Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Paraiba-Lajedo de Pai Mateus.jpg

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  • Do you mean the orange glow? Not a sunset. First there's a moonrise/-set on the left side lighting up the scene (based on the shadows). Second the orange glow itself could either be atmospheric haze, pollution lit by the Moon and/or light pollution from nearby sources. Probably a combination of all. -- KennyOMG (talk) 15:37, 26 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment This would be OK if it is a composite of 2 pictures taken at exactly the same place. I can imagine taking the rocks with an exposure, and then the sky with another exposure, and then merge them, and that would be acceptable. Regards, Yann (talk) 06:07, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I would agree, but it's a bit more than that. Looking at File:Pedra do Capacete em Cabaceiras.jpg taken on the same night at the same place by another photographer but 25 minutes later, the sky is still orange from the sunset (no light pollution), there is a moon but no stars yet. So I would guess that the nom is a merge of one photo taken at sunset with the setting sun casting shadows, and one photo taken later at night when the stars came out. The author didn't just use the land from one exposure, it includes a bit of orange sky too making it an astronomical hodgepodge. Pretty to look at, but just as inaccurate as all those photos of a big moon with clouds behind it. --Cart (talk) 08:12, 27 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Time and date are the least reliable pieces of information in the exif. It could very well be that the image itself was saved on that date. not that it was taken. Camera might not be set up properly. Regardless there are other telling signs that it's genuine. One is the presence of hotpixels on the rocks: a Nikon D800 will not put that many hotpixels on a single frame taken at any speed below seconds, yet this image is littered with them. The shadows are also too deep on the rocks, very similar to those cast by moonlight. It would also be impossible to get a flashlight effect during any kind of daylight (including sunset). As for the crescent Moon and shadows: you might be surprised to learn but even Venus can cast shadows when the conditions are right; the Moon even at it's faintest is still ~10x brighter. -- KennyOMG (talk) 00:44, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 7 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Basile Morin (talk) 04:55, 28 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]