Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Hdpe pipe installation.jpg

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File:Hdpe pipe installation.jpg, featured[edit]

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  •  Info created, uploaded, nominated by -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support -- Tomascastelazo (talk) 19:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment -- Could you try a bit more saturation of the sky and some overall sharpening?Fotoriety (talk) 00:20, 1 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment -- Very good subject, we see a lot of images of objects, but very few of activities. The overall quality is however not quite up to standard for FP, sky is very washed out. --NJR_ZA (talk) 08:08, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    Agree, very nice shot but with some quality flaws, sky and part of the truck are overexposed (could you try to darken those areas?), furthermore the horizont is not straight, the picture needs tilt / perspective correction (very obvious at the right side) Poco a poco (talk) 10:24, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Well, well, well.... This is a picture taken under existing light under real conditions of an activity. Regarding sky: if you observe, the apparent over exposure on the right is due to the existing haze and its proximity to the sun, so no amount of burning in will give us a saturated sky. The sky in general is hazy and that is the way it was in a natural manner. But again, this is not a picture of the sky, nor a landscape. The horizon is not tilted: it may look tilted, but that is the way it is. What you mistake as tilt is actually a slope (look at the cones), look at the man on the right, tilting the image would tilt the man, furthermore, look for a real visual reference, there are light poles and electricity lines hidden in the image with a nice vertical. There is a great dynamic range in this image, from dark to light, with detail in shadow areas and highlight areas, with minimum blocking on either side of the scale. If you take the time to look at the histogram you will see that yes, there will be overexposed areas on the truck, but what do you expect of a white subject lit by sunlight? Gray? The amount of over exposure is so minimal... It may not be the most exciting image in the world, but it is an illustrative image of construction. One thing are real quality issues and another imagined quality issues. Photographs must be evaluated according to real conditions, not about what is possible to do manipulating the image. I could make the pipe pink. My point is, read the photograph for its message, its content, the real conditions and the limitations of technology, not some imagined defects. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 14:19, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Firstly I think the composition is first class. I love the diagonal of the pipe and the opposing angle of the crane on the truck. The men are focusing on their work and the nearest man signalling gives some action. It is a dynamic image. But the contrast is far too high (and I'm looking at the image in a high-quality factory-calibrated monitor with Lightroom, so I don't think this is just my settings or poor equipment). I tried some simple adjustments on the JPG. I took the contrast down -60, the whites down -99 and added +15 clarity (which restores local contrast). Those numbers will be quite different for raw processing and different on Lightroom 3 vs 4. And I would expect a better job to be done on the raw than the JPG. Those simple changes opened up detail on the image that were lost. The truck bonnet now has a form (still blown whites in places but I'm totally ok with that for reasons Tomascastelazo gives). The cranes and hills in the distance are clearer. The sky is still bright but has a little colour and more pleasing (though a few sensor dust spots show up now, which can be easily fixed). Making a photograph doesn't stop when the shutter clicks. I don't think those adjustments change the reality of the photograph at all, and in fact, enable the viewer to appreciate the scene. I would support this if better processed. Colin (talk) 12:45, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Colin, that is in my book constructive intervention. I´ll be happy to send you the original raw file for you to make the adjustments, and in the process I can really learn something. Email me with your address and I will send the raw file to you. Many thanks! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 13:53, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 10 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky talk 05:45, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Objects
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