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Coenonympha arcania
  • Sometimes, situation demands bigger aperture to get enough sharpness in natural light. The choice of aperture depends on many factors, including backdrops. The blurred hind wing is "alignment" problem. I agree with you on "must be parallel". (As far as I know a 150mm (300mm eqv.) on E5 is an excellent combination for macros.) Jee 03:17, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 03:00, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Manhattan skyline at night
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Result: 8 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 03:10, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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10 Upper Bank Street, London
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Motociclista en la Vereda del Lago
 Comment Thanks for your review. This image is a banner of the inability to care for the children in Venezuela. This motorcycle was going full speed in a playground, only to stop a moment and start again. After taking photos of this type always ask their permission to parents, however, this is only informally. --The Photographer (talk) 23:04, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@The Photographer: Ah, OK. It was not clear to me, when I saw the photo first what the message was. Nor had I realised it was at a playground. But I understand now better what the purpose of the photo is. Perhaps its categorization should also reflect this inability to take care of children, such that re-users who look for such kinds of media files can find them by browsing thorugh the main category structure? Out of curiosity: Is it allowed in Venezuela to drive on a motorcycle without wearing a full helmet? --Slaunger (talk) 11:29, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Slaunger: Excellent review. I just created a new category Child neglect. In Venezuela anything is possible and everything is allowed simultaneously. It is a country without laws. Take a picture at enormous risk and danger to life. Those things should also be taken into commons. This is not a personal perception --The Photographer (talk) 14:59, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@The Photographer: Yes, I am aware of the crime level in Venezuela. And do not get me wrong, when I oppose this image as FP. I appreciate you bring such subjects in as the material is valuable. We need that much more than pretty 'hoverfly on flower' pics on Commons. --Slaunger (talk) 16:27, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Slaunger: I very much appreciate the helpful comments on cons. I'm not a collector FP, I'm a beginner photographer with a thirst to improve, wanting to be criticized because it helps me improve. I understand that many comments against are subjective, I also understand that most of the FP are beautiful and heavenly images. However, in some areas there is not much artistic ability to photograph beautiful buildings, flowers and rivers. The tragic, the violent and neglected despite showing no great wow factor, are those things that make us think as a society to look at us within ourselves and improve our sins. Thus, voting against help me improve my level and I value it more and also prefer this type of photographs sometimes tragic. thanks --The Photographer (talk) 19:42, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose Very low wow for me, sorry. Centered composition makes it even less fascinating. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 05:42, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Autum-Sunrise at the Lilienstein, Saxon Switzerland
 Comment Done, --Merops (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Done, --Merops (talk) 15:15, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 12 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /A.Savin 20:10, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Sweet scabious flower.
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Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain.
  • Well, if you look around on the FPC nomination page it will hardly surprise you, that I have a sweet spot for symmetric buildings in Madrid in February 2014 . I am just perhaps not as good at it as you. Clin --Slaunger (talk) 19:33, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Slaunger: Haha I see. It seems Commons users are coming to Madrid this year, that's nice! The España building is hard to take good pictures. If you look at the category, I think no one is really outstanding (and I have 17 there), yours is one of the best imo. I have remembered I took one at 13mm, but weather was bad: just uploaded. I'll be back one sunny day. --Kadellar (talk) 16:07, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Kadellar: Well, Madrid is a nice city with nice people! It is quite a good one you have uploaded (disregarding the dull light). I agree: You should go back and do it in good weather. Personally, I regret I did not take four photos for a panorama, while I was there. It would have given better DOF and detail level - and made alignment easier. The Edificio España certainly deserves an FP. -- Slaunger (talk) 19:33, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Sony α77 II camera
  •  Info Low-key lit photograph of the Sony α77 II camera with DT 16-50mm F2.8 SSM kit lens. We have many "isolated on white" images of products and although they have undoubted utility, the result can be about as visually interesting as an eBay listing. I've gone for a different approach here with low-key lighting (softbox above, white reflector in front, black background). The result is a deliberately artistic effect rather than documenting every detail, though it captures (and indeed emphasises) aspects of the subject in a form that remains educationally useful. Hope you like it. Created, uploaded, nominated by Colin -- Colin (talk) 18:59, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Colin (talk) 18:59, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Sorry but it's too dark. I can't see the bottom part of the camera and the rear is not very sharp --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 20:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Please check your monitor is calibrated and your viewing conditions optimal. For example, the texture of the camera is visible to the bottom and the focus-control knob at the base is a very dark shade of grey. But I think you may be missing the point... -- Colin (talk) 22:24, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I also think that it is bit dark. Regards, Yann (talk) 06:45, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. I'll adjust it tonight. -- Colin (talk) 06:48, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I like the black background, the composition and I also appreciate how the lightning manages to capture the texture of the surface of the camera quite delicately on the upper side of the lens and around the controls on top of the house. However, I agree with Moroder and Yann that it could use a little light from yet another lightsource to lighten up the lower part a bit. --Slaunger (talk) 12:13, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Moroder, Yann, Slaunger: I've uploaded a new version with increased exposure and shadows. I'm reluctant to increase any further as the camera is black, not grey. The lighting style is supposed to have a considerable lighting ratio with typically one key light plus reflector, and sometimes even a substantial part of the subject in darkness (especially a black subject). The intention is not to simply produce this picture but with a black background. Btw, resources for diy monitor calibration can be found here and here. For examples of similar low-key images, see this Nikon advert, this, this, this Sony advert, this Sony leaflet and the latest Nikon 810. -- Colin (talk) 19:50, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose—Good quality but I'm having a very hard time discerning which parts of the picture are camera and which parts are background.Love, Kelvinsong talk 21:49, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I usually don't challenge people's opposes, but in this case I am trying to understand why seeing all the camera is important when the intent of the image is to incite a mood in the viewer not provide a stock photo. Saffron Blaze (talk) 04:31, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Kelvinsong, if too much of the camera is black then either your monitor is not calibrated correctly or is poor quality (see links provided above). However, it is very much the intention that the camera should fade to black. So your oppose, frankly (sorry), seems to indicate you don't understand this very standard lighting technique. See Category:Low-key lighting (NSFW) for examples. -- Colin (talk) 05:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
finee  Support—though the picture you showed me you can still clearly see the camera edge.—Love, Kelvinsong talk 14:47, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
See comment to Kelvinsong. -- Colin (talk) 05:47, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I like it. It looks professional and cool this way, and very eyecatching. I do not mind that much that not all details are shown, or dissapear into the black background. If people get interested they will soon find also the more usual pics, where all the encyclopedic details are shows. The other versions from the same setup are also helpful here. And: Congratz with the new camera!!(?) --Slaunger (talk) 05:33, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - I feel the parts that are critical are visible. Nikhil (talk) 05:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral Now it looks perfect but sincerely imo it is not FP --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 06:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral per above, because : 1. I think product photography needs longer focal length ; 2. There's too much light IMO for the intended result. Maybe it should have come more from behind. That said it's a very nice attempt, and the result is still quite good (hence neutral ;-)). - Benh (talk) 07:07, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Looks well done -- Christian Ferrer Talk 18:49, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --King of 00:56, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --· Favalli00:26, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral Good quality, and nice as a promo shot, but for the educational value, I'd rather like more light. Regards, Yann (talk) 08:32, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yann, this prejudice that our finest educational images must be fully lit with a blank white canvas is flawed and harmful to the project. To begin with, all notable features of this camera are clearly visible (such that they can be seen from this angle) so more light would not actually make the image more educationally useful. The three-dimensional form of this camera is actually more apparent in the nomination than a conventional Commons photograph. But even assuming some aspects of the camera were hidden by this lighting, does that make this form of lighting unsuitable or suboptimal for Commons? A project who's educational mission extends far beyond providing a thumbnail for a Wikipedia article. Leaf through a professional modern educational publication or website and you will not find endless brightly-lit-on-white product shots. For professional photo editors know that the reader deserves interesting pictures that engage the eye. If "fully lit" were a justification on Commons FP, then we wouldn't accept the countless nighttime shots of city scapes. We wouldn't celebrate silhouette (File:The Photographer.jpg or File:SMP May 2008-9a.jpg). Nor sunbeams (File:Chicago Union Station 1943.jpg or File:Locomotives-Roundhouse2.jpg). And don't get me started on those who reject black-and-white as a medium, for if that was valid we'd miss out on File:Bicycle reflections.jpg and the wonderful File:Falling rain in mexico.jpg. At times, Commons FP has a very small mindset regarding what is excellent educational imagery. Look to see what the professionals use in their publications, not what amateurs have already produced on Wikipedia. -- Colin (talk) 11:12, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Colin: I think you take my comments too personally. As I said, your picture is good, and would certainly be appreciated by marketing people. But it doesn't change anything in my view. Try it as FP on the English Wikipedia if you think I am wrong. Regards, Yann (talk) 12:19, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • Commons is not Wikipedia. But even so, I see no reason why it should fail on en:wp other than for the same misconceptions over what is educational. The reason I raise the issue isn't for my one picture, which I don't care if it passes or not, but to reject the principle you and others have claimed. That somehow a boring stock photo (which is photographed on white traditionally because that makes it easy extract with Photoshop and paste onto other backgrounds), is the only valid lighting for Commons objects. -- Colin (talk) 13:06, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose sorry, but a black item on a black background is a no go for me. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 12:55, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --MichaelMaggs (talk) 18:25, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 3 neutral → featured. /Jee 03:19, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Exakta Varex with bellows and slide copier
  •  Info Exakta Varex with bellows and slide copier, one of the very early 135mm SLR cameras. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- P e z i (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- P e z i (talk) 18:53, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The image is extremely soft. Even at 50% reduction (6MP) it isn't sharp. The culprit seems to be the aperture of f/22 for a superzoom lens on a crop-sensor camera. Compare the resolution charts for the 18-200 with a cheap 50mm prime. The prime is not only much sharper at its best aperture but also holds up much better to being stopped down for increased DoF. Wrt exposure/lighting, too much of the lens barrel is blown out (though I accept lighting shiny curved metal is hard). -- Colin (talk) 11:57, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination Thanks for your review. You are right - this lens was not the best choice here. I'll try it again later with my 50mm f/1.8. --P e z i (talk) 13:00, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
P e z i, see Benh's comments on my own FP nom wrt focal length. I don't personally think the subject looks bad with a 50mm crop lens (75mm full-frame equivalent) but Ben's right that product photography tends to use a slightly longer length (90mm or 100mm on full-frame seems to be common, which would require a 60mm crop lens). I don't know how important that small difference is, though, and suspect the availability of sharp 90/100mm macro or TS lenses is more of an influence on what gets used by pros than the difference between 75 and 90mm. Whether the wide-angle vs compressed-perspective effects are problematic also likely depends on the subject and how you orient it. -- Colin (talk) 13:57, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to add that I think you shouldn't stop down this much. I don't think any lens performs well at f/22. I understand you try to maximize DOF, but try to open at sweet spot for your lens, and stack focusing instead. And yes 50mm should give better result than 35mm for product photography because often in such case, you want to minimize perspective converging lines, which means getting farther from your subject, and using longer focal length will force you to do so. If you prefer converging lines, you needn't stuck to rules, forget what we say... - Benh (talk) 15:17, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Benh, P e z i, I agree wrt f/22, but one can still go a bit past the sweet spot and have a very sharp image with a prime. On my 50mm prime, it is still very sharp at f/13. It's probably sharper at f/22 than the superzoom at any stop. The charts show f/8 is sharpest but if the consequence is lower DoF and a need to stack, I'm not convinced it is always worth it. I wouldn't go to f/22. However focus stacking large objects like this is a bit of a perfection fetish imo and introduces a significant risk of stacking artefacts. If one is feeling flush, a Canon 90mm TS lens is an option for maximum DoF! See also this blog post about diffraction. -- Colin (talk) 15:52, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Colin: I couldn't agree more. I'd suggest to try again with the 50mm, starting out with a series of test shots at different apertures to see at which point diffraction starts to become an issue with that lens. --El Grafo (talk) 16:32, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Thanks a lot for all your hints! Think I'll try out a series of different f-stops and also different lenses; the 50mm f/1.8 already mentioned and also the AF-S NIKKOR 85 mm 1:1,8G portrait lens will be given a chance. --P e z i (talk) 17:26, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) at Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds, Marin County, California.
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Result: 12 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Jee 05:23, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 19 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 15:41, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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HMS Sabre (P285)
What is the CA? Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 13:52, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry: Sorry for not being clear. It means Chromatic aberration visible as color fringes (small rainbows) on sharp transitions between, e.g., white and black. --Slaunger (talk) 14:24, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Reassembly of the Tivoli Bridge, Sète, France.
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Result: 1 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 15:42, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Diagram of the planet Neptune
Well I was trying to separate the magnetic & rotational information from the physical features… either way I made it all white—better?—Love, Kelvinsong talk 16:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed—Love, Kelvinsong talk 14:06, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
thx! --El Grafo (talk) 15:41, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Saffron Blaze: Kden. 😒 I wasn't even planning on drawing Uranus & Neptune when I made Jupiter, but given the reception on that one I decided to do the ice giants as well. So I guess the lesson here is to quit while you're ahead. & I'm not going to be doing any more planet cutaways anymore anyway. && Btw the real irony here is you're saying I should have made a set nomination when set nominations are currently suspended.—Love, Kelvinsong talk 18:50, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That was my point :-) Saffron Blaze (talk) 22:23, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'm sorry like what was your point?? That I should stop making space pictures?—Love, Kelvinsong talk 23:33, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That I should be recommending a set when we just placed a moratorium on such noms. Saffron Blaze (talk) 01:07, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Saffron Blaze: Ok I get what you mean but please don't call my pictures something that you are "getting bored of now". It takes a lot of effort to make them and I put a lot of polish on them & I go out of my way to make them efficient and easy to navigate & edit && the least you could do is offer {{Support}} or at least an {{Oppose}} for a better reason than "you already did the other three planets & this one is nothing special".
PS I nominated my cell organelle diagrams as a set but people were opposing just because they didn't like set nominations, so hb no—Love, Kelvinsong talk 01:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd probably get bored of pizza if I had to eat it everyday. Regardless, I am not dismissing the effort or the result, but they are repetitive and intensely related. At least as a set we could have conferred a standard across them. I get the dilemma of Commons though... you will always find people that will damn you if you do and damn you if you don't. Saffron Blaze (talk) 02:15, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you. But I don't really get your logic—if Jupiter hadn't gotten the support it did, Saturn would never have been made, & so forth. && Since it looks like Neptune & Uranus aren't going to pass ( :/ ) I don't see how offering them as a set would make any difference. A major argument against sets was that they were letting in images that wouldn't have gotten FP on their own, so in an ideal set system, nominating all four giant planets as a set should cause all four to fail FP. && Some of the arguments for abolishing sets were voter fatigue from having to review several of the same image, but it looks like that's happening anyway.—Love, Kelvinsong talk 02:50, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • You seem to be looking at this as a creator not a reviewer. Call it subject fatigue. If the four gas giants had been presented as a coherent standardised set they would have passed easily. Think of it like this. Someone offers you a small box of fine truffles sprinkled in dark coco. Wonderful and you walk away happy to eat them at your leisure! Now in another scenario, they offer you one. You eat it. Then they offer you another, you eat it. By the time the third one comes around it is getting a bit rich and your are satisfied, so you decline the offer. Saffron Blaze (talk) 03:29, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Tbh I would still eat them all 😋. But anyway each week FPC sees no less than two city skylines, four rustic European town panoramas, five orthogonal stone buildings, three overprocessed landscapes, one marble statue in front of the standard azure sky, two OMG-3-POINT-PERSPECTIVE glass skyscrapers, two church interiors (always from the same angle!!??), half a random sattelite image, two engravings, one small bird (with a great deal of bokeh), and three early-dawn wildflower photos. But nobody is telling the orthogonal building photographers to save all their building photos and nominate them all together as a set (and presumably then never contribute another building pic since "they shoulda nominated it in the set" (nvm it didn't even exist back then). Seriously do you think I draw all the planet diagrams I'll ever make all at once and then spread out the nominations over several months just to tire you guys out? Omg on the next backlit wildflower I see I am so literally going to comment "nice flower but you should really have nominated all your flower pictures as a set!".—Love, Kelvinsong talk 04:37, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • LOL. Featured comment of this week. :) (BTW, we need more inputs for the new set noms. See talk.) Jee 17:28, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Kelvin, the problem you have is you think I should care about how much time it takes you or how many you are willing to do. I seriously don't, nor should I. The fact you can't see the difference that "the planets" or "the gas giants" make for a logical set whereas every fucking building on the planet doesn't is your problem. This aside, my original comment was people will get bored of these as they have with other subject matter. If you want to run into that wall instead of availing yourself of a set nomination fill yer boots. Saffron Blaze (talk) 20:34, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
lol thanks!!—Love, Kelvinsong talk 13:08, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 9 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 03:13, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Spitfire Fighter Engine Testing
  •  Oppose per the first part of the comment of Ubersprutzer. I agree with the two first sentences of Saffron Blaze, but I strongly disagree with the third. 'Commons' is not an art gallery.--Jebulon (talk) 11:38, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I've had a long discussion with myself about this. I'll spare you the details, but it turns out I'm unable to come to a "reasonable" conclusion. So I switched off my brain and made this a gut decision: it's an awesome picture after all. --El Grafo (talk) 20:30, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 6 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 03:07, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hong Kong City, view from Kowloon
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Result: 5 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 16:55, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 1 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /Jee 16:56, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 3 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /A.Savin 21:10, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /FPCBot (talk) 05:02, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Royal Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Antequera, Andalusia, Spain with view of Antequera town on the right.
Nomination denied. Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines because only two active nominations per user are allowed. --Jebulon (talk) 19:29, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Corocoro frito con Arepas
 Comment The viewing angle was precisely from above (see original picture in the description). I not altered this dish to create a dish that looks beautiful, with this photograph I conducted respecting best tradition who made this dish, my mom. You speak of many flaws, however, all that your dating is a knife with a wrong angle and a bad cut fish. The angle is exactly as seen from above and the fish was cut because this is traditionally done the preparation, I can not change that.--Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 20:27, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I don't really understand the arrangement of Caribbean food on a gaudy Chinese plate cut out "on white" with cutlery floating on the left. I see it is taken from an original with a distracting place mat. I would like to see more food photography on Commons FP but the presentation is everything. -- Colin (⧼Talkagelinktext⧽) 21:15, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 I withdraw my nomination @Colin: You are right. Thanks --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 00:20, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Olá Wilfredo. Eu também penso que o arquivo RAW ajudaria, pois o ruído na imagem não está gravíssimo. O foco e a nitidez, eu penso, são facilmente solucionáveis (para alguém que saiba solucionar). Infelizmente, eu não possuo o arquivo RAW, porém eu penso que alguém por aqui tem. Saudações :) ArionEstar (talk) 22:49, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@ArionEstar: Oi Arion, obrigado por sua rapida resposta. Não acredito sim existe alguma forma de contactar com Carlos, e muito importante fazer isso agora enquanto esta candidatura está activa. Um abraço de São Paulo --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 00:51, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Dawn on the village of Liausson.
  •  Info All by me. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:28, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Yes, yes I know, the village is in shadow (I'm face to the sun), the image is also maybe a little bit noisy, maybe also a bit oversatured... But it's more an image for the mood rather than for the village itself. The image is not so bad and I like this mood, and in more I had pain at my legs to climb the hill quickly to arrive in time for this mood. :) -- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:28, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I really like this kind of picture, with side light, and nice mood... but this picture misses a subject or a pattern to keep my attention on it, and earn my support. But I wanted to comment on it, and say that I think there's not much missing for it to become FP material. If the legs are still in shape, why not going when the light comes from the other side ;) ? Wouldn't it lit the village or is some hill casting shadow at that time?- Benh (talk) 19:04, 2 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination Ok, thanks very much for the comment. No matter my legs, at the end it is a pleasure. And as soon as my job and the weather will be favorable at the same time, I will return there during the latest hours of the sun to see what it can give. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:09, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment Nice comments over and over again.--Famberhorst (talk) 15:47, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Tetrameles nudiflora emerging over the ruins of the Khmer temple of Ta Phrom, Angkor temple complex, located today in Cambodia. The temple Ta Phrom, of Bayon-style, was erected in the 12th century as a Buddhist monastery and university.

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Otto-Wagner-pavilion in Vienna, Austria
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New Kensington, Pennsylvania
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SMS Baden
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Venezuelan_troupial on the island of Bonaire, 50 mi (80 km) northwest of Venezuela in the Dutch Caribbean.
Ok, thank you. AtsmeConsult 03:25, 27 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe inner camera software filter added a litle oversharpening, I think so. --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 15:11, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'm not sure about the differences .png and .jpg. My oppose is with regards to the sharpening halos. --Graphium 15:57, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It's backlight transparency caused by fringed ends of the white and yellow feathers. Look at the white fringing around the wing feathers against the bird's body, and the tail feathers contrasting with the darker silhouette of the bird. It is most noticeable on the white edge of the tail feathers. The image wasn't sharpened - it was shot RAW, and tweaked for contrast and color only. Sharpening would make it grainy, not create a halo. The images referenced above don't show any white around the tail feathers - could be the birds aren't marked exactly the same. The lighting was certainly different. This bird had quite a bit of white fringe around its feathers, even through its neck. I guess if the reviewers don't like trupials with white fringed feathers, the image won't be selected. Not much more I can add. AtsmeConsult 21:19, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna, Austria


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Kievitsbloem (Fritillaria meleagris)

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PARAWCS 2014 - Parachute World Cup Series (Bled Cup 2014)
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Carlos Perez Couto - nominated by Arion -- ArionEstar (talk) 16:55, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Layout of CBS
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St. Paul's Cathedral (Münster) at blue hour
  • @XRay: Thanks for the information. To clarify my oppose, it is not the color balance I am having an issue with. It is the color saturation, which I find excessive. Sure you have not given it a big nudge up on the color saturation knob? --Slaunger (talk) 10:03, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Pretty typical of what night architecture photos look like. --King of 05:38, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support ok for me: a typical local night view. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 06:38, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The saturation might not be increased but this long exposure has resulted in an image different to what the eye sees. That's not necessary a bad thing, but I don't much like the orange/blue mix. The left tower has what I can only describe as smudged bits all over it. I have no idea how they occur but it isn't appealing. The right hand side is hidden by a tree (take chainsaw next time you visit :-). I appreciate the effort involved, but I don't think the result is FP. -- Colin (talk) 21:56, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Colin: IMO the colours are OK. Just for your information: It's the special light that looks orange. The left tower shows the shadows of some of the trees of the square. (There are a lot of trees on the square.)--XRay talk 06:46, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate that you have no control over the orange colour or the consistency of lights or trees. But a great picture is a combination of what's there and what the photographer has done with it. -- Colin (talk) 08:06, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Spiderhead windmill in Dutch Nationall park "De Weerribben"
Remove my oppose, not so bad image -- Christian Ferrer Talk 10:45, 30 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Sunset at the beach of St. Peter-Ording after a stormy day
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A double decker bus at angamaly KSRTC Bus Stand
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Large Psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus) in the Community of Madrid, Spain.
  • I found the wow here was that it did not run away so quickly and I could get very close to the animal (half a second later it wasn't there). Thanks for your comment anyway. --Kadellar (talk) 10:50, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Šar Mountains seen from the Vodno Mountain
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Sarajevo assassination
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Clock tower clock in night, veegaland amusement park, Cochin, Kerala, India
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Campus of the Vienna University of Economics and Business, building EA (Executive Academy), planned by NO.MAD Arquitectos (Madrid), Welthandelsplatz 1, 2nd district of Vienna
  • ✓ Done Thanks for rreview. I didn't use any filter, but you are right, it looks quite strange in this corner. Tried to improve and uploaded a new version. --P e z i (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The architecture is very interesting and eye-catching. I am having a little problem though with the arbitrarily placed tress in the foreground partially obstructing the view and the white-and red mast. I get the impression from looking at the Campus WU category, that there are other and better vantage points for taking more unobstructed picture of this interesting building with less distracting elements. --Slaunger (talk) 19:42, 3 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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 Comment There are chromatic aberration filter fix in Lightroom and Darktable (if you like free software) and you cant repare almost any CA in image only with a click, work better with RAW file --The Photographer (talk) 13:30, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination -- OK guys, I got the message (please let me know when I may come back). Alvesgaspar (talk) 11:28, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is to certify that
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--Kreuzschnabel (talk) 13:04, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
We all had or still have to learn that others don’t always have the same opinion about our work than we have ourselves :-)

Thanks for your permission, Kreuzschnabel :). But I don't think you understood my point correctly. Not only have I always been humble about the merits of my own work but also have respected equally the reviews of both newbies and vets. That is easy to check on many of my nominations from 2006 on. The most valuable thing we can get from FPC is the feedback from our peers, not the stars. Alvesgaspar (talk) 13:29, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I also never understand those withdrawals just few hours before the regular voting deadline. Ignorable POINTy timewasting, I would say. --A.Savin 19:29, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Wooden path over a pond to reach the Khmer temple of Neak Pean, an artificial island that belongs to the Angkor temple complex, located today in Cambodia. The Buddhist temple Neak Pean, part of the temple Preah Khan was erected by order of Jayavarman VII in the 12th century.

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A Full Pumkin cut from the plant.
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Hintere and Vordere Platteinspitze, mountains in Lechtal Alps in Austria.
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Beach feeling in Bavaria
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The Serbian Orthodox Church Monastery of Ostrog is placed against an almost vertical background, high up in the large rock of Ostroška Greda, in Montenegro. The monastery, dedicated to Saint Basil of Ostrog, was founded by Vasilije, the Metropolitan Bishop of Herzegovina in the 17th century. He died there in 1671 and some years later he was glorified. The present-day look was given to the Monastery in 1923-1926, after a fire which had destroyed the major part of the complex. Fortunately, the two little cave-churches were spared and they are the key areas of the monument.
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"Iris Prysen, long jump, Athletics Paralympic Meeting, June 4th, 2014, Charlety stadium"
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  •  Info Starry sky near Brandenburg an der Havel (Germany), close to midnight. The picture shows ~280° of the sky.Selimabner was so kind to add some constelations, stars and planets as annotations which I linked to the german and english article. The orange light in the middle of the image is the visible light polution from Brandenburg which is ~7km away. The bluish light on the left side is the rest light from the sunset. Regards mathias K 18:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- mathias K 18:35, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I haven't seen a lot of starry skies over here. It definitely has wow factor. I would have loved to know which setting you used to properly review, so I'm wondering if you couldn't have shortened exposition. ISO bumping perhaps? (I'm aware you probably went very high already). Contrary to many pictures on the web, you didn't seem to downscale a lot (if at all), but there might be some little more room for improving noise issue with careful NR. I think stars are good subjects for non too destructive NR. I'll end with composition, which I don't find very sophisticated, but this is just my opinion of course. - Benh (talk) 19:00, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi Benh, thank you. The single pictures were taken at ISO3200 with f3.5 and 30sec exposure. So yes, there is allready ISO bumping and not much room for shorten the exposition. The high ISO and the open aperture are necessary to catch as much stars as possible at an "acceptable" exposure time. And, I think I have to disappoint you about the downsampling thing. ;-) Cause of the choosen settings I had to downsample a lot to get the actual quality. But with the now given resolution I have made a 120x40cm print were I´m pretty happy with the result, so I think it is a good compromise between size and quality. Regards mathias K 19:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Kreuzschnabel: Thanks for the review. As Benh says in another nom: "...reviewers have sharp eyes." ;-) But yes, you're right, there are some double patterns in this area. I don't think it spoils the image that much, but I will try to fix this problem as soon as possible! Thanks again, --mathias K 03:47, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Vendedor de Plátano frito, cotufas y maní
It is a square there is no vehicles in the vicinity of the Basilica of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá --Wilfredo R. Rodríguez H. (talk) 23:13, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I mean this table, whatever, he puts his stuff on. Gidip (talk) 09:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Pen-y-ghent
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: as per above comments. Yann (talk) 03:35, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.

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  •  Info 1,608 × 2,001 pixels, file size: 322 KB, unknown source, low-quality (Original nomination)
Result: 7 delist and replace, 0 keep, 0 neutral => delisted and replaced. 
Category = Commons:Featured pictures/Non-photographic media Jee 16:52, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Walking the water buffalo
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Sunken Church of St. Nicholas in Lake Mavrovo
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Eucera cinnamomea, male
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Big Sur Shoreline
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  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Benh (talk) 21:53, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral Little attempt while I'm still wandering around... I'm aware it's heavily processed, but I really wanted to enhance the dramatic mood. I also know my venerable 10-22 lens is soft on the corners, and that the three exposures don't overlap very nicely on moving objects (leafs, people). -- Benh (talk) 21:53, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Perspective can be corrected without losing too much of the dramatic effect:

    --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 05:39, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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  •  Support I like it but I do prefer the original. Shot from a low angle with a u.w. lens I like to see some perspective distortion. Over correcting, like the second picture, looks unnatural to me. --Uberprutser (talk) 10:58, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose As always, it is a pleasure to see your photography, which has the wow, but the technical flaws you point out yourself plus a quite noisy sky is too much of an issue for me. I would also appreciate a more faithful representation wrt processing (but I respect that you prefer it heavily processed). For me more a photo targeted at a 500px audience. --Slaunger (talk) 15:58, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Please don't correct the verticals, it really spoils it... my composition is on purpose : worm's view is dramatic, and the perspective lines lead your eye to the dramatic sky which enhances the effect even more. I was just trying to check how audience would react, as I'm on a "processing pictures" momentum. I'd like to point out that although it's heavily processed, the original picture already looked like that. HDR only help to brighten up the church (and again, I try to keep a natural look). I'll upload a pic for comparison if I think about it tonight (and I still have to fix the pont du gard picture as I promised). This is a recurring issue, but the noise (which is very small, but can be fixed) and overlapping issues won't be visible until scrutinized at 100%. Even large print would look nice. Similar FP candidates which were promoted before were all downsampled to 2mpix. - Benh (talk) 10:17, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Are you going for something that might grace the cover of a gothic novel? If so, it isn't nearly dramatic enough. Possibly a strong crop on just the church would help. The trees, wall, path and colour all have a taming effect. The sky isn't particularly foreboding. I agree completely with Benh on the vertical "correction". This isn't an architectural shot and one simply can't correct verticals on a picture taken this close without introducing a ridiculous stretching effect. In terms of sharpness/megapixels, I have recently discovered the wiki software lets you create links to images at any size. So one could suggest that the image be "reviewed for sharpness" at a given size, while still uploading/nominating a larger image if desired. For example, it looks sharp at 50% reduction (2.5MP). At 66% reduction (4.4MP) it looks ok. While those sizes would be underwhelming for an architectural nomination, they might be sufficient for an image with enough wow. -- Colin (talk) 12:05, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Agree with everything. Review size should be something automated, but this was discussed a lot already. You may be right for the framing affecting the effect. I've played a little with recroping and the results are interesting. Will think about it (but the picture doesn't seem to attract much interest anyways, so will be for myself :) ). - Benh (talk) 21:13, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment To show how much the HDR processing differs from the single exposure shot : File:Chapelle Notre-Dame aux Raisins BLS single exposure.jpg. It's already quite underexposed on purpose. - Benh (talk) 21:13, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment After to have see the single exposure shot, I think the HDR kill the dramatic effect in part because it's maybe a bit overdone -- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:45, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment One support other than from the nominator. But not seeing any chance to get featured. Close? Jee 09:03, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Times Square time lapse
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Dornier C-146A Wolfhound (version of Do-328), registration 10-3077. Operating for 524th Special Operations Squadron with 27th Special Operations Wing of United States Air Force.
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Pic de Vissou, Cabrières, Hérault, France.
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Canal St-Martin, Paris.

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Photo, painting of Mary, Queen of Scots

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  •  Comment I uploaded Hilliards's miniature of Queen Elizabeth I to Commons myself earlier this year. There seems to me to be a couple of issues here: 1 this is a Coetzee bequest image. I'm not sure it's best diplomatic we nominate these images as "Featured" right now 2 are we really going to list every high resolution image of a work of art as "Featured"? They must now run into their tens of thousands if we take account of Google Art Project and galleries such as NGA Washington, Rijksmuseum, and the Prado, to name but just three that come to mind that make available high resolution images, and then both the major auctioneers and others, as well as a host of smaller institutions who take no special steps against stitching their high resolution tiles. I'm inclined to think we should up the bar for art works to "ultra high resolution", such as this one, a van Gogh Sunflowers I recently nominated at Wikipedia Featured Pictures. One interesting thing about Google Art Project images is that fine as they are, they rarely approach the best available from their source museums. This is so for the van Gogh I nominated. That one comes from the Van Gogh Museum as you can readily check by going to the appropriate museum page. It's much superior to the Google Art project version. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 23:45, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Head Mask of Elephant used in Kerala.
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Presqu'île du Rouens, Clermont-l'Hérault, France.
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The Main Hall of the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom
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Monday James
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Ponte della Maddalena, also called Ponte del Diavolo, Borgo a Mozzano, Tuscany, Italy.
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An example of some of the beacons that marked key sites in territory at the Cape claimed by the Dutch. Both are made of Robben Island slate and bear the coat-of-arms of the Netherlands (a lion with seven arrows representing the seven Dutch provinces). This beacon was found on the farm Ongegundefontein on the southern side of Olifants River mouth, near present-day Papendorp, and was donated to the South African Museum in 1893.
 Question Savin, what about this image would have made this image featurable and of quality?
  •  Oppose Interesting subject... but uneven lighting and unsharp. --Cayambe (talk) 16:54, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment The lighting is a one source light from above, thus the uneven nature of its look. Quality? Its 20mp image. Which part of the image lacks sharpness? In the museum with their limited light sources and the beacon secured in a glass cage, this happens to be the closest to best I could achieve with my camera.
      • The lighting would not really be a problem for me. Uneven lighting in this case enhances the readability. The image *is* unsharp, however. View the image at full resolution to see. Kleuske (talk) 08:48, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Copyleft portrait of german XX Century philosofer Hans-Georg Hadamer, developer of philosophical hermeneutics, who argued that a artwork's meaning is not reducible to the author's intentions, but is dependent on the context of interpretation.
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Engraving based on Trumbull's Declaration of Independence
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Sarah Vaughan
I would support editing it out providing it's a documented separate file linked to the original. I'm not sure it can be within the guidelines. And besides maybe she was really being 'lifted'... It is pretty intrusive I have to admit. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 08:07, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It's something I'd like to remove, but which would be misleading to. Adam Cuerden (talk) 06:04, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Upright piano made in the United States
  •  Info created by Steinway & Sons - uploaded by Fanoftheworld and McZusatz - nominated by Nobelpeopleuploader -- Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Great picture of a piano made in the United States. After having voted for Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Sukhoi SuperJet 100 (5114478300).jpg I would like to nominate this picture. --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:55, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info A quite similar image is already featured, but it is a .png and not exactly the same model: File:Steinway & Sons upright piano, model K-132, manufactured at Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany.png. --Myrabella (talk) 22:09, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose We can't really have two FPs that differ only in the file format. I assume PNG was the original and someone created a JPG. From the previous FP it appears the original had a colour profile embedded in it that was for printing on coated paper, and someone just removed the profile to make the file smaller. This JPG has no colourspace metadata or profile so the colours are arbitrary. I know it is not a particularly colourful image, but colours are important. It is also rather low resolution (3MP) for a product shot (which these days, would probably have been taken with a 50MP medium-format camera). So too many problems to be "finest". -- Colin (talk) 11:00, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Info No, model 1098 and model K-132 are two different pianos. We can easily have two feautured pictures of two different pianos like we already have two feautured pictures of two different Mercedes sports cars: File:DTM Mercedes W204 Lauda09 amk.jpg and File:DTM Mercedes W204 DiResta09 amk.jpg. Regarding the file format: Some people prefer PNG other prefer JPG. But both file formats are suitable for featured pictures, see also the complete guideline for featured pictures. Regarding the resolution: The resolution (3MP) is not low and it is suitable for featured pictures, according to the complete guideline for featured pictures it should be "at least 2MP". I hope you please would reconsider your vote. Thanks. --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 16:20, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • You are right, they are different. Still, I don't personally see much merit in featuring a remarkably similar image. My other comments stand, and I'm quite familiar with the guidelines, which are just that: guidelines. The 2MP guideline is a very low bar and 3MP is quite unacceptable for a product shot. Nobelpeopleuploader, I suggest you consider what "Finest" means in terms of contemporary photography, rather than arguing about rules. Actually, I'm surprised the PNG was accepted as FP as it is not a optimal choice for photographic images. -- Colin (talk) 17:27, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        • To Colin: I'm not arguing about rules, I'm just trying to make something clear. And my way of judging featured picture candidates is always based on the guideline for featured pictures and my own opinion. If my opinion on some points is completely against the guideline I respect the guideline made by the Wikimedia community. I'm not going to raise my very own opinion above the guideline. If every person who vote does that, then the guideline is nothing worth and the voting process is like the Wild West. If you perceived my previous info/comment as an insult I apologize - that was definitely not my intention. --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 19:49, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
          • No insult taken. Just you seem to be arguing I should support because it passes the guideline (e.g, 2MP) or that I can't oppose on some issue the guideline has a lower threshold on. The guideline is just the base of what we all agree should apply (with very few exceptions) to all images. But beyond that everyone is free to set their own standards and they should be higher than that! I might consider a difficult bird-in-flight photograph to be fine at 2MP but a studio or landscape photograph is unlikely to impress anyone with that little detail. Compare my own product shots (iron, camera) with far more detail and only an entry-level DSLR rather than pro kit. This piano image lacks any detail in the wood and is actually quite noisy. The award of FP is based on consensus rather than following rules. It is a bit random at times. The overall judgement is whether this is among our finest images. I don't think a rather plain product photograph at 3MP is anywhere close to the expected standard. -- Colin (talk) 20:35, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
            • I see we two have a difference of opinion on how the guideline should be understood and how the voting process should be performed. I don't think we can come to some sort of an agreement on that. Så let us leave it for now. --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 20:57, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
            • By the way: Regarding your opinion "This piano image lacks any detail in the wood..." - that is because the actual piano does NOT have any detail in the wood. The lacquer is very thick - between 1,0 and 1,5 millimetres. The finish of the piano is called "satin" because of the details in the lacquer, which can be seen in the photo. (Here you have a picture of a much cheaper piano with a thin layer of lacquer resulting in visible details in the wood: www.steinway.com/pianos/boston/upright/up-118s-pe). --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 21:11, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
              • Well I don't think my interpretation of the guideline is out-of-sync with consensus, whereas... well nobody else is supporting this. That other photo looks like the sort of "black ash" wood effect that was popular for cheap hifi in the 80s. Perhaps this isn't real wood finish either (the website seems to indicate that paying for a veneer is an option for discerning customers.) -- Colin (talk) 21:53, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
                • You are right that nobody else is supporting this picture. That is of course because of the long discussion and not because of the picture. Candidates with long discussions usually don't get supported. There is too much to read before people can make a vote so it's easier just to jump to some other images. I still don't understand why you think "This piano image lacks any detail in the wood..." when the actual piano doesn't have the details you want in the wood? --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 22:26, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
                  • There are plenty FPs (some my own) with long discussions. What makes you think people need to read other voter's opinions before making up their minds. They may often do so, but it is the image that is important. Nobelpeopleuploader, this is quite important: the FP guidelines do not describe the minimum objective criteria for FP. Indeed, the objective criteria are identical to QI (which this image wouldn't qualify due to authorship). The subjective criteria are judgement as to whether this is among our "finest" and the need for "wow". I can't underestimate how important "wow" is (though sadly often forgotten by some voters who think "nice" is sufficient). A 3MP standard studio product shot that is not creatively lit or presented has no wow. The fact that the detail is insufficient to determine the finish accurately, just emphasises the deficiencies in the image. -- Colin (talk) 08:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Colin. It's among finest, because it's not just a common sharp touristy shot, but it suffers from the comparison with the similar subject (compression artifacts all over the place, jaggy lines probably coming from bad downsampling algorithm...). Also, IMO this is a case where PNG is preferable to JPEG. - Benh (talk) 11:19, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose In my opinion (and I may be wrong), the 2MP limit is there because there might be scenarios (especially action shots in difficult scenarios and scientific imaging) where a higher resolution is almost impossible to get or useless. For a studio product shot, the resolution should be much higher. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 12:30, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose A very well done studio shot, but the low resolution kills it. Look at the highlights along the edges of the piano: Even at full resolution they look like stairways. --El Grafo (talk) 13:41, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment It seems a lot of accounts involved in the promotion of "Steinway & Sons"; so be careful in reviewing them. Jee 16:15, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Just above the 2MB limit is way too small for a high-quality studio shot IMHO. Poor detail, pixelating edges. It’s a nice image but nice is not wow. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 18:41, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 I withdraw my nomination --19:53, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Nobelpeopleuploader (talk)

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Composition of elements; nature reserve "Wildpferdebahn" in Merfeld, Dülmen, Germany

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Monument at Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town. Table Mountain and Iziko South South African Museum & Planetarium building in the background. This monument is in remembrance of those who lost their lives in the Big wars. 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1945.
Thank you for nominating this image. Unfortunately, it does not fall within the Guidelines and is unlikely to succeed for the following reason: great loss of detail due to compression artifacts, perspective distortion and clipped whites on the house --Kadellar (talk) 13:18, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply] Anyone other than the nominator who disagrees may override this template by changing {{FPX}} to {{FPX contested}} and adding a vote in support. Voting will then continue in the usual way. If not contested within 24 hours, this nomination may be closed.

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Result: 14 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 06:05, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 19:51, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Cypriot statue - Neues Museum
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Pen-y-ghent as seen from the south
  •  Info The Pennine Way and Pen-y-ghent from South – c/u/n by Kreuzschnabel -- Kreuzschnabel (talk) 13:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Kreuzschnabel (talk) 13:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I'm sorry but what is Pen-y-ghent? Could you please add a decent description? I find a good description very important when making the decision if I find a picture feature worthy. --Baykedevries (talk) 17:15, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment On a photograph of a mountain, I think it’s decent enough to give the mountain’s name along with the geocoding and point of view. What else do you expect? For further information just look up its name on Wikipedia. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 17:35, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment I was about to say the same. A wikilink in the nom or information page is always handy but my browser has a search box. There's a geocode link too. I'd much rather nominators explained why they think the image is among our finest, which is something I can't find out for myself with a click. -- Colin (talk) 17:53, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      •  Comment Sure I can do a search, but I'm not going to. If you think a picture is feature worthy you can take the time to add a decent description. For me a good description is important and At some point I'm going to ignore pictures without. I'm making a point here. Don't take it personally :) But to many pictures are missing descriptions --Baykedevries (talk) 18:09, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
        •  Comment Since I haven’t understood your point yet, let me ask once again: What do you expect? Or maybe point out some of the active nominations that do have descriptions after your liking (most don’t have any at all, just "c/u/n by $NAME", without you complaining, AFAIS). I really don’t know what you mean. The picture shows the Pennine Way climbing a mountain named Pen-y-ghent from its southern side. That’s what my description says, so IMHO it’s a proper description of the photograph. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 22:22, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
          •  Comment I agree with Baykedevries that often file descriptions (on the file page - it is those that matters) are inadequate as important information is often missing regarding the particular image, but this is not one of those cases. The file page is adequately categorized to e.g. Pen-y-ghent and Pennine Way and if you follow those links, there are interwiki links to articles in several different languages (after I have added them, that is, as they were initially missing). If the nominator were to copy that information to the file page (in how many languages?), it would just be maintenance of redundant information. It would contaminate, not add value. I do think though that it is generally a good idea if nominators check that main categories are adequately linked to wikipedia articles, such that the relevant information can be found fast and efficient. The interwiki links are often missing on Commons categories. --Slaunger (talk) 23:21, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Coat of Many Colours (talk) 21:54, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It is a pretty picture of good quality, but it does not stand out for me as extraordinary. Background is a little soft in focus. --Slaunger (talk) 07:20, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:26, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 22:12, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Pleasant composition and a reasonable QI (could be sharper). The 4:3 ratio isn't generally good for landscape IMO and it is too ordinary a result to be featurable. -- Colin (talk) 07:09, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose No wow and the crop ratio chosen is very appropriate for a landscape IMO. --Graphium 19:48, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Yes, the 4:3 ratio is quite an issue with the micro 4/3 cameras (obviously !). Shooting 3:2 is an option but you loose quite some resolution in the process of course... How sad for those otherwise nice cameras. - Benh (talk) 15:52, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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HMS Belfast with rainbow.jpg
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"NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are (prepared) to begin final cryogenic testing at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center."
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Jkadavoor I have changed the category to Space Exploration. Thanks, --Pine 04:52, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Watergate at the river Ruhr in Mülheim
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Water tower at Tartu railway station
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Reistna colonnade, Valtice (Feldsberg), Czech Republic
Saffron Blaze, you appear to have voted twice. -- Colin (talk) 13:29, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose A QI but not FP. One third of the frame is dull grassland that fails to lead the eye and a shadow in the bottom left. I suggest a little more room left/right and clone out the distracting little birds. The image is only 5.7MP yet not sharp. We've had plenty 36MP+ images get torn apart for sharpness or noise so nominating a 5.7MP architectural image that isn't super detailed is going to have to make up for that deficiency in other ways. Which this doesn't. -- Colin (talk) 12:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose With Colin. Also, I don't think that the symmetry helps here, it makes the shot very flat and isn't supported by the surroundings. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 12:01, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Per Colin. Good but by no means outstanding. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 18:54, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  I withdraw my nomination --Pudelek (talk) 09:53, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Platycnemis latipes, female.
Still looks good sober (*phew*). I should go into rehab, but the football last night was great. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 11:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • The EXIF says f/16; not f/2.8. I think the busy background may be due to increased subject distance. These damselflies may not be friendly for a close shot. And 100/105 is not the best lens to shoot them. Jee 03:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, indeed, it's f/16. And this young lady was very fearful and was not allowed approach. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:34, 16 July 2014 (UTC) I was a bit far from the subject and now I think maybe f/10 would be better for these conditions. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:37, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I must have got confused with several windows open. Well f/16 would explain the busy background. Jkadavoor, do you recommend 150mm instead? Can you get teleconverter for macro? I've read that shooting early morning when cold is good for getting close to insects. But I've no personal experience here. -- Colin (talk) 06:25, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Yes; 150-200mm for big subjects (compared to small flies and bugs), especially in a full frame. Jee 06:30, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 Support I'm supporting everything orange today. -- Uberprutser 17:43, 9 July 2014

Good luck. I'll be watching myself. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:51, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
So is Van Gogh's Sunflowers. What exactly is the perspective issue here? It's 18mm on a f3.5 lens, pretty standard. Looks fine to me. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 08:59, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Take a look at the bottom of the columns at the left side - they look rather distorted. The columns are not fully straight in real but also not that converging as the photo implies (take a look on other photos in the same catgegory). But the main reason for my oppose is the massively blown red channel not the perspective. --Tuxyso (talk) 09:09, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Colors are definitely in vivid mode and may be overdone, I'm curious though what could I have possibly do better next time to make the columns more straight? Do you think that the lenses distorted the actual view? Pundit (talk) 09:12, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Have you used a tripod in combination with a leveler? Have you done any perspective corrections on the computer or is the photo "out of the cam"? --Tuxyso (talk) 11:24, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I have Nikon Capture NX2 and it's default Distortion control of 10% has a barely noticeable effect on the image. The saturation isn't "massive". It's comfortably within 10% in NX2 I would say and a glance at the category confirms the image is not deceiving the viewer, the FP criterion. There's no such thing as the "right" image in photography (lesson 1) and I'm worried that criticism at this level might be alienating ordinary contributors with realtively unsophisticated equipment or resources. It's essentially elitist in my view, and while it has it may have place amongst established contributors of images on Commons, I do think we should be wary of discouraging new contributors. The image looks great. End of. And my comment about composition is quite right, as you can readily confirm looking through the category. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 14:06, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
There’s no such thing as "the image looks great" (lesson 2), it just may look great for you. Please allow others to have entirely different views and opinions. And de gustibus non est disputandum. For instance, I don’t approve of candy colours at all. My nomination of Pen-y-ghent from the east looks great too for me, but nobody seems to like it. So what? --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 14:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Called "wow" here (lesson 3, there really is such a thing). You're not raising issues of taste but technical matters as if they preclude nomination prima facie . And of your two nominations of Pen-y-ghent I supported the first but not the second from the east, which is quite ordinary lacking all wow. What I didn't do was post an "oppose" saying it was nothing special in my own view and opinion to which I'm surely entitled. I would only do that, and probably as a comment, if I felt the image was receiving inordinate praise. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:19, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No perspective corrections or tripod, I leaned the camera on one of the poles of stability. Pundit (talk) 11:55, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Colors are over saturated and when you tilt the lens you will gets perspective distortion. When it looks good, what's the problem? Seems like that perspective is the new noise to complain about. --Baykedevries (talk) 13:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Support I like it. --Baykedevries (talk) 13:40, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Despite the very short description? :-P --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 14:15, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
You're right. I apologize for my rant and inconsistencies. I'll try to do better. --Baykedevries (talk) 17:22, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Over saturated such that red channel is completely blown. Strange vignetting in corners. It is a subject that could have wow, but I'm not convinced the camera framing is doing the best here. -- Colin (talk) 12:20, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Viborg Power Station, Denmark
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 23:03, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 23:03, 8 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:23, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose -- Very uninteresting foreground, sky and lighting. Lacks wow.Fotoriety (talk) 00:30, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Fotoriety: Thanks for the review. Regarding the foregound and surroundings in general I left some space around to allow the building to "breathe". For me the featureless foreground helps the main subject to stand out. Is it correct that you think it should have been cropped tighter? I am sorry you do not like the lightning. I really like it myself and how the sky and coads are partially reflected in the curved ceramic shields surrounding the building. Anyway, there are so many possibilities for taking photos of this building regarding the vantage point, time of day and weather conditions. It is almost like a chameleon to me. If you look at the other photos in Viborg power plant, are there any elements in the framing, light vantage point in some of the other shots which are worthwhile to explore further in your opinion? I live close by, so it is easy to take new shots at it. Or, are you just non-wowed by this building in general? --Slaunger (talk) 06:31, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • @Slaunger: It's hard to say how i would like this photo to be taken because i don't know the dynamics of the environment. However, i agree that a tighter crop would help; as would perhaps lighting such as the bright glow from a sunset also being reflected in the facade. Perhaps also if the photo could be taken at a higher level to give greater depth, that may improve the composition. However, i realise it's a power plant, so room for manoeuvre may be limited. Hope that helped.Fotoriety (talk) 01:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Excellent photo! --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 22:10, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral I'm sorry K, it's a very good quality picture (a no brainer QI) but there has to be something else for FP, imo. Maybe a more dramatic lighting or sky ? I believe a polariser would have given you a terrific sky here. The right building also ruins it IMO. To end with a positive note, I like the composition and the angle you took it from. - Benh (talk) 11:38, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'd have gone for a tighter crop, avoiding the right building altogether. I'm puzzled why exposure bracketing was necessary since the overall image seems to lack large dynamic range. I agree with the suggestion to go when the sky is more dramatic (or make it so with a polariser). Do you think f/11 was necessary? If doing it again, I suggest taking advantage of your stitch to downsize/sharpen/+clarity to make the image look sharper while retaining high resolution. -- Colin (talk) 12:11, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • weak  Oppose no wow here for me even although it is a good QI. I recognize your work with panorama and exposure fusion. But the quality (sharpness, detail level) is probably slightly lower than a single images taken with a D600/D800/5D Mark III and a good lens. So the technical quality is not outstanding enough, we need WOW also. I like the reflections you mention, but it's not enough WOW for me. From a composition point of view, I think File:Viborg Kraftvarmeværk N view 2014-07-06.jpg is better.--ArildV (talk) 10:40, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Fotoriety: , @Benh: , @Colin: , @ArildV: . Thanks all for your helpful comments, and sorry for the late response: Just back from Berlin/Brandenburger Tor being German for one day while seeing a certain highly profiled football match:) I follow your critique. I have never tried using a polarization filter, I will try experimenting with that. Concerning bracketed exposure, I had used a non-optimal set point for the exposure, which did not optimally use the dynamic range, and I should have waited until later to get more dramatic light. I am torn about the crop. One of the architectural ideas with the building is that it should give associations to a ship cruising on the ocean, and to do that one needs some 'ocean' , to give the context of the surroundings, but that building to the right is distracting and ugly I agree. Fotoriety: A higher vantage point is regrettably not possible. ArildV, you are right. The quality is depressingly low when considering the effort of stitching 6 photos each with 3 exposures. I am really disappointed with my kit lens, and I should really get some better glass. But I just have to try harder. The building is nearby, and eventually I will manage to create a photo of great wow of it, as the subject really deserves it. It is actually very wow, when you pass it, I just need to figure out how to capture that. --Slaunger (talk) 12:12, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I recommend getting a 30mm prime, or thereabouts (a 50mm is less useful on a crop camera for landscape stitching). My 30mm (which is also, bizarrely, a full 1:1 macro) is very sharp. It is a little plastic crop lens so wasn't expensive at all and very light on the camera. Don't know if there is something similar for Canon. Of course, if you have plenty money and don't mind the weight, Sigma do some very nice Art lenses. -- Colin (talk) 12:33, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Colin: . Thanks for the advice. I actually went down to the local photo shop today after reading your proposal. and tried out different lenses on the 600 D. I ended up preferring a 40 mm prime f/2.8 from Canon wo IS (I normally disable IS anyhow when using a tripod for these shots)! The lens is quite inexpensive, but is not a macro lens though. It's called the pancake lens because it is very thin and light-weight. It is now on my wish list:) I also ordered a graduated grey filter to try and use that to get a better sky - they did not have the correct adapter ring, so have to wait a few days...-- Slaunger (talk) 20:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Vincent van Gogh's last painting
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5 young barn swallows sitting in a nest that was build in a birdwatchers shed.
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Lighthouse at Cap Formentor, Mallorca
  •  Info all by Wladyslaw -- Wladyslaw (talk) 18:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Wladyslaw (talk) 18:47, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I don't know if this makes sense, but I don't understand the composition (I don't want to sound rude at all). The foreground hill and the background hill (the lighthouse) seem to be together as one because of the colours, but they are not, and this is confusing imo. I don't know if you wanted the lighthouse to be the centre of interest of the picture, but if this was the goal, I think it is too small in the final composition (the foreground hill takes too much attention). Maybe if you had shown a part of the road, it would have helped to lead the eye to the lighthouse. I hope this is an useful comment ;) --Kadellar (talk) 23:00, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your feedback. It's not rude but good argued some good points and I undertsand them. My main intent wasn't to center the lighthouse but it was more or less inevitable. Main idea was to showing the interessting diagonal line that is formed by the foreground mountains and the sourrounding of the lighthouse. In my eyes this image is impressive because this diagonal is interrupted by the cap (background) framed by the sea and sky in different shades of blue. The lighthouse centered and closer from the same position we see here File:Mallorca - Leuchtturm am Kap Formentor4.jpg. I have different versions of this image (not yet published) and I can see if there is a way to show this impressive landscape without haveing the lighthouse centered. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:35, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Several dust spots (see notes about some ones). The horizon is not stright only at left (see note): Barrel distortion?--Miguel Bugallo (Lmbuga) 02:56, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I'll fix it soon. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:35, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Lmbuga: fixed now. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:42, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose A little underexposed, flat light and a small hill in the way of a composition that would work for me. The diagonal line, in my opinion, doesn't work because there is no contrast to support it, and it leads nowhere. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 12:38, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
IMO the diagonal works because we have a strong contrast between the scraggy landscape and the clear blue sea. But for sure this doesn`t impress all persons in the same way. --Wladyslaw (talk) 12:51, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Saint Stephen's Basilica in Budapest, Hungary
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Aletta Hanemans
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please remain a little bit more patient, dear CoMC...--Jebulon (talk) 20:43, 18 July 2014 (UTC) [reply]

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  • With its melancholic mood, the light of this somewat gloomy afternoon fits well with the subject IMO, an isolated statue in a quite desolated landscape, remembering the end of an epic—Vercingetorix's one as well as Napoleon III's one in fact. --Myrabella (talk) 08:49, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • This kind of light is obtained at any time of any cloudy day. And I don't call "desolated" a landscape this green and with this many visible trails. It's obviously fertile and busy. - Benh (talk) 21:34, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Maybe "desolated" is not the most accurate word? Nevertheless, I found the place windy, chilly and a bit sad. There are visitors but noboby lives here, on the top of Mont Auxois. --Myrabella (talk) 08:10, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Fire lily (Lilium bulbiferum var. bulbiferum)
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Filmmaker Jennifer Reeder at film festival Vienna Independent Shorts 2014
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Полонина Григорівка
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Butter Tubs Pass, Yorkshire, England

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Lac du Salagou, Hérault, France.

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"Garibaldi Lake with Battleship Islands, September 2007", Garibaldi Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
The image appears slightly tilted but when I tried to correct it the result still looks tilted. Help from other editors would be appreciated. --Pine 07:09, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Water is a great tool for tilt correction because a reflection should always be on the same vertical line as the original object that is reflected. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 07:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"Cheakamus Lake, British Columbia, at dawn"

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Alto saxophone by Henri Selmer Paris
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Dutch papermill from 1654 on display in the Arnhem open air museum.


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Dutch papermill from 1654 on display in the Arnhem open air museum.
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Coffins with the remains of the Lovers of Teruel in an attached interpreting center of St Peter's Church (es), Teruel, Aragón, Spain. The Lovers of Teruel is popular due to a romance story (read more here if you are interested) that is alleged to have taken place in 1217 in the city of Teruel. The remains of the lovers were buried side by side in one of the chapels in San Pedro Church and in 1555, during some building works in this church, the couple’s remains were found buried together. This love story has inspired writers such as Tirso de Molina and Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, musicians such as Thomas Breton or painters such as Antonio Muñoz Degrain (es).
  • You say it like my opinion is a disease from which it's better to keep distance from ;) - Benh (talk) 19:25, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Je pensais bien que ma formulation était ambigüe... Mais je crois que tu as très bien compris mon propos ! Je ne suis pas triste d'avoir à suivre ton opinion, je suis seulement triste d'avoir à suivre ton opinion ! La nuance est pourtant claire !:)))--Jebulon (talk) 22:27, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Northern mockingbird

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The choir of Chester Cathedral, England
  •  Info created by Diliff - uploaded by Diliff - nominated by Diliff -- Diliff (talk) 18:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Diliff (talk) 18:45, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support All your church interior shots are incredible, this I don't need to say (but it's almost free and always good to read I guess). There's so many details to browse at on this picture. I must find little niggles so, I'd just go for the slight leaning to the right which is noticeable on the left part, and the slight overprocessed look (but given your records, I think this is not your signature, and that the church just looks like that). You should nominate here more often also. - Benh (talk) 19:13, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • I was wondering if someone would mention the overprocessed look. As you say, I go to a lot of trouble to actually avoid this, and I think you're right, it might just be that the church looks like that (it's always hard with multiple light sources and different colour tints also). I process all my HDR images quite similarly, and some just look more processed than others! I can't always explain it. :-) As for the lean to the right, I'm not sure... These old buildings are never completely straight to begin with. I agree that many of the lines that you would assume are vertical seem to lean slightly to the right, but I've also found a few that are vertical and one that even leans to the left. Diliff (talk) 19:28, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 19:21, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Kikos (talk) 19:51, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Some would say "overprocessed", but well... Yann (talk) 20:25, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Would you just share why f/13 and ISO 500 ? I can sort of understand f/13 because you try max DOF, and maybe FF allows you bigger f number before diffraction gets in the way. But ISO 500 ? Is the MkIII this good at handling noise? Is this a kind of sweet spot for dynamic range? - Benh (talk) 21:03, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Well, the main reason for these settings is that it's a compromise of a few different things. Yes, f/13 for DOF, and because I downsize afterwards, the slight diffraction effects at f/13 are not an issue. ISO 500... Well, I usually use between ISO 320 and ISO 640 for my stitched HDR shots, and the reason is that around ISO 100 takes too damn long. ;-) I shoot usually about 10-15 frames, each with 5 bracketed exposures. With these settings, the longest exposure in the bracket set is usually around 15 seconds, so you can imagine that a 5 bracket set will take about 30 seconds in total to shoot (I often use -6EV, -3EV, 0EV, +3EV and +6EV). If I used ISO 100, the total time for the bracket would be almost 1 minute and would probably bump against the 30s maximum before it could even reach the correct bracketed exposure for +6EV which would be annoying. The 5D Mk iii is good enough at these ISOs. Another thing to realise: the tone mapping uses all exposures to build the image, so if you want to brighten the image, you aren't actually having to dig into the shadow detail like you would with a single exposure, you're using the information from the brighter exposures in the bracket instead, therefore it doesn't get as much noise at a given ISO. Make sense? Anyway, a long story short: ISO 500 is to make the whole panorama take less time to shoot, and to avoid hitting the 30 second limit in the bracket. Diliff (talk) 21:59, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
      • Thanks a lot for these valuable insights. I never realize because I go -2, 0 and +2EV. I probably will reconsider that after seeing your results. - Benh (talk) 22:24, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support May I open that red book please? --Kadellar (talk) 23:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC) PS: thanks for the explanation![reply]
  •  Support -- Amazingly detailed image. I downloaded especially so I could enjoy. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 03:17, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support The books look a tiny bit more colorful/saturated that I'd expect them to look in a place like that, but that's by far not enough to oppose. The ornaments remind me of Peter Jackson's version of the gates of Mordor ;-) --El Grafo (talk) 11:38, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Wow! --Uoaei1 (talk) 14:36, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Ivar (talk) 17:18, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support outstanding! --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 18:43, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Wow3! --Slaunger (talk) 20:48, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
     Support +1 Poco2 21:33, 18 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
     Support +1 Nikhil (talk) 02:15, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --King of 02:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Davide Motaran and Patrick Greimel (Italy vs Switzerland), 2014 CERH European Championship.
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Nave and Ceiling of the Cathedral Ste Cécile in Albi, France
  •  Info HDR interior of Albi's cathedral in France. It is said to be a very simple cathedral without lots of details and ornaments in order to convinced the unfaithfuls. — (c/u/n) all by PierreSelim -- PierreSelim (talk) 14:26, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- PierreSelim (talk) 14:26, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment ccw tilt and underexposure should be fixed at least. On a personal taste, The perspective is quite interesting, but I would try to fix verticals, and crop most of the top if necessary. The star here is the rood screen, I wouldn't take the viewer's eyes away from it. (message personnel, si tu as une photo haute résolution prise du même endroit, de la partie inférieure gauche, je suis très intéressé pour boucher un trou d'un panorama que j'ai pris de ce même Jubé il y a 6 ans ! Je n'ai rien trouvé sur Gogole... ) - Benh (talk) 14:46, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Happy to support if some the technical considerations above are addressed, and on this occasion certainly the tilt. Metadata doesn't indicate any digital processing at all. It could benefit from some. Not sure I would want to see the top cropped. That's one of the most interesting thing about the image, which is generally extremely fine I think and should meet the criteria if some work is done on it. -- Coat of Many Colours 16:08, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
  •  Comment Just to share that in case some people don't know, this is one of the very few rood screens which have survived to the present days. It's very well preserved and is full of fine details. That's why I mention it should be the star here. But you are also right about the ceiling, it's quite striking as well and also deserve to get a prominent part on a picture. - Benh (talk) 11:30, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Agree tilt needs fixing. It is hard to tell if underexposed since I wasn't there, but I guess most people would prefer a brighter picture just to see the wood/ceiling in more detail. If the raw file is available then some adjustment with e.g. Lightroom might bring out the best of the image. Also if raw file available, then please save as sRGB since AdobeRGB is not suitable for internet JPGs (and not a good choice for JPG at all, frankly). If you just have the JPG then please change your camera settings to save as sRGB in future. I disagree with the suggestion to correct verticals: if n quality image of the rood screen was to be created, one wouldn't have pointed the camera at the ceiling. I'm sure that screen would make a fantastic picture, but that's not this picture. -- Colin (talk) 11:33, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • It does make a fantastic picture ;) but my mosaic of it has a tiny hole that I've tried to fill from findings on Google... but nothing so far ! - Benh (talk) 11:48, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Comment I'll redo the post-processing, hopefully before the world cup final. Thanks for the advice Colin, Benh and Coat of Many Colours. --PierreSelim (talk) 12:01, 13 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've updated the picture, with a small rotation, a change in the colours profile and also I've tried to retrieve more details from the shadow parts. --PierreSelim (talk) 08:46, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The Silver Argiope (Argiope argentata) feeds on insect caught in riparian forest, anterior-dorsal view - Bonito MS Brazil

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Lahn and Allerheiligenberg near Niederlahnstein.
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Kings of Juda at the front of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, France
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  • +1 !! Tripod, stopping down (and/or ND filter) and I believe you'd flood this page with FP to be. I'd also try with wide angle, but at the risk of endangering your life ;). - Benh (talk) 19:35, 17 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Südmähren Warte (South Moravia Tower), Austria
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View of the old railway bridge in Wesel, Germany
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Figuera Bay, Mallorca
In genereal I could add some sky. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:51, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Fotoriety: why a average lighting? because everythink is visible clearly in beautifull colours? what would be a good lighting? --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:23, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, sorry for asking you. I just see that you're just a voting puppet (with 0 uploads). So there is no reasonable anwser to expect. --Wladyslaw (talk) 04:27, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
That's pretty darn offensive. Unlike many editors, i always make an effort to state why i reject (or support) any FP candidates. Just because you have a photo that shows azure waters doesn't mean that you have taken an FP. To me, apart from the waters, the photo has zero wow that is expected of an FP.Fotoriety (talk) 08:12, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Just your personal opinion without a comprehensible and without an answer to my specific question. I'll bring your attitude to discussion. --Wladyslaw (talk) 08:24, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
[Removed unhelpful comments about the creator as requested on both the talk page and COM:ANI. --Slaunger (talk) 21:05, 16 July 2014 (UTC)] If you require further enlightenment about the lighting (if it isn't already obvious enough), then let me inform you that i consider it to be very flat. Furthermore, you have a nominal foreground that adds very little to the framing of the photo and adds minimal depth; you have a headland that has minimal breathing space above it; the scene should evoke feelings of relaxation and leisure, but is instead emotionless and static. [Removed as well --Slaunger (talk) 21:07, 16 July 2014 (UTC)] Fotoriety (talk) 13:42, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
composition is poor because of? A similar view like File:Pollença - Ma-2210 - Cala Figuera 09 ies.jpg I have already made and will upload this evening. --Wladyslaw (talk) 12:11, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The < shape seems unbalanced and the blunt headland looks oddly contrasted with the sharp triangle at the bottom. The left crop seems rather arbitrary. There is a lot of sharp detail but at screen-size the view of the cliffs are rather flat: the lighting is not bringing out the shape of the hill. The image is so detailed I wonder if another crop might help -- I'll play around with it tonight if I get a chance. -- Colin (talk) 12:50, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral There is a great shot in the bottom left area and a good one on the right, but together, they don't work well in my opinion. It's hard to explain why, but a lack of sky might be a factor, as well as less depth than many other possible compositions. Unrelated to the composition: The rock has halos. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 12:44, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I am convinced that more sky would be positive for the impression (looking on a small thumb shows why) at all. I'll add some sky this evening. --Wladyslaw (talk) 12:48, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And I'm very impressed that nobody of those who critise the light can tell me exactly whats wrong with it. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The fact that it's coming from behind you. — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 21:06, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
To give a little more detail regarding the light and my previous comment:
What I mean: It is obviously not coming exactly from behind you, but the general direction of the sun appears to be within maybe 30 degrees of the direction of shooting. A higher sun angle also usually doesn't help. It actually hurts in that it increases light-shadow-contrast. More on that further down.
Why I believe that it creates bad lighting: If the light is not noticeably coming from either side, shapes that have some kind of non-flat shape (round stones, the general rounded shapes of most landscape subjects) are not pronounced at all. With the sun almost behind you, it is very hard to tell the three-dimensional shape of objects because there is no difference in brightness depending on the surface angle. For good surface rendering, a sunset on either side of the photographer with soft and very directional light would be ideal, as it would have a contrast between light and shadow side of an object that is large enough to define shapes but low enough to be easily captured with the dynamic range of a camera. It also creates a difference in light temperature, which makes shapes even more beautiful to look at. At the other end of the spectrum would be an aerial photo in the middle of the day, straight down. No matter how the surface changes direction, everything will be equally bright and equal in light temperature and if a small shadow appears somewhere, it will be almost black and have sharp edges so that it can't define a rounded shape. Your photo is of course not equivalent to the second scenario, but it is somewhat close. The left part of any hill-like shape is almost equally bright as the right part of the same shape and shadows have very sharp edges and are pretty dark (they still have detail, but in the general composition, they don't help defining shapes because they are more or less binary: Shadow or no shadow, nothing in-between).
Now I'll note that there are of course scenarios where this kind of light doesn't hurt at all or is actually helpful. For more complex materials like shiny things or water, this doesn't matter, and in cases where there are no interesting round shapes, it might also not be necessary to have soft side lighting. But for a majority of subjects, and three-dimensional landscapes are among those, I think flat midday light is not great. It's obviously a question of taste to some extent, nothing is right or wrong in photography, but I feel like many people agree with the general idea that softer and more angled light produces more pleasing results.
I hope this helps in explaining my previous comment. Grüße, — Julian H.✈ (talk/files) 08:33, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info new version with more sky is uploaded. --Wladyslaw (talk) 20:40, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral it's obviously taken from a skilled photographer, and yes the place is interesting and the intensely blue water is calling for a dive, but I was about to point the same issue as other opposers : harsh noon lighting, giving both flat subject and washed out colors, which is noticeable especially on the upper left part. IMO, the same exact photo at sunrise/set (should come from the right on the picture) would be a no brainer FP, but maybe author can't return there this easily... - Benh (talk) 09:13, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Noticed no color profile is embedded in the picture. I think it's an easy fix which can only do good to the picture. - Benh (talk) 19:01, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Main gate Cementerio de Colón
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Reinaldo Melián, trumpeter of Chucho Valdés & The Afro-Cuban Messengers, at a concert in Teatro Circo Price, Madrid, Spain.
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SAI KZ IV
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 11:30, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info The only still functional KZ IV ambulance aircraft with registration OY-DIZ landing at Danish Air Show 2014. Built by Skandinavisk Aero Industri with first flight on May 4, 1944. Restored to its wartime configuration after a crash in 1977. In 1949, the OY-DIZ was christened with the name Folke Bernadotte in honour of the Swedish count who had used this very aircraft to make a diplomatic visit to Germany to negotiate for the release of Danish prisoners in German concentration camps near the end of the war. For more information about the technical circumstances of the photo, see this discussion from EN FPC, where it has just been promoted.
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 11:30, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Too much grass however you can't crop it more because it is already promoted in EN FPC and already a cropped picture (and maybe you don't want). -- Christian Ferrer Talk 21:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC) and the 131mm increase (IMO) the effect of the perspective and give too much importance to the grass. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 21:38, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thanks for you review. No, I will not change the crop in this file, because it is already featured elsewhere, but of course I could upload a new file, which was cropped. But I like the grass as it is. Gives balance to the composition in my opinion in accordance with rule of thirds. --Slaunger (talk) 21:49, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Christian Ferrer: You mention how the 131 mm focal length affects the perspective (in I suppose a bad way). I am sorry, but can you elaborate? What would have been a better focal length in your opinion? --Slaunger (talk) 22:08, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It is not necessarily the focal length the problem, here it is more the association of this focal lenght and this centring and/or crop that makes the composition a little bit unbalenced, I feel as a baby fox who is obliged to raise the head by above herbs to see the plane. In summary the grass is here an obstacle to the reading of the image. How to avoid all this : if I find an answer be sure that I shall tell it you. The no-cropped version is better IMO -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:27, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And if you possess a 200mm or higher of course it would have been better. And if you don't have a 200 or 300mm, a photo one or two seconds before, with the plane a bit more in the sky (=less grass) would maybe have been better. -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:32, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
And in more there is only horizontal lines (plane, grass, sky, background) whitch is certainly increase by your choice of crop....I go to sleep....:) -- Christian Ferrer Talk 22:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Christian Ferrer: Thanks for your detailed response, Christian. I really appreciate that:) The lens I used was actually a 250 mm, and I could have zoomed more, if I were better at panning:) But I wonder if the end result perspective-wise isn't approximately the same after cropping at 131 mm? It was not really possible for me to get a photo when approaching, due to the presence of very enthusiastic aviation photographers with huge tele lenses standing on small ladders and partially obstructing my view:) You could argue, correctly, that if I had been a bit more pro, I would also have brought a small ladder, and I would have arrived as early as possible to get the best possible position, but this was my first air show photographing. Anyway, sleep well, Christian. --Slaunger (talk) 23:16, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Slaunger, to develop just a little more my point of view the comparison with the image above is very well. The both images have a centered position of the main subject, the house with the first and the plane with yours. The both images have also 1/3 of sky, 1/3 subject and 1/3 grass on the foreground. However on the first the use of 50mm give an effect of depth. It is typical of the telephoto lens of to crash the different areas (background, subject, foreground, ...). In this one you can see how focal length affects perspective and in more in this exemple we see only 18, 34 and 55mm, imagine with 130, 200mm... -- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:41, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
@Christian Ferrer: Thanks for taking your time to elaborate further. I understand much better now what your point is. I do not agree it is a problem in the nominated photo, but I understand what you see as being the problem with the focal length. Anyway, not really something I can change in the nomineated photo, so either you like it as it is or not. And it appears most don't really care, actually, as there are no votes yet. --Slaunger (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Saxophonist in Vannes
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The Ionian Academy with the monument of Ioannis Kapodistrias, Corfu.

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Fabienne Keller
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The Dutch "Mona Lisa"
There is already a Featured Picture of this painting here at Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) - The Girl With The Pearl Earring (1665).jpg, but this image has several serious issues in my opinion 1 unsourced and undocumented 2 revoltingly saturated, our poor little meisje in the last throes of terminal hepatitis, and 3 (astonishingly) cropped at the right. An attempt by me to overwrite it with the new Mauritshuis was met with resistance from City Hall, so I am following the letter of the guidelines and offering a new file and a fresh nomination. This enterprising legacy high resolution file File:Johannes Vermeer - Girl with a Pearl Earring - WGA24666.jpg would also be worth attention were it not for the inauthentic rosy complexion, harbinger this time perhaps of the dreaded Plague so rampant in cities of the time not to mention the editor's personal preference in erm ... pink.
Current project (City Hall permitting) is to engage with others writing up the Mauritshuis collection for Commons and I may bring some others here depending on the progress of this nomination Coat of Many Colours (talk) 17:41, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I've requested a "rename" of the file and corrected once here, "Mauritshuis" instead of "Maurtishuis".--Jebulon (talk) 19:39, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Cheers. Thanks for that. My damn eyes and drinking too much I expect. Oh well. The Commons administratot will actually make the adjustment., It's really very difficult for me to cope with that kind of thing, so I would appreciate it if someone could make the adjustments for mew. I think stuff might have got lost here. 20:34, 15 July 2014 (UTC)Coat of Many Colours (talk)
The image has gone. I simply can't manage the small print. This is the link to the newly named file File:Johannes Vermeer -Girl with a Pearl Earring - Mauritshuis 670.jpg. Coat of Many Colours (talk) 20:39, 15 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Raymond Poincaré official portrait
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Curite from Shinkolobwe
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The western window of Liverpool Cathedral, England
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Ayasofya Mosque (Hagia Sophia)
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Raymond Monvoisin - Retrato de Juan Manuel de Rosas.
@Yann: The version linked to is not the one I used for restoration. I used the Argentine government's official image (see [6], which is linked in the description page of the image file). The one you link to, which is also the original upload, is very blue and has lost much of the coloring; the subject looks almost violet, almost as if he was choking (or holding his breath too long)! Best regards.--MarshalN20 (talk) 14:38, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The colors here are also different, which prompt me to oppose even more to your version. Regards, Yann (talk) 18:09, 24 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu temple in Mayapur, West Bengal
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Znojmo (Znaim), Moravia
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Rubus ulmifolius, flowers and buds.
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The Saint Panteleimon monastery is situated on Plaošnik, an archaeological site and holy place in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. It is attributed to Clement of Ohrid, a disciple of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius at the request of Boris I of Bulgaria in the 9th century. Apart from the monastery's many reconstructions during the Ottoman empire, it has recently undergone extensive reconstruction and excavation. Reconstruction finished by August 10, 2002 and most of Saint Clement's relics were returned to the church.

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The Blue and limpid water of the Poço Azul (Blue well) rich in bicarbonates of calcium and magnesium - Chapada Diamantina

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narrow-gauge steam locomotive 997243-1
  • My explanation as requested: Probably a good photo in the family's own photo album. I think the family members love to see the family's son and dad (I guess) together in front of an old train. But that doesn't make it a featured picture. I think the photo is a little uninteresting. Furthermore, I think the man's black backpack dominates the picture too much. For me the train is the interesting part of the picture and that is unfortunately "pushed back" in the up left corner because of the two persons in front. And a cropped version with the train only will not be good because the two heads are blocking for a part of the train. --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 20:37, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jacob Olycan
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Gloriette in Vienna, Austria

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The Warrior on a Horse statue is one of the main symbols of the Skopje 2014 project and is located in the center of Macedonia Square in Skopje, capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Although it is not officially named for him, it is typically thought to depict Alexander the Great. The statue was sculpted by Valentina Stefanovska and completed on September 8, 2011 to commemorate 20 years of the independence of the Republic of Macedonia. The bronze sculpture is 14.5 m tall and it sits on a cylindrical column, which itself is 10 m in height. The column consists of three large ivory sections containing reliefs, each separated by a thinner bronze ring. Each section contains reliefs. The column stands in a fountain and at the base of the column there are 8 bronze soldiers, each 3 m tall and 8 bronze lions, each 2.5 m tall.
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Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) at the Ouzoud Waterfalls, Morocco.
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Polish "Bilet Skarbowy" (treasury note) - 5-zloty, dated 8 June 1794. This note is from the first issue of banknotes by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and was authorized by Tadeusz Kościuszko. The file is already a FP at en-wiki and a part of a valued set here. To anticipate certain doubts - the cut-off top is actually a feature. As an anti-counterfeiting measure, in those times the top margin was cut off and kept together with the serial number of the note, so that by comparing them later to the rest of the note it could be determined if the note was genuine or not.

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Pilatus P3-03 of the P3-Flyers aerobatic team (built in 1958)
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Common frog (Rana temporaria)
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Tarfaladalen
  • You can see Sweden's tallest mountain, and several famous glaciers (notably Storglaciären, which has the world's longest data record). The phenomenon on the left is just a normal consequence of the panoramic projection and the fact that you don't have a straight horizon. Another thing is that the valley increases in altitude from left to right in the panorama. The picture also gives a overview of the research station's location. Alexandar Vujadinovic (talk) 07:37, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question I find it interesting, that it has a big contrast alternating very much between almost white and almost black. I am wondering if the contrast is a little too high? Does it really look so black and white? I seems some features are missing, especially in the dark areas, where I believe shadows could be highlighed more. The researh station buildings has very little colors. Are they really colorless or could the image simply use a little more saturation? --Slaunger (talk) 12:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's how the place looks like during summer - large albedo variation everywhere. Of course, if I did a vegetation-only shot, I would have used the Levels tool to tweak the photo, but doing something here would just create an unrealistic picture. If you want a closer look at the research station and the vegetation (the whole valley is above the tree line), see the Tarfala category that I made... Alexandar Vujadinovic (talk) 13:16, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Guaruba guarouba -Gramado Zoo, Brazil

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Console detail from the Berlin City Palace
I agree that an afterwards removal of the shadow wouldn't improve the image; a shadow is not necessarily an evil, but this one is simply too harsh for me, which is hardly avoidable with an object placed so close to the background. --A.Savin 21:00, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 24 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 15:39, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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french embassy in Vienna, Austria
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Korsö torn (tower), Korsö island, Stockholm archipelago.
  •  Info Korsö torn (tower), Korsö island, Stockholm archipelago. Originally built as a lighthouse in the late 1700s, later used as a military observation tower. The images was taken from a chartered helicopter, as part of Wikimedia Sweden aerial photo project. Created, uploaded and nominated by -- Arild Vågen (talk) 12:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- ArildV (talk) 12:02, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Question Nice pic. Perhaps a little boring centered composition. Weird. When I look at the cliffs in the foreground they appear duplicated or motion blurred. In theory it could be because the vantage point was changing during the shot, while you were focusing on the tower, but I would be surprised if this happened with 1/1000 s exposure unless the helicopter was moving very fast? It could also just be because of the f/4.5 aperture and the associated low DOF. --Slaunger (talk) 12:15, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • Slaunger: even a pro lens as the 24-70 has weakness. The border sharpness at long distances is the weakness here. DOF should not be a problem here, because of the distance to the object (at least 200 meters altitude above the sea, and some distance from the tower and the island). There is no downsampling and almost no crop here, normally you do not see 24mp aerial images. Here is a 3 mp version of the same photo, looks very sharp.--ArildV (talk) 13:43, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Christian Ferrer Talk 17:39, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Alex Florstein (talk) 16:40, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 15:30, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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The mysterious 15th century Shirvan Dynasty mausoleum and graveyard in Shamakhi, Azerbaijan.
I think its the terrain or even the structure that is tilted, as you can see in the background the graveyard is located on hilly terrains. Azeri (talk) 15:26, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Alternative view on the Butter Tubs Pass
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Brantôme, Reposoir XVIe, France.
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Head shot of Little pied cormorant (Phalacrocorax melanoleucos)
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Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 11:34, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Lijiang, Yunnan, China: Naxi people carrying the typical baskets of the region; scene from a public perfomance in Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Open Air Theatre.
 Comment I'm surprised that morally opinions are part of a FP review. Might it be, that you just love to attract attention? For a photographer, a critics about technique or composition is acceptable, but this kind of opposition is kind of hurting, to tell you the truth. --CEphoto, Uwe Aranas (talk) 11:41, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
It was meant as a joke. I thought a position as absurd as being morally opposed to empty baskets was transparent enough. Apparently not. Saffron Blaze (talk) 14:57, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Saffron Blaze, in a multilingual project such as Commons, it may not be evident for all non-native English speaking users, or users with other cultural backgrounds, what is intended to be a joke. In honesty, I was in doubt too, if you were joking or not. I think, that if it was meant to be a joke it would have been more reasonable to add it as a comment instead of an oppose vote. Due to your single joke-oppose, the FPC cannot be speedy closed after five days, but now have to stay open the full period. The 5-day rule for no-brainer FPs is intended for cleaning up clutter on the FPC page and let reviewers focus on the images, which actually need more attention from reviewers. Thus, I think the criticism raised by Cccefalon is justified. In addition getting a "clean sheet" promotion is kinda like an extra acknowledgement. Something I have never achieved myself, but which I have great respect for when happens - when it is justified as in this case. --Slaunger (talk) 15:20, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment I took it as a joke too but remember your "joke" keeps this nomination from swift featuring. Put as comment it would have been funny but an oppose (which will be counted as serious by the bot) is ridiculous. --Kreuzschnabel (talk) 05:49, 28 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 27 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 05:08, 30 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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New Court of Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, England.
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Commons:Featured picture candidates/

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File:Kickxia floribunda 1.jpg
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Result: 2 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 Neutral Due to missing light the structure of the plant is imho not brought out well. As ArildV said composition is nice. But Nobelpeopleuploader an insect on a plant is not a serious reason for your oppose, is it? Tell me it's just a joke. Insects are not very seldom despite you go into a greenhouse. --Tuxyso (talk) 07:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Result: 2 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Lighthouse at Cap Formentor, Mallorca (Spain)
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Result: 4 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:46, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Mønsted limestone mines
  •  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Slaunger -- Slaunger (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info An illuminated path in the largest limestone mine in the world, Mønsted limestone mine in Denmark. The limestone mine has been excavated over a period of almost 1000 years from the early 11th century untill 1978, mainly by using pickaxes or other handheld tools. The mine has over 60 km paths of which 2 km are illuminated. Some paths are like huge halls, others not passageable by a grown man. In the path shown here is clearly seen how thick layers of limestone alternate with thin layers of flint. The photo itself is an exposure fusion between three bracketed exposures with exposure times of 6, 15 and 30 seconds using CA corrected raw files as input into PTgui. In hindsight, I should have had an even shorther exposure time on the most underexposed photo as the point light sources are slightly burnt in even the 6 sec exposure. Done with an aperture of f/10 and ISO 200 (if i go higher I begin to introduce notieable noise with my camera). I have spend a great deal of time playing around with the exposure fusion to highlight the layered structure, which is not quite as evident when you are in the mines, as well as make the representation faithful. It appears lighter than it really is, as the light sources are weak. A ghost is seen in the long time exposure shot wearing a handheld lamp leaving a light trail. Almost unavoidable due to many guests in the mines.
  •  Support -- Slaunger (talk) 23:01, 19 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Yann (talk) 09:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Nobelpeopleuploader (talk) 20:27, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --XRay talk 06:19, 21 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Rjcastillo (talk) 14:04, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Alex Florstein (talk) 16:41, 23 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The encyclopedic value of such a shot is undoubtedly high, your explanation is very interesting and one can guess that the shooting conditions were challenging.. But from a pure photographic viewpoint I cannot see FP aspects here: I cannot get a compositional idea, the motive is visually not interesting (no interesting stone formations, no interesting colors), the bright lights distracts from the structure of the mine which should be the main motive. --Tuxyso (talk) 08:03, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    • @Tuxyso: Thanks for taking your time to review the photo and provide a detailed explanation. A photo of a limestone mine will of course be rather limestone colored all over with no particularly interesting stones. I think the layer formation between limestone and flint is quite notable in the photo formed in a surprisingly complicated process. But of course, taste differs, and I respect you do not think it has it. --Slaunger (talk) 19:53, 25 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak  Support. I share a few concerns with Tuxyso, namely the lack of interesting colours or rock formations, although I am still wowed enough by the image to support. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 00:56, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:45, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 7 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:49, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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Richard Skuse during a rugby match
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Result: 1 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /-- Christian Ferrer Talk 04:51, 31 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]