Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/2012-03-14 21-42-55-file-etoiles-14f-2min-3d.jpg

Star Trail Photography
Voting period ends on 10 Jul 2012 at 12:25:53 (UTC)
 * Reason:high quality, featured in commons and encyclopedic.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Star Trail Photography
 * FP category for this image:
 * Creator:Bresson Thomas


 * Support as nominator --al (talk) 12:25, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Support good illustration of this type of photography. Can you work on expanding the article? Pine✉ 19:40, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Weak Oppose. It's okay, but I don't think it's that difficult to create a better photo. I know there's nothing in the 'star trail rule book' to say that it must include the nodal point, but you get a better sense of what exactly is happening in the scene when you see the stars 'rotating' around that point. I'd be happy to take on the challenge to capture a better photo but light pollution is pretty terrible where I live at the moment Perhaps later this northern hemisphere summer, I'll have a few opportunities. &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  09:20, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. The distortion of the wide angle lens makes the horizon bow and some of the more peripheral star trails follow a slightly counter intuitive path. It also looks like this image is a merged stack of 14 long exposure images which makes short gaps in the star trails, again slightly confusing. - Zephyris Talk 10:54, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Oppose I think a great star trails photo either has to include more stars (in a, necessarily, darker sky) and the pole, or else include some interesting landscape below. It is too easy to find better examples in a Google Image search, though of course they are not free or in high resolution. Colin°Talk 12:22, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sure I could also find a few old star trail photos taken with my old 5D (honestly don't think I've bothered to take a single star trail photo in the 7 years I've been in the UK, such is the light pollution and cloud cover) that would fit the criteria... &#208;iliff    &#171;&#187;  (Talk)  12:25, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 21:26, 10 July 2012 (UTC)