Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Double Arch Arches National Park.jpg

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  •  Info created and uploaded by Flicka - nominated by --Tomascastelazo 19:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Flicka, it is indeed a beautiful picture, so I am taking the liberty to nominate it, not as a competition to the one by Lucag, but as a complement. And a tip. When I do landscape photography, I get there before the sun comes up, even when the sun strikes the subject, the contrast value light/shadow is much lower. I prefer morning to afternoon. One last comment... clone out the airplanes streak... --Tomascastelazo 19:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support As I said before this one is an amazing picture of Double Arc with a beautiful blu sky. Please don't clone out the airplanes streak. I'm not a fan of digital over manipulation as Tomas :) --LucaG 20:32, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Sorry, the chromatic aberrations on the arch are too much for FP, also not all that sharp. Dori - Talk 21:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support, i like this one better than Lucag's photo. --Aqwis 22:41, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Very poor quality at 100% - obvious haloing between the rocks and the sky resulting from heavy photoshop work. --Fir0002 www 05:37, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Oops! I just wanted to have a look at your picture again, Luca, and what do I find? To be honest, I just did another edit on the original picture yesterday evening to see if I'm able to do it better, so I'd like to upload the new version and show it here. In my opinion it's better than this one. So see you later. --Flicka 17:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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  •  Comment Okay here we are - and I like the airplane streak. It looks like pointing to my friend who's standing alone under this huge arch :-) --Flicka 17:33, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Rollopack 20:19, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose --The POV of the second version is very good (why having cropped the first ?), the original quality is poor, the post-processing is awful (look what you did to the clouds) and the hallowing remains. Sting 02:56, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose chroma noise, halos, focus. Lycaon 12:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment You're right and in my opinion also the picture is nothing for FP. As I already said before in my comment to Luca's picture, this one is just acceptable. So Tomascastelazo, would you withdraw the nomination please? And at Sting: You don't know the original picture. Maybe your opinion about the post-processing would be better if you knew ;-) The painted style of the clouds is because of the heavy noise reduction I had to do after getting the sky from nearly white to a friendly blue. --Flicka 17:14, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

 Tomascastelazo 22:04, 22 November 2007 (UTC) at the request of author --Tomascastelazo 22:04, 22 November 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Thanks. And thanks for nominating too. Though it's not good enough for FP, I'm happy to know there are other people who also like the picture. --Flicka 18:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]