Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Reeds over a stream in Holma - bw.jpg
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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes.Voting period ends on 22 Mar 2020 at 16:03:34 (UTC)
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Info Reeds are nice to work with in black and white since in high contrast, they come out resembling old traditional bamboo paintings. Sometimes even the light is reversible in these photos since with another light and background, the leaves become light and the background dark. I was briefly considering nominating this version, but since B&W is regarded as bad/evil by some users here, an inverted B&W photo would probably have me excommunicated from the forum. :) All by me, -- Cart (talk) 16:03, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Support -- Cart (talk) 16:03, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
Comment - Nice, but are the highlights blown? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- That is a term not usually associated with B&W photography since very white or very black areas are often a desired effect, like here. A blown area in a color photo is a part so bright that no color or detail can be detected in it, so more relevant with such. In high contrast B&W all bright and white areas become white, so technically half of the photo could be said to be "blown". Some reading. Think graphic print, without the high contrast here, this photo would be rather boring with only similar gray nuances, B&W often needs more contrast than color photos. --Cart (talk) 19:19, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Got it. So it's really a matter of taste how bright the viewer wants the highlights in each case. I do like some of the high-contrast pictures you linked and I think I voted for one or two of them. Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:31, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- And I guess my feeling is that I'd like the brightness of the whites to be toned down some, in this case. I feel like it's hindering eye movement, but I might change my mind later. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:33, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, it's a matter pf taste. Here I think toning down the white areas would make the photo lose it's crispness. Even if many of the old bamboo drawings I mentioned in the info have faded to yellow or even sepia, I like this to have a hint of freshly ground Chinese ink on rice paper. --Cart (talk) 22:52, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 09:56, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support Perhaps nothing special in color, but a pleasing abstraction, almost like a fabric print, in greyscale. Daniel Case (talk) 20:45, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support Painterly. Cmao20 (talk) 23:14, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
Oppose Nothing special and 
Overprocessed. The subject is not particularly interesting. Ordinary grass with a bit of water. Looking at the color version there's no clear potential for FP at the beginning. Then, the strong contrast of the post-treatment generates ugly dark parts with a lot of artifacts. The quality is not here. All the details were lost. Impression of blown highlights. The composition is also a bit boring, not wild enough. Reading the introduction, now I am an "evil" (even though I supported a B&W image last week), well... let's live evil :-) -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:55, 16 March 2020 (UTC)- Oppose on some similar grounds to Basile. I'd say the water doesn't look much like water in this photo. I like the reeds more than Basile does, but the stream really doesn't help me move my eyes, even in the color version, which is IMO better in this case (but still not IMO an FP). -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:38, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support --MZaplotnik(talk) 10:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support It took a while before I decided to comment on the photo. I like your other black and white choice better. But this photo also has something extra for me. I see it as a painting.--Famberhorst (talk) 16:49, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose This doesn't appeal on composition or technical quality with the bright whites. Charles (talk) 19:10, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
- Support I do rather like what you're going for here. I wonder if taking the picture a little earlier in the day might actually be worth trying, for the increased contrast from the harsh sun maybe affording room to play around with shadows without fading the edges as much? Donno. — Rhododendrites talk | 01:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- Rhod: The sun was actually very harsh when I took this. (Photo taken at the same time) This was taken smack in the middle of the Swedish summer when the sun hadly sets, so just looking at the time stamp might be confusing for a New Yorker. :) What made me try for something like this (and other photos of reeds) was the strong sunlight and here also that I had the reflection of a cloud in the stream which made the background brighter than the usual sky blue color, and it added to the contrast. I will keep experimenting with photos like this though, but I doubt they will show up here at FPC. One test is enough. --Cart (talk) 02:25, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Basile Morin. —kallerna (talk) 09:11, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Charles Poco a poco (talk) 18:37, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose per others.--Ermell (talk) 18:52, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
I withdraw my nomination --Cart (talk) 19:05, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
