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•  Info created by Tagooty - uploaded by Tagooty - nominated by Tagooty -- Tagooty (talk) 06:24, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Aerial view of the Shivaliks (foreground) and snow-capped Lesser Himalayas, Himachal. The mist and bluish cast are typical of a winter morning (brought out by haze reduction) -- Tagooty (talk) 06:24, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Comment Tagooty, I assume you used Lightroom's Dehaze slider? Dehaze (together with Clarity and, to a lesser extent, Texture) can have a knock-on effect on Saturation, Contrast and Sharpening. Dialing down these sliders will often inch back the image closer to reality. Looking at the original version of the image, an alternative editing approach may be to apply haze reduction selectively, rather than to the entire image. You could perhaps use a couple of graduated filter to dehaze the sky/distant mountains and closer ridge without affecting the beautiful mist in the middle of the image? -- Julesvernex2 (talk) 10:00, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Oppose Outstanding motif, but technically not. It's too noisy. --Milseburg (talk) 14:20, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

•  Done @Julesvernex2: @Milseburg: Thanks for the reviews. I've reworked with graduated filters to dehaze only the distant range, sky and the foreground ridge. Noise is reduced. Please see the new version. --Tagooty (talk) 14:56, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

• Tagooty, in my view this is quite the improvement and a testament to what these modern 1-inch sensors can do. My remaining couple of suggestions are smaller and may already creep into the domain of photographer's choice: i) going back to the original image, some detail seems to have been lost to noise reduction. Selective noise reduction (stronger on the sky and lighter on the mountains) may be a worthwhile compromise; ii) I would be tempted to play with a warmer white balance, but I assume the blue cast was there in reality? -- Julesvernex2 (talk) 16:09, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
• @Julesvernex2: Thanks for helping me with LR's graduated filters -- very useful tool. I've done selective NR on sky/distance only. Slight reduction in blue cast in the fore/middle as it was mid-morning. The blue cast is more pronounced early morning.
  I find the combination of the stacked BSI 1" sensor + Zeiss-branded lens in the pocketable RX100M6 rivals a DSLR. Especially when shooting from a cramped seat in an ATR-72 plane. --Tagooty (talk) 02:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

•  Support The differences to the original image seem subtle at first, but they hit all the right spots, great work. When you have a chance, do try out Lightroom's latest masking features (subject and sky selection, complex intersections), they are also very useful. -- Julesvernex2 (talk) 08:49, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

•  Support Impressive --Kritzolina (talk) 21:12, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Weak support after latest edit. Daniel Case (talk) 13:46, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support for the improved version, as per Julesvernex2. -- Radomianin (talk) 17:55, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Yann (talk) 20:20, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 21:30, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 22:16, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Ximonic (talk) 02:40, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 06:37, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Tournasol7 (talk) 07:51, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Cayambe (talk) 09:13, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 11:29, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Schnobby (talk) 12:28, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:56, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 19:36, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:35, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --IamMM (talk) 05:06, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulp❯❯❯here! 17:08, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 10:55, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Cmao20 (talk) 11:32, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support --Famberhorst (talk) 17:00, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Dinkum (talk) 17:27, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 23 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Magogre (talk) 02:11, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

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