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Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, Colombia. The place is a popular pilgrimage location since the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1754. The first shrine was built by 1750 and was replaced by a bigger one in 1802 including a bridge over the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present temple, of Gothic Revival style, was built between 1916 and 1949.
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  •  Info Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, Colombia. The place is a popular pilgrimage location since the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1754. The first shrine was built by 1750 and was replaced by a bigger one in 1802 including a bridge over the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present temple, of Gothic Revival style, was built between 1916 and 1949. All by me, Poco2 19:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support After the unsuccesful nomination of the previous picture of this amaizing building I try it again with a more spectacular view of it and an overall better quality. Poco2 19:46, 12 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak  Support. The railing at the bottom left is distracting; perhaps you could do a crop on the left without taking away too much from the composition? Anyways, the lighting is great. Maybe a bit oversharpened in the center, but within my range of tolerance. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 02:53, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support More fantastic this way. Not perfect—distortion and some noise at edges—but it looks like there were tradeoffs. You could have played it safe and cropped down to just the church, but I can see why you'd want the context. Daniel Case (talk) 06:39, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I have a few comments: First, I am having a very hard time believing the colors, especially given the fact that the image is a HDR (I hope referring to this this is not taken as bad faith, but in your colombia cat you have two identical images that are HDR and normal and here again the oversaturation effect seems way above merely solving high-/lowlight challenges). Of course I have never been there, but both the blue and the greens appear just too vivid to be true and even if they are, they kind of drown the monochromatic main subject in a sea of color. You solved the issue of the far-from-ideal light pretty well. Beyond that, the crop is really not convincing to me right now. I have added a note crop that removes the distracting parts at the left and helps put the main subject into focus without losing actual context. As it is, it would probably be a weak oppose from me right now. --DXR (talk) 07:32, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • The amount of local contrast and saturation enhancement also worries me a bit, mostly in the background and the sky. The latter look natural on the right and around the tower but becomes quite strange-looking towards the top and left. The subject itself looks fantastic. — Julian H.✈ 17:19, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • I agree with both of you. I don't know exactly what workflow Poco uses for his HDR work (previously it was Tufuse I believe?), but from my experience, when processing an HDR file in Lightroom, it's usually necessary to increase the contrast quite a bit (I often need somewhere between +20 and +40). However, this has the knock-on effect of increasing saturation considerably (they should really fix this because contrast shouldn't mean saturation). I also find that with the usual Lightroom HDR processing method of decreasing highlights and increasing shadows, the microcontrast is also automatically increased, and needs to be countered with negative clarity. If Poco is using Lightroom now, it might be that he needs to consider the effects that I mention. Diliff (talk) 21:11, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Seems oversaturated and the sharpness at the edges is really bad (could be solved if you would crop as suggested by DXR). However, nice subject and composition. Looks like a fairytale setting. --Code (talk) 09:07, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support WoW --LivioAndronico (talk) 10:40, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Much more impressive than way, but as others, it would be much better with a crop on the left. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:52, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:40, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose has a fisheye effect. I think that cropping the left and right edges would be helpful. --Pine✉ 18:45, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support --Ralf Roleček 19:39, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Edges are too soft. Diliff (talk) 00:01, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose The colors look too artificial --Uoaei1 (talk) 08:23, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  strong support I hope we have an FP for this beautiful church. The setting, the weather, lighting, superbe dramatic perspective, composition (big wow in short)... all compensate the slight bluriness on the sides IMO. And I'd rather have a picture with little technical issues which wows me than the opposite. - Benh (talk) 09:05, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • I agree that its a worthy subject and good composition, but considering how critical you've been of my HDR processing the past, I'm surprised that you haven't said anything about the processing used here - it doesn't look that realistic to me. Oversaturated and strange variances in contrast. Diliff (talk) 14:12, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • You must be talking about a rood screen nom of yours, and I remember the overprocessing could be seen even on the thumbnail. I don't think it's overdone here (but author has since reduce saturation) and wow would largely compensates. - Benh (talk) 08:11, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
        • Yes, that's the one. But I think the overprocessing can be seen very clearly in the thumbnail of this image too. It's not just the saturation, it's the tonality too, you can see strong haloes where the trees and the sky meet. Anyway, just thought it was interesting the comparison. Diliff (talk) 09:03, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
          • Ah yes, didn't see that part. Not a bad faith comment, but unless I look at that part, it doesn't scream overprocessed. Wonder how the unprocessed one looks like though. Rest of my comment still stands - Benh (talk) 10:34, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment I have reduced saturation in both versions Poco2 20:40, 14 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Seems oversaturated to me (I don't say "it is"). I'm not comfortable with the colors, sorry.--Jebulon (talk) 21:53, 15 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Christian Ferrer 09:02, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support - Rainbow unicorn (talk) 19:12, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Las Lajas Sanctuary is a basilica church located in the southern Department of Nariño, municipality of Ipiales, Colombia. The place is a popular pilgrimage location since the apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1754. The first shrine was built by 1750 and was replaced by a bigger one in 1802 including a bridge over the canyon of the Guáitara River. The present temple, of Gothic Revival style, was built between 1916 and 1949.
Are you sure that you are using the right term? A fisheye lens distorts in a very obvious way, like this. Although this image was taken with a fisheye lens, it has been corrected to remove the effects. --DXR (talk) 19:22, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 13 support, 3 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Laitche (talk) 22:09, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Religious buildings
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