Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Valdez, Alaska Harbor Panorama

Valdez, Alaska Harbor Panorama

 * Reason:Fantastic high resolution image of a notable city; great contrast between natural backdrop (perpetual sunset and mountain range) and the human activity (ships and major petroleum loading station).
 * Articles this image appears in:Valdez, Alaska
 * Creator:User:Srvora


 * Support as nominator Nimur (talk) 05:05, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Very obvious stitching flaws, from obviously visible overlap to drastically different exposures in different segments (especially in the far left segment when compared with the others . Clegs (talk) 05:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - valid concern regarding the boat stitching, but I think the darker left-side is due entirely to cloud shadow. Nimur (talk) 05:54, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: There is no mis-matched exposure. I examined the EXIF data from all the photos and they were all taken with the same settings. F/4 aperature, 6mm focal length, shutter speed of 1/160, Pattern metering mode. The dark clouds on the left were indeed dark. The original photo of that segment goes until the end of the first blue-hulled ship named Blue Note. I do agree there is a stitching error towards the right side of the image. Would a crop satisfy the community? Or are there other more intrinsic problems? Thanks for your comments. Saket (talk) 06:00, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per Clegs. Looks unnatural. Nothing special. —αἰτίας •'discussion'• 21:50, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Need to be downsampled and re-stitched using a more advanced sticher like Hugin (software) to remove stitching flaws and ensure vertical verticals. --antilivedT 23:11, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, I am opposing this not only because of the stitching errors, but also because of the lack of technical quality. The picture is unsharp, slightly noisy and there appears to be some fringing at the edges of the mountains. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 13:53, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose Per above points. -- Shark face  217  23:49, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

MER-C 02:26, 29 December 2007 (UTC)