Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Crimea, Ai-Petri, low clouds.jpg

File:Crimea, Ai-Petri, low clouds.jpg, featured

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• Gallery: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Natural#Crimea
•  Info created & uploaded Dmytro Balkhovitin - nominated by Ivar (talk) 07:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ivar (talk) 07:27, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Comment - I have trouble believing in all that purple. Do you? -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 07:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Ikan Kekek: Why does the sky sometimes turn purple? --Ivar (talk) 11:08, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

•  Support Gorgeous sunrise. Not shocked by the colours at this time of the day, although it's probably emphasized a bit which is fine as editorial choice. - Benh (talk) 09:28, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Oppose I have no problem believing in the colors as such since I myself have photos pending editing that are way more purple in raw. But I'm not as forgiving as Benh about the rest of the processing. Too enthusiastic use of clarity and contrast plus raising the highlights on the rocks makes it look like some 90s fantasy painting, a style very common wrt Ukranian and Russian photos. I'm not fond of it though. Take a look at how nice it would look with a little dialing back some of the "usual suspects" clarity, blacks, highlights, contrast and dehaze. Color is not touched just slightly less vibrant. I would have no problem supporting a photo like that and it would probably look stunning with some proper from-raw editing. --Cart (talk) 12:40, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Breathtaking view. Excellent photographer Balkhovitin who won the 2nd place POTY 🥈 2013 with a nomination that doesn't look over-processed, the 1st prize Wiki Loves Earth Ukraine 2019 with this candidature, and the 2nd prize in 2017. I've just nominated 1, 2, 3 at QIC, there are more available. Here the light is special due to the golden hour, that naturally enhances the colors. Nice foreground, well balanced composition, and I find this sea of clouds impressive -- Basile Morin (talk) 03:45, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:51, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 08:40, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support per others. I'm satisfied by the explanation of why the sky could look purple. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 09:28, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Definitely the benefit of the doubt. Great shot. Charles (talk) 09:38, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Aristeas (talk) 12:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support A bit oversharpened IMO, but OK --Llez (talk) 12:37, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 13:26, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support although I think Cart's edit would be fine, too. Daniel Case (talk) 19:20, 17 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support It does look a bit unnatural at first, but at full size I think it's OK. Cmao20 (talk) 20:54, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support My fingers feel cold from looking at the picture. --Podzemnik (talk) 22:07, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support.--Vulphere 13:59, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support Poco a poco (talk) 18:41, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --pandakekok9 05:16, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
• Weak  Support Minor halos at the rocks and IMO the image is leaning out. All in all it's acceptable. --XRay ^talk 06:06, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 17 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /--Cart (talk) 17:51, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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