Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/View from Chatham Islands.jpg

View from Chatham Islands
Voting period ends on 21 Oct 2010 at 17:22:46 (UTC)
 * Reason:A striking image illustrating what the islands actually look like.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Chatham Islands, Te Tai Tonga
 * FP category for this image:Places
 * Creator:Uploaded by Chin tin tin from Flickr by Ville Miettinen


 * Support as nominator --Aaadddaaammm (talk) 17:22, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment. In uploading this, I found out it's already been nominated and shot down. Second time lucky eh? Aaadddaaammm (talk) 17:31, 12 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak support it is a nice-looking picture; I like the composition and the colours. It is a well-executed HDR tone mapping, and presents this place in an attractive way. However, the image is very soft, possibly due to the following reason: EXIF data shows that the image was shot at f/1.4, which is probably the largest possible aperture for the lens used, and usually lenses perform worse at such a large aperture. Furthermore, this aperture setting results in a shallow depth of field, which is not suitable for this type of photography, and usually causes some vignetting, which is somewhat visible in this picture. It is also possible that this HDR picture was taken from multiple handheld exposures, resulting in mild misalignment that degrades image quality when aligning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Purpy Pupple (talk • contribs) 20:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I am just curious, but what is the EV for this image? Nergaal (talk) 00:34, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The EV is that it's a photo showing the reality of a place that very few people in the world will ever go. There are only a handful of photos taken from the islands on commons, and this is far and away the best of them. Aaadddaaammm (talk) 07:29, 13 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Note Previous nomination Katalysator (talk) 08:26, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose, very over-processed. Those are not natural colours. J Milburn (talk) 18:05, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I haven't been to the Chathams, so perhaps I'm not qualified to comment, but from what I've seen in Southland and Stewart Island (which have a similar cloudy maritime climate), this doesn't seem too unrealistic. A bit yellowish, perhaps, but that ties in with the low-angled early morning shadows. --Avenue (talk) 08:10, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Weak support. Nice scene, but the image is a bit small, and quite soft. --Avenue (talk) 08:10, 15 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose It looks fake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.57.79.178 (talk) 02:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 08:19, 22 October 2010 (UTC)