Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Naajaat

Naajaat


This is from an exotic place, which can only be reached by helicoptor or boat. The view is excellent and it gives a precise representation of a small present day Greenlandic settlement. There are no shops in this settlement. So either you catch your food yourself (seal hunting or fishing) or you have to travel by motor boat for more than one hour to the closest settlement. It is a stitch of 18 handheld photos taken with a compact camera in 2007. The technical quality is not perfect (which is my main concern). There is a varying degree of softness in some photos used in the stitch. Moreover, there are some overexposed areas in the left hand side. Personally I think it is overcompensated by the visual qualities of the scene, but I wonder if reviewers think it would stand a chance? --Slaunger (talk) 21:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Articles this image appears in:Naajaat


 * Creator:Slaunger


 * Suggested by: Slaunger (talk) 21:50, 25 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Comments:
 * Do you still have the original files? I don't think the overexposed areas are a deal breaker, but the soft areas might be. It may just need a restitch. Looks pretty nice at thumb though. Noodle snacks (talk) 02:23, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I do have the original files. The are problems with softness in some of those - or should I say that, they are crisp enough but mainly at the mountains in the background. I do not think the softness is due to the stitch. I recall spending quite some hours fiddling with in in Hugin in december 2007, but since then Hugin has improved guite a bit as well and it may be worth trying to restitch it. A good thing is that there is good overlap between the individual frames. A somewhat hard thing is handling the boat which is drifting from frame to frame. I think it goes beyond my abilities to improve much on it though, but I would be happy to upload the individual images to get a second opinion of chances of improvement. Now that I have a DSLR it is somewhat dissapointing to look over three year old photos from a compact camera. I should not have been such a skinflint back then with investments in equipment as the views were really breathtaking and worth capturing with better equipment. :-) --Slaunger (talk) 07:49, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I uploaded all the source photographs and linked to them from the source field on the file page in case someone wants to evaluate it this can be done better in a new stitch. I do not think I can make it much better myself. I someone want to try themselves with a new stitch, I would be grateful. --Slaunger (talk) 22:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I restitched it. I think the most glaring problem (some blurryness about 1/3rd from the right) has been improved by omitting a frame. There are still some less significant foreground problems. I'd give it a go, there aren't many photos from that part of the world. To avoid the problem in future focus about a third of the way into the scene, then go to manual focus. If your camera doesn't have a manual focus mode, then hold the shutter button depressed half way and it won't change. Noodle snacks (talk) 01:19, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for helping me on this one, Noodle snacks! AFAIK you do not have that much internet bandwidth, and I really appreciate that you have taken you time to download all those photos and work on that not so great base material. I agree with your comments. The panorame has undergone significant improvements with your restitch. I have a DSLR now and I am much more in control of photos for panoramas nowadays than then, where autofocus played me a trick on my compact camera. I have added you as coauthor on the file page. Please check that it is as you would like it to be. I also deleted some postprocessing details from the file description as I guess you must have followed another procedure. It is still stated that hugin was used for stitching. I do not know if that is what you have used? If you have used something else, would you mind updating the file page description - just the English description? OK. I will give it a go and try to nominate it and see what happens... --Slaunger (talk) 19:18, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Conclusion
 * Seconder:
 * Closed by nominator and nominated at WP:FPC --Slaunger (talk) 10:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

