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•  Info created by ggia - uploaded by ggia - nominated by ggia -- Ggia (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
•  Support newer, higher quality nomination of an old nomination (the first nomination of this image was not nominated by me and the quality was lower). There is some noise in the image (for people that use oppose votes for noise reasons without looking the overall content). -- Ggia (talk) 17:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
•  Support I like the composition. Removing the cablecar lines improved things too. Colin (talk) 20:19, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
•  Support It's nice but I have a few questions:

• You mention it's a panoramic picture, so is it downsampled?
• I don't really care the downsampling issue, but I'm surprised the noise is so visible at ISO400 for a D700. So second question is did you play with curves ? exposures blending ? Or just used a polarizer filter?

And the thumbnail on the Image page doesn't reflect the colours at all (MediaWiki has some serious issues with thumbnails cache management it seems...). - Benh (talk) 20:25, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

 Info No, it is not a stitched panorama.. panoramic here means panoramic (view from the top). Polarized filter is used during shooting the image, denoising algorithm has been applied a little bit to the sky (also to the part of the mountains to upper left), the image was a little tilt and I correct it (this is why the size is not the original size of the D700 resolution). Noise is due to the 400ASA, and probably because I was using "dlighing" (digital lighting) feature of Nikon camera (I am not sure if Dlighting was applied into the raw NEF file). This jpg is exported from the NEF file. Also cloning job has been applied to the lower right part (the cables are not visible any more). I see the problem with the thumbnails.. strange.. isn't it? it keeps the thumbnail of the old image.. Ggia (talk) 21:29, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

• Thanks for the details (D lighting combined with polarizer explains a lot the unusual lighting). Yes the thumbnails issue is strange. Cache aren't refreshed properly. I thought the issue was fixed, but looks like not. - Benh (talk) 21:43, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

•  Oppose too harsh and so very bad light, quite noisy (I don't really understand why ISO 400, 1/640s and f/5,6), low sharpness --kaʁstn Disk/Cat 18:15, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

• For settings, they might be inappropriate, but I think the D-lighting thing requires bump in ISO in order to work (maybe author could confirm) - Benh (talk) 11:51, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

 Comment How can I know that? I remember that in that trip (that I shot this photo) the dlighting feature of Nikon was on.. And in my recent photos I don't use any more dlighting. I usually increase iso settings when I use polarizer.. @Carschten Probably the settings ISO 400, 1/640s and f/5,6 are not the optimal (it will be better idea 1/200 with another diafragm ie. f/11), but the quality is so bad in order to oppose? Did you consider the content / EV of this image during you vote? Ggia (talk) 18:56, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

You could know by reading the manual. On the Canons SLR, highlight tone priority, which I believe does something similar, shrinks the ISO range to 200-6400. - Benh (talk) 23:10, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

I shall say on the 7D at least... Don't know for the others. - Benh (talk) 23:11, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 3 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 06:20, 21 November 2011 (UTC)