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File:Pelican Hill and South CDM by D Ramey Logan.jpg, not featured[edit]

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Pelican Hill and South CDM
  •  Info Uoaei1 I am traveling at 110 MPH, 1500 feet off the ground here, and flying the plane too, aerial photography is tough. Subject is the location, Pelican Hill is a famous golf course and CDM, is Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach California. This is the South tip of the area... The picture is taken with a full FX system and for a photo taken while traveling at 100 mph+ it is no more blurry (IMHO) then some of your pics with the DX 7100 that have made FP, in the past... (Note: the crisp shadows on the golfer's below me) just my 2 cents...--WPPilot (talk) 14:40, 16 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Sadly it is not lawful as this area is the Departure zone, for the local airport and Drones are not legal in this area as well due to airspace restrictions... --WPPilot (talk) 18:08, 17 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose It may be how it actually looked, but the colors just seem unnatural to me, like what you get when you overdo it with highlight suppression. Plus the unsharpness and composition issues noted in other !votes. Daniel Case (talk) 02:21, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I really like this picture and I think the colors are fine. Check out the aqua swimming pools and the drought painted grass in the foreground. "Painted grass?" you say... Yes all over California golf courses are treating their grass with a coloring agent to provide the "green look" during this multi-year drought. Being in southern California, as is obvious from the scrub vegetation (with parking lots) between the coast road and the ocean... you can see the fake green of the golf courses so obviously. And that fuzz at the top is more likely salt haze from the ocean spray channeled between the two headlands in a light onshore breeze than actual blur... because I don't see any blur on any of the other three sides and if it were going to blur from the lens, it would go all the way around, and if it were blur from the plane, more than just the top geographic feature would be impacted. So I also see that slight fuzziness at the top, and I see the unnatural green grass, but because it's obvious why it's unnatural that doesn't affect my perception of the image. I had a friend visit California one time who is from England and his comment was he now understands the odd colors in video games because that's just "California colours". BTW, I had the same reaction when I saw the Indian Ocean from western Australia the first time, the blue was just unnatural... but there it was obviously quite natural in the ocean right there. Every place has "its colors". Ellin Beltz (talk) 17:52, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I'm afraid the upper third of the picture is too blurred for FP. There's a double image effect. Not sure if that is caused by photographing through glass or vibration. Perhaps 1/250s is not fast enough or the VR did not do it's job. -- Colin (talk) 15:54, 19 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Info Colin I did not shoot this through glass, btw. It is a shot right out my open window. The combination of aperture and shutter speed in aerial photography differs from that of stationary photography for a number of reasons. The camera is moving at 120 MPH, so the time the sensors read and the shutter drops can cause that effect up top, but I think its just remaining ground fog that is in that area every morning this time of year. I could have used a higher f-number to correspondingly darken the image that falls on the image sensor, you can still achieve optimal exposure if you slow shutter speed in proportion, and while traveling at 120 MPH one would think that the slower shutter speed would capture the movement of the airplane and thus create a blur on the entire photo. That area in the distance has closed once the sensor was triggered, the objects in the near field are crisp as the distance the plane has moved in the time it took the shutter to release is greater in terms of % then that of the area under the plane changed relative to the distance from that hill at the top. I did shoot these in a bracketed mode and have others but I felt that this one is the best due in part to the vibrance of the "painted lawn" that shows such contrast to the other natural colors in the area's around it.. --WPPilot (talk) 03:29, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 7 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → not featured. /--Mile (talk) 08:14, 25 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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