Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Chachani

Summit of Chachani Volcano

 * Reason:A high quality, picturesque image of the summit of one of the highest volcanoes on Earth. High EV, and illustrates topic well.
 * Articles this image appears in:Chachani
 * Creator:Nattfodd


 * Support as nominator --&mdash; Sunday  Scribe  22:49, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. Originally I thought that it didn't give a feeling of mountain's height like the other pic on the article page, but then I realized that it's huge EV comes from showing the atmosphere and the dryness, so, yeah, that's my reason for support. Intothewoods29 (talk) 04:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support. As the photographer, I'm obviously biased but still like this image very much, and think it makes a fine job of showing the mountain and its environment. --Nattfodd (talk) 07:11, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment It is a good picture imo because it illustrates the environment quite well, rather than the geographic location. For the latter purpose, I think that a photograph from an adjacent peak, or the valley (with appropriate zoom lens) would work a little better, not least because I suspect (never having been to this location iirc) the valley view is what most people will see and hence recognise. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 14:16, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support less edited version, Oppose Original per criteria 8 (Avoids inappropriate digital manipulation). The contrast is jacked up way too high. Looks completely unnatural (dark sky, bright ground). Kaldari (talk) 21:34, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's "inappropriate". It's no different from what most cameras do internally, I just choose to have more control by modifying the curves myself during post-processing. As for the sky, you can see in the "less edited version" which was posted afterwards that it's very dark indeed (my guess is that it's because of the extreme altitude).--Nattfodd (talk) 18:46, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * That one looks more realistic to my eyes. I would expect a mountain summit to look a bit hazy, rather than having perfect levels. Kaldari (talk) 19:12, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Mountain summits are often in the clearest air available. de Bivort 23:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Guess you've never been to the Smoky Mountains :) Kaldari (talk) 15:16, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Guess you don't know the meaning of "often" :) de Bivort 22:47, 16 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Comment I've added the less edited version to the nomination. Hope that's okay with everyone. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 17:34, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support either. de Bivort 23:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Support less edited version. Diego_pmc  Talk 17:09, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

MER-C 05:09, 19 September 2008 (UTC)