Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Soldiers patrolling wheat field in Afghanistan

Soldiers patrolling wheat field in Afghanistan
Voting period ends on 28 Dec 2018  at 11:57:58 (UTC)
 * Reason:Good quality, striking composition and contrast of both the subjects, their camouflage, the wheat field in the foreground and the mountainous backdrop. Public license. Content wise it shows soldiers on a foot patrol, which I assume is representative of a significant amount of time out in the field in Afghanistan.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Special Forces (United States Army), United States Army, Gulistan District, MultiCam
 * FP category for this image:Featured_pictures/People/Military
 * Creator:Spc. Joseph A. Wilson


 * Support as nominator – MiG (talk) 11:57, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I've been kind of waiting for others to comment. That looks very vividly-coloured, but it is a beautiful image, and it's not actually unbelievable for young wheat. Support. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about % of all FPs 13:27, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * I was wondering if the color temp was a bit too yellowy, but I don't know. Sca (talk) 14:17, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That was the one minor question mark I had as well. My first assumption was local lighting conditions (maybe dust in the air, judging from the shadows the sun isn't particularly low), however if you zoom in on the wheat in the foreground, the yellowish haze seems concentrated in the kernel areas, the blades themselves are green (cfr the distinctive wheat patches at knee height to the right of the frontmost soldier). -- MiG (talk) 16:25, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
 * The 'haze' is haloing from excessive use of tone mapping, probably from a highlight reduction tool in an image editing program. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:34, 19 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Oppose based on the haloing mentioned above. JJ Harrison (talk) 05:36, 19 December 2018 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 12:52, 28 December 2018 (UTC)