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File:Île de la Cité shortly before sunrise, West View 140320 1.jpg, featured

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•  Info All by me, -- DXR (talk) 10:53, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, this is obviously the sort of view pretty much everybody has seen before, but I think the morning blue hour (?) - the image was taken at 06:30 CET - makes the location, which is nice anytime, outstanding. The image is a HDR, but I have been careful to use it as a pure dynamic range expansion tool and think that it does not introduce any fake effects here. -- DXR (talk) 10:53, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --(✉→Arctic Kangaroo←✎) 11:22, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support —Blurred Lines 12:17, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Paris 16 (talk) 12:28, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support nice composition. Very good --Rjcastillo (talk) 13:20, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Very stunning result. I would prefer less processing (would make the noise less dominant and give some areas more contrast) but the result fulfills what I expect of a FP. — Julian H.^✈(talk/files) 14:36, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Jean-Éric Poclain (talk) 14:43, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support--ArildV (talk) 15:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support-- That's just lovely. Saffron Blaze (talk) 15:35, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Very good. -- Colin (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support -- Arcalino (talk) 18:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 21:30, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Baresi franco (talk) 22:08, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Very good. Nonetheless I think FPC votes have a massive bias torwards photos with water reflections (as I know from own noms) :) Could you shortly say which HDR technique was used? Software? Fusion vs. tone-mapping? BTW: There is no excuse required if you use HDR techniques - in contrary. --Tuxyso (talk) 07:22, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Tuxyso, I exported the five images from RAW in LR, did a fairly conservative tonemapping in an ancient version of Photomatix, exported it as a (gigantic) 16-bit Tiff and did some final touches in LR, again. --DXR (talk) 13:24, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

•  Support -Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:36, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --JLPC (talk) 09:32, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Really great image! Halavar (talk) 11:01, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --AmaryllisGardener (talk) 12:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Christian Ferrer (talk) 18:03, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Comment Think again, my friends. Yes, sunrise is nice, light coming from back could be nice when is compensated by HDR. But this city landscape? I don't think it's the best idea. The only justification could be that in this hour there is no traffic, no people. Don't let the nice sunrise sky and water reflection fool you. Composition is poor. Something on the left side but rather empty, the center part is very busy. Poor details, main object in shadow, dull colours. Most of you and also the author have given these reasons when opposing good images. Now you don't see these flaws. Just think again. Of course you could blame the reflection in biased voting. --194.132.180.242 21:57, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing. — Macbeth 

Saffron Blaze (talk) 23:08, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

•  Support --XRay ^talk 08:23, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support but still improvable IMHO adding a bit more of the bridges in both sides, the crop is not the best I think Poco² 18:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

• Poco, you are correct, but regrettably I cannot add more space on the left. In my defense, it was very early when I took the photo, and there was a slightly irritating and most likely intoxicated person not far away from me that persistently tried to converse with me in ways that well exceeded my knowledge of French. That was obviously not helpful for my concentration ;-). --DXR (talk) 19:20, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

• No worries, good work anyhow! Poco² 19:28, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

•  Support Michael Barera (talk) 01:21, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
•  Support Beautiful. The reds on the left more than make up for any lack of activity. (Oh, and DXR, just how "intoxinated" were you when you typed that? XD) —ATinySliver/^ATalkPage 04:06, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Haha... I knew there was something wrong with that word... --DXR (talk) 05:16, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

•  Comment I'm not fan of the colours and contrast especially the dark dones. One one hand part of the images gives pretty soft colours, due to the light at dawn, on the other hand their are pretty very strong dark tones with a mix of green and black wich is not in my taste. --PierreSelim (talk) 12:43, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 23 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /—Blurred Lines 12:33, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Cityscapes