Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:A Colony of Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) at Alkefjellet, Svalbard.jpg

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File:A Colony of Brünnich's guillemot (Uria lomvia) at Alkefjellet, Svalbard.jpg, featured[edit]

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A large breeding colony of Brünnich's guillemot on Alkefjellet, Svalbard
  • Slaunger so you'd rather like this version? I hate to tell you that such brightness does not reflect the real situation that we were faced with when reaching the rock. After a terrible overnight storm and a morning full of thick fog we reached the cliffs just when the fog started to lift. The scenery reminded us very much of the dark landscapes shown in the Lord of the rings trilogy. The nominated photo is attempting to bring exactly this feeling across despite a histogram leaning to the left (which the original does to an even larger extent). I guess we both agree that a photo may at times attempt to confer a certain impression; in this case it really is the situation we found. You may also agree - despite the fact that your recommendations lead to a wonderful, almost sunny version - that the nominated version does not miss anything found in the brighter one. Thank you again for your thoughts, I appreciate very much that you are considering my photos so seriously. --AWeith (talk) 22:07, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral AWeith: Indeed my proposal was aimed at making the photo look better with a more efficient use of the dynamic range - and I did not realize the scenary looked very different for you. I agree that if the scenary looked more like Mordor or another dark location in Tolkiens universe, my proposal is not at all a truthful representation, and it would be wrong to do as I suggested above. I do not get quite an impression of such a dark Lord of the Rings landscape though in the nominated photo (where is the eye of Sauron? (just kidding)). It is something in between and looks a little dull wrt lightning, although it appears to contain all the relevant details as you correctly point out. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I took note of you mentioning that the original histogram leaned even more to the left. I do not think that is an argument for how it should look, that is more an indication of non-optimal exposure control! When shooting a low-contrast scene such as this in raw it is a good idea to try and shift the histogram as far to the right as possible without clipping by increasing the aperture and exposure time as much as possible wihtout introducing a too shallow depth of field and without introducing noticeable motion blur. Like in your case, you use an aperture of f/9, which with your focal length of 70 mm and your camera gives a depth of field from 13 m to infinity according to DOFMaster. Increasing the aperture to f/7.1 it only increases the near field distance by two meters to 15 m. This would give you almost four times more light intensity the sensor and a better signal/noise ratio (you have ISO 500). This can be used to either expose to the right or to lower the ISO. Both options would lead to less noise in the darker areas. If the original capture seems too bright you can always fix that in postprocessing of the raw by lowering exposure as long as there are no blown areas in the raw. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:18, 10 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 13 support, 0 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /lNeverCry 21:37, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural#Arctic
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