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• Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural
•  Info Dried out lake in Sossusvlei, Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. c/u/n by me, Poco a poco (talk) 20:05, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Poco a poco (talk) 20:05, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support - Very striking. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:42, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --The Cosmonaut (talk) 21:36, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per Ikan.--Ermell (talk) 22:08, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:18, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment Tilted? —kallerna (talk) 05:34, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

  Hard to say, —kallerna, the right side (Big Daddy Dune) is definitely higher than the left one, and the people walking on the crest of the dunes look straight to me. Do you see a reference in the picture that definitely shows a tilt? --Poco a poco (talk) 18:47, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment The tilt is obvious when you look at the mountains in the background. —kallerna (talk) 11:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Neutral Very nice view and well-done panorama (stitching these curvy lines without too many good precise reference points available is quite hard). I find it a bit soft and the light (particularly on the dunes in the middle and distance, towards Dead Vlei) too harsh, though. --Domob (talk) 05:57, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Peulle (talk) 07:45, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 08:44, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support fantastic landscape! --Ivar (talk) 09:13, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support At first I thought this might be too similar to some of your other dune panoramas, but looking through your FP category there aren't any others quite like it in terms of composition. I guess it is a bit soft in places as Domob says, but this is a 111mpx panorama so it's not worth being that picky. Cmao20 (talk) 10:48, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support In generally I don't really like panorama pictures. But this is pretty good for my eyes . --Hockei (talk) 18:34, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose very obviously tilted. - Benh (talk) 19:12, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

  I imagine that your comment is your particular answer to the question I made to kallerna above. I'd still like to see proof of that tilt somewhere, if you don't mind. Poco a poco (talk) 20:19, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

  Poco, it's tilted. It's sad an experienced photographer like you can't see that at first glance (and it's sad so many people don't notice). I like discussing technical stuffs, but not trivial ones. The farther dunes can be considered a good reference and are very tilted. The pond can be used as reference as well. - Benh (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Love that long shadow of the guy walking across the sort-of bridge between the two dunes ... Daniel Case (talk) 06:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

• Yeah, that's cool. Thanks for the hint. --Hockei (talk) 08:49, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

•  Comment Perhaps one way to address the harsh light that Domob mentioned would be to even out the sky gradient, so that the hotspot in the middle is not as eye-catching (e.g. by applying a couple of positive graduated filters in the corners - with a colour range mask to exclude the dunes - and then a top to bottom negative graduated filter - to create an even sky gradient). I find this technique useful to minimise the uneven sky issue in harsh light panoramas (e.g. like this one). PS: I think Poco a poco went to great lengths to avoid perspective issues in the stitching process: to my eyes, both the bystanders on the left and on the right seem to be upright. --Julesvernex2 (talk) 10:53, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

* Oppose per Benh. The horizon in the distance seems 2.5° ccw tilted to me. Coordinates are missing to check this more closely. The people are far too small to check something on their upright gait. Otherise very good, but the alignment failed so far. --Milseburg (talk) 14:27, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

• Milseburg: There you are, I added the coordinates --Poco a poco (talk) 19:49, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

  Thank you. The desert landscape changes the relief relatively quickly. But back and forth moving dunes don't justify such a tilt. I slightly changed the coordinates for a calculated panorama to the Big Daddy Dune to show that the horizon is not so tilted anywhere in that area. --Milseburg (talk) 14:45, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

  Milseburg, what do you think now? --Poco a poco (talk) 20:02, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Oppose The tilt has not been corrected. —kallerna (talk) 07:01, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Meiræ 15:43, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
•  Weak oppose Clearly tilted to me also (2.3 degrees CCW, so not a little bit). Very nice otherwise. But now the mountains of the background seem to slide to the left, and the level of the water of the pond is not horizontal. I imagine this as a poster, this would not be very natural. Fixable, tough -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:12, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Abstain The tilt has been fixed but only Milseburg got the notification. My comment above can be right or wrong, depending on Milseburg's opinion, and wether the change is reverted or not before the end of the voting period. Thus I'm just going to stop helping this candidature now -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:37, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

• Basile Morin: as Milseburg seems to be an expert in horizons I opted for asking him first before I ping everything. Anyhow, it will unlikely have an influence in the outcome of this nom Poco a poco (talk) 15:06, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

• "Expert in horizons", lol. Never heard about that skill Anyway the candidature is closed now. Finished -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:25, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

•  Support I almost missed it. It is better that way and seems realistic to me. --Milseburg (talk) 16:44, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 2 oppose, 1 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 10:44, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

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