Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cassilis Historical Area

Cassilis Historical Area
The once thriving town of Cassilis now lies as a ghost town. This image I feel captures the feel of the place and is quintessentially Australian.


 * Support Self Nom. --Fir0002 22:05, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose, the image is so busy in places that it seems to turn into noise. The abandoned cars don't seem specific to a particular town, or even a ghost town. Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 23:20, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Opppose Wrecked cars are quintessentially English as well!! I don't see how car wrecks illustrate the feel of a ghost town, but it does illustrate a ghost car-and-truck-dump quite well :-)) - Adrian Pingstone 23:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I can see this featured on commons for pure image quality, although to me it has that weird exposure blending look that some of Fir's pics exhibit lately. But I miss notability and the subject looks somewhat like a (very old) junkyard. --Dschwen 14:21, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Interesting critique considering your comments here ... :-) --Fir0002 02:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose. I agree with Dschwen, Fir0002's images have looked a bit quirky since he has been using DR compression techniques. The idea is good but that sort of thing requires a lot of skill and a good eye.. It is quite easy to incorporate all of a scene's dynamic range but the result often look rather false unless you can do it in a way that fools the eyes into believing it. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:06, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Oppose - I wondered what was odd about the image, if it's DR compressed, that explains it. I'm opposing mostly because the image is basically unintelligible at thumbnail size (ie, I had no idea what the purple thing was until clicking on it, making it pretty useless for illustrating articles. And usefulness is our primary concern. It's also not (IMHO) very pretty :) It is, um, interesting though! Stevage 12:58, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * To be fair though, an image doesnt have to be self explanatory in the thumbnail. It comes with a caption that explains what it is! And although a FP is essentially the lead image to an article when displayed as Pic of the day, it does also come with a detailed summary of the image/article so you're never really clicking it blindly. That said, I agree with you. It looks a bit messy, lacking contrast. It mirrors roughly the dynamic range of our eyes but it doesn't display it the same way our eyes perceive it, so it looks strange. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 13:28, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It doesn't have to be "self-explanatory", but I really had trouble understanding that I was even seeing trees with a wrecked car until I saw the bigger version. Something about the dynamic range makes it look just like a mass of colour. Image:Cassilis historical area.jpg illustrates the place better anyway. Stevage 02:04, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Token Support. I like this and the other, similar one you had on FPC - daring subject, interesting details. – Outriggr § 03:54, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I love the quality DR compression gives it.. I could never figure out why the color/feeling of the image intrigued me so much. That junk looks magical or something, haha.  Also, ah, it's not that notable.  Even if its an historic area, not much differentiates *this* junk from oh say, Cadillac Ranch in west Texas.  :D.  so, neutral.  drumguy8800   C   T  10:21, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

--KFP (talk | contribs) 12:31, 22 November 2006 (UTC)