Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 4 Sep 2011 at 19:33:53 (UTC)
Visit the nomination page to add or modify image notes.
Featured picture candidates/File:Leon architectural detail.jpgCommons:Featured picture candidates/File:Leon architectural detail.jpg
Comment @ --Archaeodontosaurus Webster defines contrast as the “juxtaposition of dissimilar elements (as color, tone, or emotion) in a work of art.” In this case, from the photographic perspective, your opinion contrasts with the reality of the image. This image has a very wide tonal range, that is, it has pure blacks and pure whites, with lots and lots of grays in the middle, therefore, is not a contrasted image, but the opposite, it is an image with a wide tonal scale. In order to illustrate the point, I have uploaded an image that I posterized with 10 steps of a gray scale, and that means that there are 8 shades of gray between the pure blacks and the pure whites This is the posterized image, compare!. If you look at the image, the posterization is hardly noticeable. And more interesting, look at the histogram of the image, and you will see what I mean. In fact, by looking at the posterized image and the histogram at the same time, one gets a sort of visual cognitive dissonance, due to the fact that the image, instead of becoming very contrasted as it would be expected by a posterization process, somehow manages to maintain a visually acceptable grayscale. So, your evaluation of contrast contrasts with conventional wisdom. Data is data, and the data shows wide gray scale, not contrast. On another note, this image is informative in several ways: it is a dated and geographically localized architectural detail and it is a decent study of a subject interpreted according to zone system photography. It´s ok to oppose and not like a photograph, just use the right reasons. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 22:27, 28 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment w.s. lycaon, hans, or whatever other name you go by, why am I not surprised? If anybody here knows about photo theory it is you. So it is back to the good old days with you! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:28, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Info created, uploaded, nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:33, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Support -- Tomascastelazo ([[User talk:Tomascastelazo|talk]--Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:28, 30 August 2011 (UTC)]) 19:33, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
Oppose Too much contrast --Archaeodontosaurus (talk) 05:41, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
Comment @ --Archaeodontosaurus Webster defines contrast as the “juxtaposition of dissimilar elements (as color, tone, or emotion) in a work of art.” In this case, from the photographic perspective, your opinion contrasts with the reality of the image. This image has a very wide tonal range, that is, it has pure blacks and pure whites, with lots and lots of grays in the middle, therefore, is not a contrasted image, but the opposite, it is an image with a wide tonal scale. In order to illustrate the point, I have uploaded an image that I posterized with 10 steps of a gray scale, and that means that there are 8 shades of gray between the pure blacks and the pure whites 
