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•  Info created by - uploaded - nominated by Basile Morin -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Llez (talk) 05:48, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Not the sharpest, but great colors and composition. Could perhaps be brightened a little. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 05:51, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Buidhe (talk) 06:35, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 07:19, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Yes a little brighter for me too. Charlesjsharp (talk) 08:00, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Strong support IMO a really magical photo. Cmao20 (talk) 15:33, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support FP sky to me Poco a poco (talk) 18:55, 15 July 2020 (UTC) PD: If we were strict with the timing, these 2 FPCs where initiated too early, indeed less than 5 days before the other 2 where over. In fact I understand it like this that you should have waited until the FPC Bot adds the speedy promotion template (which could be in worst case 5 days and 8 hours after the nom started) and not earlier. Poco a poco (talk) 19:06, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Totally agree. This nom was inserted in the list at 5:01, more than 5 days after, but I should have waited for the bot. Apologies. Thanks -- Basile Morin (talk) 23:12, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Question I love the sky and water, but I'm trying to figure out why the trees look the way they do. Is that just because of the light, or did you sharpen them somewhat, such that maybe it would be worth looking at them with somewhat less sharpening? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:14, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks, Ikan Kekek, for your question. There is no special sharpening here, but certainly denoising. To get the colors of this sky without blown highlights, I had to shoot in lower exposure. But of course, due to the high contrasts, the trees were almost all black. I had just a silhouette. Not bad, but I made the choice to recover some details in these darker parts by lowering the shadows in Lightroom, and this naturally resulted in heavy noise. Although it is taken at 100 ISO, this noise was visible, at least at full size especially in the sides. Note there was also wind. This is a single image, and you can see the sky is fine at full resolution (a lot of details captured in the yellow & orange area). The weak part is certainly the trees, but the aim was to get some volume for this island. This is what my eyes could see in reality without special glasses! A solution I see now to get less noise would have been to take two pictures for tone mapping HDR, however, it was so windy, at slower speed the leaves would probably have been blurry. The image looks better at lower resolution. But the subject is more the sky over the water, with these gradients, pink and white clouds -- Basile Morin (talk) 07:28, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you for the explanation – I was also wondering about the look of these trees, like Ikan. --Aristeas (talk) 08:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

• Yes, thank you. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 08:49, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Support --XRay ^talk 08:14, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 08:41, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support The trees and bushes do give me some pause, but this is so striking! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:33, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Ermell (talk) 22:08, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been ... Daniel Case (talk) 01:35, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 18:22, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 05:04, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Christian Ferrer ^(talk) 09:37, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Strong support --Kulawik.pl (talk) 10:14, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Tja. -Killarnee (C•T•U) 19:30, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 18 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Poco a poco (talk) 08:01, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

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