Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Kinner Kailash range and Kalpa

Kinner Kailash range and Kalpa
Voting period ends on 21 May 2022  at 04:37:03 (UTC)
 * Reason:Majestic view of the Kinnaur Kailash range of the Greater Himalaya, and the town of Kalpa in Himachal Pradesh at dawn. Rare picture on commons showing a panaroma of the whole range.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Kalpa, Kinnaur district
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
 * Creator:Anubhav Agarwal


 * Support as nominator – UnpetitproleX (talk) 04:37, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Given the lighting, a little graininess is expected, and it's a stunning photo. Support Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.8% of all FPs 16:54, 11 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Support per Adam and in part, due to F&f's ridiculously orientalist arguments — lacking basis in any policy — which would have put Naipaul to shame. TrangaBellam (talk) 18:47, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I note that at the moment of writing TrangsBellam supports the picture in part they say because they oppose my arguments, but I have not voted  Fowler&amp;fowler  «Talk»  23:13, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support.-- Vulcan  ❯❯❯  Sphere!  04:14, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. This picture has been edited from another one, apparently to remove some text naming the peaks. I find that unobjectionable. But there are other editing artifacts that show up as well. The one it was edited from had what looks like a stitching artifact where the mountain background was brighter on one side of a pole in the lower left than on the other side; this has been reduced but not eliminated. And all of the mountain ridgetops have heavy black outlines, probably from too much unsharp mask. The nominator speaks above about blithely cloning out objects visible in scenes (unobjectionable when the subject is a person and the cloning is something irrelevant in background, but more problematic when the subject is the scene itself). Some odd bright red stains on the lower left edge have been replaced with odd grey-brown stains that are harder to spot. It makes me wonder how much more manipulation there is that I am not seeing. But it also makes me skeptical that this image is GA quality. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:07, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the input. The image has also had some red and blue chromatic aberrations removed, all edits performed by me. I’d just like to point out that removing objects that distract from the scene, correcting stitching errors, etc are routine, uncontroversial fixes. Especially in FP nominations, such fixes are frequently requested by the voters themselves. I can point to several nominations on both FPC and here where this is the case. UnpetitproleX (talk) 10:18, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Also, the cloning out remark was in reference to a particular previous nomination, not a “blithe” suggestion to indiscriminately clone out objects visible in scenes. :) UnpetitproleX (talk) 10:36, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose – Sorry but the composition doesn't work IMO. With all the sky on top, the village looks squeezed in the bottom (the framing looks unbalanced). The lighting and the bright sky makes everything look dark. Also, I am not sure about the pinkish sky, it looks a bit overdone or unnatural. Bammesk (talk) 02:35, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 13:05, 21 May 2022 (UTC)