Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Panorama of Ballyness, Northern Ireland

Panorama of Ballyness Townland, Dungiven, County Derry, Northern Ireland

 * Reason:Highest quality example of this particular view in Northern Ireland.
 * Articles this image appears in:Drumsurn
 * Creator:garretttaggs


 * Support as nominator --Garretttaggs (talk) 06:18, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Needs a conversion to a non-progressive JPEG and a reupload to debork thumbnailing. Wikipedia's thumbnailing servers don't like large progressive JPEGs. MER-C 09:34, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Please reupload as a non-progressive JPEG per above. The sharpness is lacking, f14 is too narrow. I think you could have picked a better time of day/year too. Shooting into the sun tends to worsen haze, cause flare and leave the sky blown. Noodle snacks (talk) 09:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I had a month to make the shot... My fault I didn't get it right. I was trying to get the foreground in relative focus as well as the background to create a sort of vista effect. Any idea on how to increase the sharpness next time around? --Garretttaggs (talk) 19:16, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Try about f8-9 instead of f14. See Airy disk for the physics justification. Biggest problem is shooting straight into the sun though frankly. Noodle snacks (talk) 00:16, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose per NS, minus progressive JPG concerns. MER-C 06:41, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The "slope" of the horizon is distracting, aside from above listed concerns. --Dante Alighieri | Talk 21:01, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment As is just so happens, that is the natural lay of the land, as I had my tripod dead level. In fact, there is a hidden stream in the forest on the right hand side of the valley where all the water flows to. You can even see the mouth of the River Foyle and it is also perfectly level. --Garretttaggs (talk) 03:04, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe I'm seeing something different. For example, when I look at the "bay" or other body of water in front of the far hills, I see a definite curve from the left to the right side. One would imagine a body of water should be "flat" across it's whole surface. I would be surprised to hear that that would be a true representation of the lay of the land. Perhaps an error in the stitching algorithm? Or, if this was a single shot, some sort of barrel distortion? --Dante Alighieri | Talk 16:39, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Having your tripod dead level does not prevent curved horizons and so on because of parallax error. I am not sure what software you used to stitch this, but you might want to read up on vertical/horizontal control points for the future. Noodle snacks (talk) 08:34, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I am actually of the opinion that this is simply an illusion provided by the fact the bay gets wider and thus the shore line stretches further back in the horizon, giving the impression that the water level varies at points when in fact it is just more water on a different parallel.--Garretttaggs (talk) 13:16, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

- ☩  Damërung   ☩   .  -- 09:01, 26 July 2009 (UTC)