Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Baja coast 3.jpg

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Image:Baja coast 3.jpg - not featured[edit]

  •  Info created by Tomas Castelazo — uploaded by User:tomascastelazo — nominated by Tomascastelazo
  •  Support Tomascastelazo 21:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Black & White photograph--Hi-tacks 12:22, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose I see no reason for abandonig colours. Furthermore the picture is too dark and the time of exposure too long. So the moving water looks quite unnatural. Roger McLassus 18:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose - ditto to Roger McLassus, particularly re the long exposure. - MPF 22:06, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose B&W Erina 09:38, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support I think that cropping out about 1000 lines from the bottom would do it good. --Adamantios 20:53, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose Ss181292 19:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC) - I agree with Roger McLassus[reply]
  •  Comment One does not have to like all phototgraphs, that is ok. I welcome criticism, I accept it, but when people opine about photography, they too open up to criticism of their criticism. In this particular case it is obvious, given the reasons you express, that you do not possess the distinctions necessary to distinguish crafstmanship of photography. Read up a bit about judging photography, just like milk, it does the body (and mind) good. --Tomascastelazo 15:47, 8 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    •  Comment OK, but AFAIK the main purpose of Commons is information, not art. (Ergo: B&W photos=bad. Maybe it is a work of art, I don't know.) Maybe you should post this photo on DeviantArt, or something like that. :) --Erina 11:12, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Comment Erina, the comment is not about this photograph, but about the criticism I read about and the disqualifications of photographs on the basis that they are b&w (and other bogus reasons). My point is that if people are going to judge, to do so based on informed criteria and to state the reasons so the photographer can thus improve his techniques/motives. To criticize the critics is not very popular around here, but IMO, a lot of good, informative, technically good pictures get disqualified due to incompetence and thus deprive this effort of better participation. A critic has the duty to educate her/himself in the discipline she/he criticizes. At the same time, lots of "pretty" pictures get selected that have absolutelty no value due to the same shortcomings. The criteria is very inconsistent. Anyone with a basic knowledge of photography (and I am not talking about just any camera owner, as if owning a camera makes a photographer) would laugh at this forum. I believe that Wikipedia is a noble effort and my contributions are focused in bringing a little understanding of the medium. Problem is that I feel that people around here just do not like blunt talk. I quote Mark Twain: One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself. - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court --Tomascastelazo 12:42, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
2 support, 5 oppose → not featured Roger McLassus 09:26, 14 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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