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File:Torre-Mozza Toscana.jpg, featured

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•  Info created by Digitalsignal - uploaded by Digitalsignal - nominated by Digitalsignal -- Digitalsignal (talk) 14:13, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Support -- Digitalsignal (talk) 14:13, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Weak support Over enhanced, but nice shot. Could we tone down the vibrancy and contrast a little? Not completely sure of the educational value...would it fit in some other articles? theMONO 18:28, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
  •  Info No such vote as "Weak support" in FPC -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 19:24, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
  • Fixed Thanks for your suggestion, I have turned down a little vibrance and contrast. About educational value, this is one of the best preserved coastal guard towers (XVI century) in Tuscany (Italy), it has its own page on Italian Wikipedia. Digitalsignal 19:07, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Support Very nice. Steven Walling 21:39, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Question First, what are the orange things? -- One, please. ( _{^{Thank you.}}) 16:12, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
  •  Info They are supports for beach umbrellas, you can see one of them in the foreground. Digitalsignal 17:32, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
    • I see that and yet they're so weird-looking I still had to ask. Very interesting pic and composition to me, so  Support. -- One, please. ( _{^{Thank you.}}) 04:19, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Weak support technically not perfect but composition is very good, interesting view --Mbdortmund 10:19, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
  •  Question Thanks for your support, but which weak points do you see technically (exposure, dof, composition, distortions, color rendition..)? Thanks for your answer/Danke für deine Antwort Digitalsignal 10:29, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

The sunshade and the sky above are a little noisy, same on the top roof of the tower and there is a little distortion over the whole picture what is OK with 14 mm lens. Still it is a very good photograph due to your really nice composition. --Mbdortmund 12:05, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Fixed Thanks for your suggestion, I have re-developed the RAW file by means of a different software, so I have got better noise reduction (without introducing loss of details) and better lens distortion correction. Vielen Dank! Digitalsignal 13:12, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

•  Support Tomer T 14:26, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --Ximonic (talk) 14:24, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
•  Support. Good composition, noise much improved. Is the white spot in the sky between the umbrella and the tower due to a stuck pixel or something real (e.g. a plane)? --Avenue (talk) 14:59, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  •  Info Thanks for your appreciation. The white spot is a white bird in direct sunlight. Accurate inspection on the original RAW file shows no presence of any artifact. Digitalsignal 19:04, 01 May 2011 (UTC)
•  Oppose all these umbrellas disturb the major object of this image that is the "torre". Ggia (talk) 16:11, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  •  Info Thanks for your critic, it gives me the opportunity to clarify that this picture portraits not just the building (torre) but also its present-day context (as stated in the caption, too). The contrast between its ancient origins and current use/location is intentionally underlined. Digitalsignal 19:08, 01 May 2011 (UTC)
  •  Comment As you already has seen in FPC.. I don't oppose because the image is a little noisy or because the user don't have the latest technology camera etc.. neither I make comments like "no wow for me" etc. Aesthetically all this composition doesn't seem nice (Formalism). If I was there I was trying to make a close photograph of the "torre" which has most encyclopedic value in this composition. Ggia (talk) 21:48, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
  •  Info Thanks again for your reply, I appreciate your openness. I just can confirm what already explained: I wanted to render the "old" building in its "new" environment (a Blue Flag beach). I could have made the umbrella smaller, but I would get an unbalanced picture. Excluding the umbrella and supports would give me a huge tower smothering the surrondings. Digitalsignal 11:05, 01 May 2011 (UTC)
•  Support --Kiran Gopi (talk) 07:27, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 9 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /George Chernilevsky ^talk 13:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

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