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•  Info created - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:33, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:33, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support ---GRDN711 (talk) 07:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Looks dangerous without life jackets in the wooden box.--Ermell (talk) 09:16, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

• Yes some activities around these waterfalls are very risky with accidents every year, but it is also a beautiful environment -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support Wow --Commonists 09:29, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

• Another sockpuppet of Livioandronico2013. - Benh (talk) 11:55, 27 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support --Ivar (talk) 12:07, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support -- Radomianin (talk) 15:15, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 16:29, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --XRay 💬 18:36, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 18:53, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Comment Despite the excellent composition and mood, I'm not confortable with the technical quality. The lack of detail and overall fuzziness suggest the image may have been subjected to agressive denoising. But I may be wrong, of course. -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 20:36, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

• It was shot at 100 iso, the best I could manage, but of course slightly underexposed to avoid blown highlights or burnt sky. Some noise appeared in post-process when adjusting the light to a normal level, and then removed with Topaz DenoiseAI, a professional software used with the standard parameters (here only 15%, thus quite moderate). Using the bracketing technique with longer exposure times to produce a HDR image was too complex due to the boat in movement intended to be frozen without motion blur. See the picture at lower resolution. Thanks for the feedback -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 21:24, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Michielverbeek (talk) 22:27, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --IamMM (talk) 04:28, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 07:18, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 11:20, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Milseburg (talk) 14:50, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 15:48, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Oppose Beautiful composition, however the post processing was not good, aggressive noise reduction (Mainly visible on bushes or rocks lacking any texture) and unnecessary HDR (The dynamic range of the camera was already sufficient, adding different exposures damages and sacrifices sharpness. In the best of cases it is preferable to carry out a selective unification by layers), focus problems on the person in the boat, finally please add the HDR appropriate category --Wilfredor (talk) 19:44, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Info As said above, it is not a HDR image. I wrote "Using the bracketing technique with longer exposure times to produce a HDR image was too complex", that's why I did not use this technique (that would have helped otherwise). But note that longer exposure times would have changed the aspect of the water too -- Basile Morin (talk) 22:52, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Isiwal (talk) 07:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:39, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support wow Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 12:17, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
•  Support What is the long stick in the middle left for?--Famberhorst (talk) 16:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)

• These bamboo sticks are supports used by fishermen to hang their nets during maintenance -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:15, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Neutral Just to wonder why there seems to be some selective NR on the rocks. And wouldn't it have been better to catch this a bit before the sun sets? But I wasn't there, and here you got the fishermen. - Benh (talk) 08:42, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

• Before sun sets, the rocks would certainly have been more illuminated, but the sky color less intense. And yes, the boat was there at the right moment, which is in my opinion something special, because rare. These fishermen navigated very carefully, and most of the time near the shore, lucky this time it was in the middle. Moreover, it seems extremely difficult to control the boat in these choppy waters. Concerning the NR, it was global, not selective. You can see the sky and the trees are quite good, because the brightness range was selected from this part. The rocks appear much darker, although the light was increased in post-treatment, that means they were almost black in my RAW (and noisy afterwards). In my experience, shooting in front of the sun almost always induces such a loss in detail -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:27, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

•  Support I prefer a version of the image with more sunlight taken a bit earlier, but the scene under these conditions is also very impressive.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:08, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 20 support, 1 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:23, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Natural#Laos