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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Natural phenomena
Info created & uploaded by User:KristianPikner - nominated by User:Ikan Kekek -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:07, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Support -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:07, 26 June 2018 (UTC)- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:00, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
Comment It looks artificial, with saturated colors. Exploring the other pictures of the photographer on his user page, I find most of them strongly "photoshopped", like for example this sunset and this one both shot within an interval of a few minutes only, but showing very different tones (and I've never seen a sun yellow like this, except on my screen when I'm playing with the settings). So not really convinced by this night shot, unfortunately, that I suspect similarly over-processed -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:29, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- I think the yellowish light has more to do with the camera. My camera, and some other I've seen, has the same problem with some red wavelengths. I can look at a very red sunset, but in the photo I take of it, it comes out very yellow. Many electronic devices see and record light spectrum differently than our eyes. That is why you can check if your TV remote control works by looking at it through your mobile camera. You don't see the light from it IRL but on your mobile (and digital camera) it shines brightly. --Cart (talk) 09:13, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Basile, your examples are well chosen so that we can see your point clearly. However, for a picture of an aurora, this looks possible to me, but mind you, I've only seen an aurora once, in Massachusetts (we could see some activity for a few days), and it was by no means as vivid as this one, much further north. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:50, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Yes, concerning the yellow sun, I was talking about this one File:Loojang_08.01.2017_-_Sunset_08.01.2017_1.jpg or this one File:Loojang_08.01.2017_-_Sunset_08.01.2017_2.jpg, given as examples for strong processing. I think it's true that cameras don't always give the same result than the eyes. Sometimes you see a cloudy sky and when you shoot it becomes white, until you fix the settings. So I'm not against the post-process, on the contrary often useful, but this is very important to do that moderately, and not to fall in the extreme to invent something that never existed (for this kind of documentary photograph). Here in this nom how was really the landscape, the sun and the stars ? No idea, it's hard to trust -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:00, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- The problem with red sun and sky turning yellow in a camera can't be fixed by adjusting the settings. It has to do with certain wavelengths and not how bright an object is. --Cart (talk) 13:24, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- This one is a 10-second exposure, though the others you link to were .008 seconds and such. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:10, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- True, but it doesn't mean than the colors have not been strongly altered. Also 10 seconds seem short to me for 2500 iso -- Basile Morin (talk) 10:17, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- I find the discussion a bit of the point. Yes, the saturation has probably been pushed up a little bit, and yes, that is not what you would see with bare eyes. But, honestly, no picture taken with long exposure at night does, as the camera is much more sensitive, and subsequently all long exposures show something "artificial". When comparing the colors of the aurora to what I have seen/pictures I have taken in Iceland and Norway i do not think that the saturation has been pushed too excessively. --C-M (talk) 19:16, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Weak support While there are some quality issues, it's a very beautiful picture --A.Savin 12:27, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- P999 (talk) 13:20, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 14:14, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Tozina (talk) 19:23, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 02:25, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support Daniel Case (talk) 06:08, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 11:39, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --C-M (talk) 19:16, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Llez (talk) 11:45, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
- Support Poco2 17:53, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
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