Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley.jpg

File:Mesquite Sand Dunes in Death Valley.jpg, featured

Voting period ends on 9 Mar 2009 at 00:24:58

•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 00:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 00:24, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Nice!!! --Tomascastelazo (talk) 01:07, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support --staka.^talk 03:47, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support -- Dcubillas (talk) 06:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Poor quality (lack of details) and unnatural colours (oversaturated). Lycaon (talk) 09:17, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Wow! --Karel (talk) 09:43, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose Agree with Lycaon. —kallerna™ 13:39, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose per Lycaon --Dmitry A. Mottl (talk) 14:26, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Info The colors are due to sunrise. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:37, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Cosmic colors! Conan (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Support - For the composition and colours, and despite the downsampling (or crop?) -- Alvesgaspar (talk) 22:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose strange colors. --Estrilda (talk) 00:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Oppose I have to agree, the color of the sky isn't consentaneous. It looks like the sky was colored afterwards . Otherwise a nice composition --Richard Bartz (talk) 02:19, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Question could you offer the date, when it was taken?--Juan de Vojníkov (talk) 09:18, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

  Thank you for your question. The image was taken on October 22, 2007. I added this information to the image description.Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 12:48, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

•  Comment The colors are consistent with the area. For some reason the sky comes out just plain cyan. I´ve had this happen throughout the California and Baja California desert. The mountains and sand are right on in color also. My opinion is that it is unfair to disqualify a great picture based on a color interpretation because really there is no "right" color for anything. Too many variables affect color, starting with time of day, camera, monitor, interpretation of color, etc., etc. What I see in this picture is texture, color, and an informative picture with regards to a particular location. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 15:12, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

• Without commenting on this picture, I think that the color balance is an important point of evaluation. With an incorrect WB, the tone can be strange; the difference may be subtle but it will show colors that aren't real, so yes, there is a “right” color, at least if you want to show the reality. Imo the < Auto WB > on Canon cameras is pretty imprecise and it's better to select the WB corresponding to the light condition of the moment or, if possible, a gray card. Mbz1, what about trying to modify the WB for < Daylight > when developing the RAW file in Canon's Digital Photo Pro? Sting (talk) 13:06, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment, Sting. I am afraid you think about me too good. I rarely take raw imagws (too laizy I guess).--Mbz1 (talk) 13:40, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

Debate on colours comes up from time to time, for example on snow pictures - "too blue", etc. When we are at the scene, our eyes compensate for colour balance so we always see snow as white even if it is not because of reflected light from coloured objects, or intensely blue sky. Assuming that colour balance on the camera at the time of the photo is correct, we need to remember that the camera sees what is really there, not what we think should be there. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 00:58, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

And that's the problem: with AutoWB you don't know if the camera doesn't choose a weird temperature. I played with mine in a standard sunny afternoon outdoor scene, and if most of the colors looked acceptable (understand: close to reality), there was one (a green wall in my case) completely unreal, while a setting on Daylight was able to show the correct colors in the whole picture. Maybe it's what happened in Mbz1's picture. Sting (talk) 04:02, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

•  Support good, the sky is not a problem in this case.--Juan de Vojníkov (talk) 16:47, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support On reflection, and checking that there is, for example, natural gradation in the sky colouring, I rate this as useful for encyclopaedic content, and generally good enough for FP. Taking the picture at around sunrise avoids the flattening efect of overhead sun and shows the dunes as 3-d objects. -- Robert of Ramsor (talk) 01:07, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
•  Support Albertus teolog (talk) 22:14, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral => featured.  --Karel (talk) 14:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)