natural grain pattern (or the part of it the scanner was able to resolve), so I wouldn't object to them. The current version (as of 16:05, 4 March 2018), however, is far away from our best digital reproductions of analog photographs. In general, I think it's not a good idea to try to remove grain from analog black and white photographs. It is an integral part of the photographic process, not a sampling error like the noise from a digital sensor. Whether you like its appearance or not, removing it would mean that the digital reproduction is not true to the analog original.
That version for my taste also goes a bit too far in terms of increasing contrast. But it's of course difficult to estimate how this would have looked like as a finalized image when all you have to work from is the negative – "the proof is in the print", as people used to say …
Concerning the photograph itself: I like it, but I think I would indeed prefer the other one. It shows a deeper connection between man and animal through both physical and eye contact. --El Grafo (talk) 11:07, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@El Grafo: Thx for the critique, I'll be sure to take note in the future! I also noticed the artefacts being more pronounced with increased contrast and was somewhat worried by it (hence the couple of tryouts). But then again, the overall picture is IMHO a lot better and represents how it most likely was in actuality. That is, I surmise the day was cloudless and extra shiny due to the reflection from the snow (hence, enjoying the warm sun) while the original displays it as gloomy cloud cover. Manelolo (talk) 11:33, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--cart-Talk 09:49, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Via Giuseppe Mazzini. Ferrara, Italy
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St. Peter's Church is a Franciscan church in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Pregnant woman (third trimester of pregnancy)
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Female Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) incubates eggs in a nest.
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Oppersdorfe's palace in Ołdrzychowice Kłodzkie
  • Most upload aids were created in connection to some WLM and to get everything on the upload they usually connect it to automated additions like this. They probably think no one will use that upload channel during other times. If you use that upload service during off-WLM times you have to remove that template manually. I have removed the {{Wikiwakacje 2017|monuments}} from this photo. If you have other photos with the same problem, please remove those templates yourself. You could use the Upload Wizard (click on Upload file in the left-hand column on any page), but then you don't get the automatic number for the monument and have to add that yourself. --cart-Talk 19:35, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Transport of recycled material on a freight bicycle in Shanghai
Lol :D --Peulle (talk) 15:16, 5 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Eutropis macularia (bronze grass skink) eating a frog

 I withdraw my nomination -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:32, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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With this level of contrast, yes.--Peulle (talk) 10:15, 6 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Market town Hüttenberg, Carinthia, Austria
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Hôpital Saint-François d'Assise, Québec
 I withdraw my nomination I am using Photomatix to create this HDR image, maybe I am doing something wrong. Anyway, thanks for the reviews and feedback --The Photographer 11:26, 14 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Lanterns in Rishikesh
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View of the rich frescos and ceiling of the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan
  • cart: thanks for your version, looks good. At the same time my last version and yours look pretty close to me. What difference do you see? what means Daniel with split-toning tool in Camera Raw? I'd like to have a look into that --Poco2 07:11, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Poco a poco: The main difference in my version is that the colors are more homogeneous. The basis of this is the Split Toning (tutorial) you can do in Lightroom. Daniel just didn't remembered the name for it correctly. It's a tool you use to adjust the color temperature of highlights and shadows separately, you can make them the same or you can make them more different for effect. It works best if you have only one kind of light source, like sunshine. Here you have two conflicting light sources (like Colin pointed out) so it is not enough to use just split toning. The top left of the pic is mostly cold/blue/magenta/desaturated toned and the bottom right is warm/yellow/green/saturated. First of all you have to counter this by using two main gradient filters diagonally. You set the filters to the reverse of what you have in the two parts of the pic and the result is more harmonious. After that you can use a small mild version of the same settings to go over and touch up the pic the the brush. That way you get to fix individual areas. When the colors are more the same over the pic, you will find that this has affected the light in the photo since warm, saturated areas are usually darker than the cold/desaturated, and you have to fix this by using gradient filters for exposure. It is all done in the same session in Lightroom, no Photoshop involved. Fixing light is always easier in LR than PS. Hope you understand some of this, It's not easy put into words exactly what I do. ;-) --cart-Talk 10:45, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for the detail answer, cart. To be honest, I've never used the split toning. The other adjustments is mostly what I did in the last version. I also played with the split toning but the differences where really hard to notice, I think, I would leave it as it is. Poco2 16:56, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's ok. I mostly wanted to see if it could be improved upon at all. :) For me when presenting an FPC, I'm never satisfied with just getting a picture through a nomination, I always want to try to make my photos as good as my raw material, equipment and knowledge can make them, even if it's overkill. --cart-Talk 19:03, 10 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Blue House - Urtijëi.jpg, not featured[edit]

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"Cesa bruma", the Blue House, Strada Rezia 320, Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy
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File:ANTONY GORMLEY Obere Gipslöcher 14.JPG, featured[edit]

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Horizon Field, Obere Gipslöcher
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File:Bundling Seal Skins.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Original author unknown (connected to the Division of Alaska Fisheries). Edited/uploaded/nominated by me — Rhododendrites talk |  05:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
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File:Hilmteich 09.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Sunset between the branches of a willow at Hilmteich, Graz, Austria.
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Snow crystals glittering in strong direct sunlight
  • Those are areas in the snow, not dust spots. There are no other things than newly fallen snow in the picture, it has not been contaminated by anything yet. Just like some crystals reflect light towards the camera, there are crystals that direct light away from the camera and those crystals become very dark. In this photo some such "dark crytals" with areas where the light is almost cancelled out, are very visible. I forgot to take an overall photo of the snow on the window sill, but this is what they looked like against the window. --cart-Talk 08:14, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Support then. Would make a good album cover (cf. Pink Floyd's Obscured by Clouds, and others I'm sure you or other people could think of). Daniel Case (talk) 00:21, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I think, this is more a theme for binoculars than for a normal camera. You would have avoided the blue/green/red fringes and you would have obtained a much more detailed photo of the snowflakes. --Llez (talk) 12:40, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'm not sure the rainbows are a result of the lens, the crystals also fracture the light into colors the same way a normal prism does. If they were all due to the lens, they should all look the same but that is not the case. In some photos you get predominant blue fringes as well as magenta from different crystals depending on their angle. Anyway, this is the only way I have of doing such close-up photos. I'm nominating this since they are beautiful, interesting and I've never seen anything like them before. Perhaps they will inspire someone with better equipment than me to try something similar. --cart-Talk 13:27, 7 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Wandelen over de Planken Wambuis vanuit Mossel 43.jpg, featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION
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File:Mezquita de Nasirolmolk, Shiraz, Irán, 2016-09-24, DD 57-59 HDR.jpg, featured[edit]

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Ceiling of the interior of the Nasir-ol-Molk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran.
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File:Ski resort 3 sinaia romania.jpg, not featured[edit]

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snow mountain view (Sinaia, Romania)
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File:Tasman Lake 03.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Tasman Lake in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand

 Oppose per Baso.--Peulle (talk) 16:09, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Wesseling Refinery at Dusk, March 2018.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Rheinland Raffinerie Werk Süd, Wesseling, Germany, during blue hour.
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File:Vista de Vejer de la Frontera, Cádiz, España, 2015-12-09, DD 14-19 PAN.JPG, not featured[edit]

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Panoramic view of Vejer de la Frontera, Province of Cádiz, Andalusia, Spain.
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Panoramic view of the village of Rožden, Macedonia
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File:Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX 2017-02-05, DD FS.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Canon Macro Ring Lite MR-14EX.
You have many great images that I'd like to support once they are nominated, but I certainly wouldn't nominate those of my own images that I don't consider worthy. Many of my recent images for instance are not what I'd call good QIs, so I won't nominate them there even though there's room in the quota. Just bring us your finest work; surely a skilled 'tog like you can see which of your images have a good chance of succeeding?--Peulle (talk) 15:43, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:British wounded Bernafay Wood 19 July 1916.jpg, featured[edit]

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Wounded soldiers 1916
While I would call your suggested crop a good choice on other photos, I don't feel good about doing this to an historic image of this importance. It should be kept in as original a condition as possible, IMO - perhaps digital quality restoration could be considered, but I would not touch the composition.--Peulle (talk) 11:28, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Buddhist monks procession in front of a pyre.jpg, featured[edit]

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Buddhist monks procession in front of a pyre
  • Holding a rope linked to the coffin is a ritual called chungsob (ຈູງສົບ in lao) in relation with the soul of the deceased. This rope will not be incinerated and may be kept by the monks. Traditionally, cotton strings play an important role in ceremonies in Laos, like in the baci, and can be used in various ways at diverse occasions. In front of the coffin, there is a Buddhist money trees, religious item with authentic banknotes, an offering to the monks -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:17, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Diodora spreta 01.JPG, featured[edit]

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Diodora spreta (Smith, 1901); Length 2.5 cm; Originating from Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
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File:Moon in Sunrise Sky 2.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Sunrise with a crescent moon
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File:Vista de Tiflis, Georgia, 2016-09-29, DD 31-33 PAN.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Panoramic view of the city of Tbilisi, capital of Georgia from Narikala.
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File:Alpe di Siusi - View from Seceda.jpg, not featured[edit]

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View from the Seceda, South Tyrol, to the Seiser Alm
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File:Alamo Sq Painted Ladies 3, SF, CA, jjron 26.03.2012.jpg, not featured[edit]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION

 I withdraw my nomination Tomer T (talk) 14:28, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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File:Pedestrians' area onboard car ferry MS Gullbritt.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Pedestrians' area onboard car ferry MS Gullbritt
  • I agree that it may not be the easiest photo to get through a nom, but I wanted to give it a go anyway since there simply are no interiors in the FP Water transport category at all. Someone has to try. --cart-Talk 19:37, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Fresque des Québécois mural, petit champlain, Québec city.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Fresque des Québécois mural, petit champlain, Québec city
I cant see any leaning in the structure and if you are using some house over there like a vertical reference, remember that these houses are from the fifteenth century --The Photographer 14:10, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I think you got your numbers mixed up there. ;) "fifteenth century" means 1400-1500. The first structure in Québec was built in 1535 and "In 1665, there were 550 people in 70 houses living in the city." I very much doubt they lived in such large houses. "Most of the buildings date to the 19th century, although some 17th and 18th centuries remain as well." --cart-Talk 15:18, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Tasman Lake panorama (03-05-06-07).jpg, featured[edit]

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Tasman Lake panorama
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File:Valley of Tasman River NZ 12.jpg, featured[edit]

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Valley of Tasman River in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in the South Island, New Zealand
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File:Leiden, zicht op Kort Galgewater vanaf Prinsessekade foto13 2017-06-11 10.24.jpg, not featured[edit]

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view to canal Kort Galgewater
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File:Wachtküppel (Nordwestansicht).jpg, featured[edit]

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Wachtküppel in the Rhoen Mountains
I was told in the QI review to spend more light and I have done so. Possible to give further more. But I don´t know if it's really required. Other fast opinions? I get offline for the next week. --Milseburg (talk) 10:46, 11 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Église Saint-Médard, between 1898 and 1915, not featured[edit]

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File:Inside Pichavaram Mangrove Forest.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Inside Pichavaram Mangrove Forest

Alternative[edit]

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File:Noel, Léon, Nadar, Gallica.jpg, featured[edit]

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Léon Noël
The link to Gallica works now and with these changes I'm happy to  Support. :) --Peulle (talk) 09:46, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Béla Kun, Jacques Sadoul, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Frunze, Sergey Gusev 1920.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Béla Kun, Jacques Sadoul, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Frunze and Sergey Gusev. Kharkiv Ukraine 1920. Russian Civil War.
 Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: Bad quality, even for that date. This needs restoration, but even with that, I doubt it would get FP. Historically significant, but that's not sufficient to be FP. Also the license needs to be fixed. We now have {{PD-Russia}} and {{PD-RU-exempt}}, which are redondant, if not contradictory. Yann (talk) 07:31, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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File:Gleusdorf Schloss Hochwasser P1063565.jpg, featured[edit]

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Flooded fields near the village of Gleusdorf in the Itz valley
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File:Schlüsselau Störche Nest P4RM1792.jpg, featured[edit]

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Mating storks on the nest
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File:Parrocchiale San Felice del Benaco interno.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Internal view of the parish church of San Felice del Benaco on lake Garda
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File:Line scan photo of nine car BART C1 train in 2017.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Bay Area Rapid Transit
 Comment Is this a reason for opposing? We want the FP images on Commons to be as good as possible, no?--Peulle (talk) 15:36, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mile, this is not a valid reason to oppose and is disruptive and harmful to the project. We are a repository of images. That you haven't figured out where the Zoom viewer link is yet, is your problem. Here is 50% size 26.7MP. Did you know that warning message used to be used on any picture > 2000px high (i.e. 6MP) and the Template:LargeImage current recommendation is 50MP, which some cameras produce natively. Technology moves on, Commons slowly develops a better UI and browsers get better. Let's not start placing silly restrictions on max image size at FP. -- Colin (talk) 16:30, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Techincally is good shot (with some vertical lines in black part - scaned), with low usefulness. Trainspotter would like more normal picture, for instance check Kaberllager train shots. Dont know where is this going, with MPx, i love 2007 FP shots much more than 2017. I dont have so fast link, treat me like avarage Wiki user (Common user), in this case we have problems to see. --Mile (talk) 11:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mile, the Commons UI could be greatly improved. It should be easier than fiddling with URLs to get versions of the image at 50% size or any size. But we are stuck with offering the image at 1280xNNN max size offered or else full size. The zoom viewer is always available even on modestly large images (e.g. 24MP) though sometimes the tool is broken. If you have difficulty viewing images then please complain to WMF and encourage the community to demand better web site. It is absolutely not the fault of any photographer here that they create large images. Elsewhere on the web, people are taking and uploading gigapixel images and 3D interactive videos and Commons is still stuck with opening the JPG full size in a browser. On Commons FP, we really shouldn't be concerned with the Commons UI making it hard for anyone with a slow link to appreciate a photo. Even the slowest link can use the Zoom viewer. -- Colin (talk) 11:13, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Reichenau St Margarethen 1 Pfarrkirche hl Margaretha Christophorus-Fresko 17092015 7622.jpg, featured[edit]

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Fresco of Saint Christopher at the Roman Catholic parish church Saint Margaret, Reichenau, Carinthia, Austria
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File:Church of the Dormition, Argeș monastery (by Pudelek) 02.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Church of the Dormition, Argeș monastery, Romania
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File:DMARS EVA Sol2 Drone.jpg, not featured[edit]

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D-Mars Analog EVA, Ramon Crater, Israel


 Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: it is too small. --cart-Talk 20:23, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
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File:Saint-François d'Assise church, Limoilou, Québec city, Quebec State, Canadá.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Saint-François d'Assise church, Limoilou, Québec city, Quebec State, Canadá
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File:Crooked buildings in Amsterdam 2017.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Crooked buildings in Amsterdam
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File:Cloister of the University of Bergamo. Italy.jpg, featured[edit]

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Cloister of the University of Bergamo
  • See 1st shot, cycler and zombi, have them in dozens while on bicycle, thats why mentioning. And see, its there. We should get some good FP for this. --Mile (talk) 08:14, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Perhaps you could park your bike, take your camera and just stand at some busy crossing for a while like that photographer did. With your camera and skills you would probably get some very good shots. --cart-Talk 10:24, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Two grasshoppers mating.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Two mating grasshoppers


 Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: it is too small since the minimum limit for FPC photos is 2 Mpx and this one is just 1000 x 667 makes 0.667 Mpx. If you have this in higher resolution, please upload it, until then the photo is declined. --cart-Talk 12:38, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.
Alright. Thank you user:W.carter; will upload a more higher resolution again now.Kaizenify (talk) 12:54, 22 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Sir Alec Guinness Allan Warren.jpg, not featured[edit]

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A portrait of English actor Sir Alec Guinness, taken in 1973.
  • @Ikan Kekek: being taken in 1973, this is very likely to be a scan from a slide – it's very easy to mix up the orientation with these. Since it was the photographer himself who changed the orientation I'd assume that the newer one is correct. --El Grafo (talk) 08:33, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Hallstatt evangelische Kirche 20180206.jpg, featured[edit]

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Lutheran Parish Church of Hallstatt, Upper Austria
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File:Wandelen over de Planken Wambuis vanuit Mossel 071.jpg, featured[edit]

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It would be interesting to clone out the whole right tree, if possible. -- -donald- (talk) 08:03, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - I don't mind the tree branches on the right side. In fact, I think they sort of balance the composition - my eye sees the sun as its own element, so having something to the right of the specimen tree helps improve visual flow through the frame. –Juliancolton | Talk 15:17, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Gymnopilus viridans (Murrill) Hesler 363906.jpg, featured[edit]

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Gymnopilus viridans
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St. Nicholas Cathedral at Dobrush, Belarus
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File:Een ijzige wind waait over de Put van Nederhorst 03.jpg, not featured[edit]

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File:Visitors of Musée du Louvre, Paris 7 June 2017.jpg, not featured[edit]

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You can get this kind of shadow pattern from anything with a grid shape.--Peulle (talk) 15:38, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
True, but you'd have to build that grid first. ;) A picture-Google doesn't turn up any grid shadows like the ones from the pyramid. --cart-Talk 16:27, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
And if you don't recognize the net-shadow, there is also the analogy of "two people caught by/surfing the net" or a commentary on a world where everyone is in their own little box instead of interacting or moving like pawns on a great surreal chess board and so on. If you look at this and only see some shadow lines with CA (now removed), you're not really looking at the photo.
Btw, I just looked at the source of the photo and the original title is: "e-Chess - Two mini-people on a large electronic playing field" so the author was thinking along those lines too. Now added to the description. --cart-Talk 17:31, 16 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:BMW Welt y Torre BMW, Múnich, Alemania, 2015-07-03, DD 25-27 HDR.JPG, not featured[edit]

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Night view of the BMW Welt and the BMW Headquarters, known as the "4 Cylinders", Munich, Germany.
The problem I have is the logo on the front of the building, not the one facing the camera. It looks like a cartoonish blob. Daniel Case (talk) 20:54, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Daniel: do you mean the logo on the top of the BMW headquarters that is looking to the right? Poco2 07:03, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Poco a poco: Yes. I assume it's circular; it should thus look like an elongated ellipse from this angle. Daniel Case (talk) 18:29, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Grass Yellow Butterfly
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General view of the chapel of the Rosary in St Domingo church in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador.
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File:Dom Aachen 001.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Ramstein AB Airmen honor U.S. veterans in Belgium 171111-F-ZF730-0486.jpg, featured[edit]

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Ramstein AB Airmen honor U.S. veterans in Belgium
Oops! It had been getting late at the time. Daniel Case (talk) 15:08, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Diodora calyculata 01.jpg, featured[edit]

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Diodora calyculata (Sowerby, 1823); Length 2.5 cm; Originating from Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
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Paratrooper Cpl Ian Chapman prepares to jump from a C-130J Super Hercules
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File:Line scan photo of nine car BART C1 train in 2017.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Scrollable version of above

* Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:17, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

for the time being... per Colin, sorry. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:51, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
wrong colors -- Basile Morin (talk) 14:02, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --cart-Talk 10:57, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Great work! --Yann (talk) 11:14, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  strong oppose Sorry to be the one, but well, the colours are just completely wrong. The image is somewhat darker, which might explain how you are happier with the US flag, and the white letters are fairly white, so I don't know enough about how your program figures out the coloured areas to know what went wrong. Look at the right end of the photo for the "Bay Area Rapid Transit Police" advert. The logo is yellow and blue. Look at the "BART ba" logo, which is black and blue. And of course the wheelchair disabled logo is blue. Scroll along a bit for the "Kaiser Permanente" advert. Their corporate colour is blue. The photo of a man in a wheelchair, has the man wearing a blue vest. And of course, the sky should be blue, not green, and sunlight glowing off the track should be golden, not magenta-orange. In the middle, the United Airlines advert should be blue and gold. In the previous version, the colours were much better, though the overall white balance was a little cool perhaps.
  • I suggest you try calibrating your software with some known colours (e.g. official corporate colours) or by taking a photo with your Sony camera and processing it using known good software, then comparing with your custom gear/software. Perhaps you've already done that, but then something has gone wrong here. There isn't much point in having 96MP of the wrong colours. Sorry.
  • And I should mention that to be fully correct, you really need to add the appropriate EXIF colourspace tag to the JPG and embed an sRGB colourspace profile. You can use exiftool to add this. I know you like free software, so you can get a fully free sRGB profile by downloading Argyll CMS. Their profiles are top quality too. -- Colin (talk) 12:56, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral per Colin. He's right, the colors are not yet perfect. I do, however, salute your efforts in removing that sensor defect. They will definitely be of value to others in the future, even if it didn't turn the trick here. (And it is in any event a lot of fun to scroll this image to the left). Daniel Case (talk) 15:17, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The most impressive scroll I've taken in a while.--RaboKarbakian (talk) 02:35, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - I regret that I must agree with Colin's observations. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 02:52, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination @Colin: Good observation! I admit I didn't look carefully at the regions you pointed out, as I was more concerned about denoising and the sharpness of the 4096 px tall image than about colour accuracy. Due to the long time needed to process the whole image, during development of the demosaicing algorithms I was mostly looking at a smaller test section which didn't include the regions you mentioned (I've since then updated my test set to include those regions). After reading your comment, I've started working on colour calibration. Here's a MATLAB script I hacked together over the weekend to perform colour calibration in linear colourspace. The strategy is to display a sequence of random colours (warning: flashing colours) using a well-calibrated sRGB monitor such as my calibrated Dell P2415Q with the camera pressed against the monitor without a lens. The line scan camera response is shown here for one of the pixels plotted against time. The reason for using a sequence of colours over time instead of a single photo of a test chart is because the calibration may vary from pixel to pixel. In this image, the top 1/9th of the image are true (ground truth) colours, the middle 4/9th of the image are raw uncalibrated colours from the line scan camera, and the bottom 4/9th of the image are the calibrated colours. From a visual inspection, the calibrated colours match the true colours quite well. Since the response of the line scan camera seems to vary across the length of the sensor, a separate calibration (3 × 4 matrix mapping raw RGGB values to linear sRGB values) is performed for each of the pixels across the sensor. Notice that pixel-to-pixel variations, which manifest as subtle horizontal stripes in the middle row, have been all but eliminated in the bottom of the image (the effect is more visible in the 300 MB full size lossless image, which is too difficult to share here). In this plot for one of the pixels, you can see that the calibrated sensor response is fairly linear -- not perfect, but OK for now. I'll work on incorporating the calibration results into my demosaicing program this week.
For future work, I may get a test chart and point the camera at each of the squares of the test chart in sequence using a known white light source, in case there are issues with my monitor's spectral emission. I also suspect that the camera's red channel gets much higher noise in the top half of the image when the camera heats up. This would explain why the shadows in the top half of the image are so reddish, a phenomenon which I've also observed in other line scan photos.
p.s. as for the BART ba logo, I have no idea why the "b" on car 349 isn't black. It's black on all the other cars. I totally agree about the blue being too green, and the yellow being far too red, though.
p.p.s. for the original upload, I manually adjusted the white balance and used a highly nonlinear tone curve to raise the shadows compared to the unprocessed version. The second version was automatically generated. dllu (t,c) 01:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
dllu I second Martin's comments. Be careful with your monitor -- the colours may shift as it warms up; the monitor display itself may not be consistent in brightness across the screen; pixels viewed not straight-on may be shifted in colour/contrast/brightness. Wrt calibration, perhaps you can explain more how your monitor is calibrated on your talk page, if you want to talk more there. -- Colin (talk) 07:32, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Colin, you won't believe what a stupid bug it was that caused the inaccurate colors. I can't believe it took months for me to realize this. The problem is that I accidentally replaced the green channel with a blue channel! It was a one letter typo! [16] No wonder all the yellows became red! here is an updated test image where you can see the yellows are correct. I will continue to tweak and improve things... dllu (t,c) 10:27, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
dllu, thanks for the update and improved image. That's quite a radical defect that I'm quite surprised it even generated an image anyone might think was normal. Perhaps some FPC regulars should get their colour vision tested :-). Actually, when testing colour profiles on my PC, I created a profile with the red and green primaries switched. If you install it on your PC as the profile of your monitor, then it shows up very visibly which software is correctly using the display profile, and which ignore it (Internet Explorer, for example). If embedded into a JPG, it shows up which software uses the embedded profile, and which ignore it (some older versions of Android or iOS). You can see such a JPG here and a simulation of what it looks like with bad software here and there is no mistaking the effect. If only you'd switched red and green, rather than blue and green. -- Colin (talk) 10:43, 30 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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front view of the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE concept at the world premiere in Frankfurt/Main
I have checked it on two computers and there's definitely some noise on the dark parts of the air intake slats in the front.--Peulle (talk) 22:14, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Peulle, I have also checked on two computers. I even increased the brightness and saturation to try to bring out some chroma noise. Still none. I can only think you have your monitor set way too bright as those air intake slats should be very dark. Perhaps you have a laptop, which tend to very poor at showing deep black, or which show bad effects if viewed off-angle. But also you really are fixating on technicalities that are irrelevant. There isn't a single quality guide to photography that worries if the image has a little CA or noise; other things matter. A picture never became wow because it was noise or CA free and a picture never lost its wow because it had either. Do I need to remind you that at 100DPI this image is 1.5 metres across and you'd need a 70" monitor to see it all in one go. At that size, the recommended viewing distance is 1.75m - 2.6m. Can you see the chroma noise from that distance? Do you wander round an art gallery with a magnifying glass? If not, why is that a suitable way to judge an digital photograph? -- Colin (talk) 08:28, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Peulle: Thanks for the input. If the noise problem is the only problem you see, I will look into it. --MB-one (talk) 14:37, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment The background is a deliberate part of the composition here. I took shots while the video wall was black, but they where quite boring in contrast. --MB-one (talk) 14:41, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Not aesthetically pleasant in my opinion. It looks like an unfinished sketch with garish colors and absolutely no link with the car -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:04, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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File:Papaver oriëntale. Locatie, Tuinen Mien Ruys 02.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Large white (Pieris brassicae) underside.jpg, featured[edit]

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File:Beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) male 3.jpg, featured[edit]

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Beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) male

* Comment File name needs to be changed. It should be factual and not contain any emotionally charged words such as "beautiful". But it would probably be best move the file after the nom is closed to avoid the same mess you had with a previous nom. --cart-Talk 01:27, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Aha! I simply didn't know that was a part of the official name for this demoiselle. I've obviously spent too much time on WP correcting neutral POV. ;) Comment striked and of course I apologize to Charles. Thanks Martin for assuming good faith and telling me this (unlike Yann). --cart-Talk 09:07, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart: Don't take it badly. This insect is indeed beautiful, and the picture is also good, so the qualificative would be deserved, even if it wasn't the same of bug. I thought your comment was a bit harsh, and that you missed a smiley. Regards, Yann (talk) 09:21, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks to all. Many animals are happy with the names we've given them. Others, like the knob-billed duck, cut-throat finch, monotonous lark, lazy cisticola, are less happy! Charles (talk) 09:49, 25 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Cattle Egret. Photo taken in Umm al-Fahm, Israel.
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Young grapevine leaves
  • The Swedish equivalent would be "Château Vaddå". 'Vaddå' translates to "What?" or "Huh?" and is pronounced exactly like the French "va d'eau", giving the name an extra twist. :-} --cart-Talk 10:16, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Portrait of a Laughing kookaburra; Karlsruhe Zoo, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Eyestalk of Lobster
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Gößweinstein castle in Franconian Switzerland in Bavaria
  •  Oppose I can't see any significant change, but accept the idea of a non-vertical wall. However, the lower part of the picture is really too dark, nearly black, lacking of interest -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:51, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Ghanta in Changu Narayan-Changunarayan
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