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- Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Architecture/Religious_buildings#Japan
Info Main Hall of Kiyomizu-dera, Kyoto, Japan, during Koyo, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site Ref. Number 688. All by me, --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:50, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Support -- Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:50, 3 December 2016 (UTC)- Support Great colors, composition, and clouds. Some loss of sharpness on the far edges but that's OK. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 11:04, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Comment - I don't like the right-hand crop. Could you possibly go a bit further to the right to include the entire temple? Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:15, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Unfortunately I can't, Ikan. There were some ugly some wooden barriers that I had to crop. It was really, really crowded but I tried to take pictures from many different angles (cf. my other uploads). Imo this is the best photo I can offer for this kind of motif (main hall plus red trees at daylight). --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:35, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Understood, and thanks for your response. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 11:39, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support It's a pity the crowds can't be avoided but the rest of the photo is great. --cart-Talk 11:57, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 19:13, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support lNeverCry 20:07, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support nice colours. Charles (talk) 23:34, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
Oppose Great colors, great composition but unfortunately it loses it for me in the processing. Sky looks sort of unnatural (particularly that shade of blue) and the landscape at left looks distinctly waxy. Neither might be completely avoidable but I'd have tried harder to address them. weak support. It still isn't perfect, but now it looks like it's within the limits the situation imposed. Daniel Case (talk) 02:13, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Daniel. The sky is ok, imo, and pretty close to the real situation I was facing when taking the picture. As for the waxy landscape to the left, well... This is not supposed to be some lame excuse like "The dog ate my homework", but I really tried to work with the raw the best way I could. Oversharpening wouldn't help though. The thing is, the good ol' EF 17-40 is "meh" at best between 17 and 20mm. (I'm actually planning on updating to the rather new and much improved 16-35 4 next year). I haven't cropped much, in fact the image is at (almost) max res as provided by the sensor. So pixelpeeping at 100%, especially when not concentrating on the more central parts of the image, might not be the very best idea. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:34, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Weak support I know it's very hard to avoid well but too many tourists on the stage... and think Daniel is right, the sky is a bit purplish as Japanese sky. P.S. I think this angle is almost the best angle for this structure :) --Laitche (talk) 09:26, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Comment I think there is something wrong with the processing, with what I see it can be a too big decrease of the highlights (that lead to a loss of color brightness) and then a too big increase of the saturation to to compensate. I would be happy to have the RAW file and to make an attempt. Christian Ferrer (talk) 10:00, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Thanks, Christian. Please also note my reply to Daniel. I really didn't overdo processing here. While it is true that I, of course, decreased highlights a bit, I did not overly increase saturation at all. The usual workflow is a bit different with Canon's DPP when compared to Lightroom... suffice it to say: I kept saturation at standard level. --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support Thanks you, it's better now. In all cases, one need to be carefull when decreasing the highlights as this affect color brightness and even maybe a bit the WB too. Now your last version is improverd IMO. Christian Ferrer (talk) 14:49, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Info @King, Ikan, cart, Agnes Monkelbaan, INeverCry, Charles, Daniel, Laitche, Christian: I've very carefully tried to address the issues mentioned above. This isn't a major change, I just tried to "depurple" the sky a bit and to sharpen the "waxy" elements. If one of the supporters disagrees however, I'll revert to the first version. Thanks --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 11:11, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Happy with new version. Charles (talk) 14:40, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 06:39, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
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This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Religious_buildings#Japan
