Commons:Featured picture candidates/Image:Boiling lake in Yellowstone National Park.jpg

Image:Boiling lake in Yellowstone National Park.jpg, not featured

•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 -- Mbz1 (talk) 17:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Info Once Churning Caldron was a cool spring covered with colorful mats of microorganisms. This all has changed after earthquakes in 1978-79 superheated the water and killed the microbes. This once cool pool now averages 164°F and in 1996, it began throwing water 3-5 feet.
•  Support -- Mbz1 (talk) 17:15, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Question why is the colorspace "65536" ? is this a 16-bit picture ? Benh (talk) 17:21, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• Ah, Benh, I cannot disclose all my secrets to you :-). The question is, if you like the image or you do not.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Tell me your secret, I'll tell you if I like the picture or not ;). I've checked the picture and it seems it's in 16bit (65000 colors instead of 16 millions). I guess it's a mistake from editing it ?? Maybe you should upload a true color version of the picture. Benh (talk) 18:08, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• These are true colors. Here are some samples I found at the NET: [1], [2];[3][4]--Mbz1 (talk) 23:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• no, I'm not talking about the colours accuracy, I meant 24bit colours (16 million or something), sorry for the poor english. Your picture has 65000 and something (16bit). I see no reason for that. At least one of your other nomination below has 65000 colours too. Benh (talk) 15:18, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• It doesn't have "65000 colors" it's just a weird misuse of the exif tag. --Gmaxwell (talk) 19:14, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Then how did you check ? I'm still looking how to.. Benh (talk) 20:26, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I guess it has to do with 16-bit processing (so 48 bits in total) in Photoshop Elements but I don't have that program to play with. :) --Lerdsuwa (talk) 02:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

•  Support well done, nice picture. —αἰτίας •discussion• 17:25, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
•  Question Is it tilted? Look at the people in the background. Regards, Ben Aveling 20:47, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• I cannot see the tilt, but please tell me to what side the image should be rotated. Thank you.--Mbz1 (talk) 22:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

• I think a few degrees counter clockwise might be required. I could be wrong, it's hard to tell for sure with water when it's bubbling like that, but that would make the curved line at the bottom of the bubbling water sort of flat. And the people seem to be leaning too much to the right, as if the ground is actually more tilted than it looks in the picture. On the other hand, the trees on the left look about right. So I don't know, but I wondered, so I thought I'd ask. Regards, Ben Aveling 11:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you, Ben. I tried and it did not look right to me. If you'd like to try it yourself and upload your version please do.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:57, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

•  Support --Karelj (talk) 19:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose regretfully, some denoise filtering or compression artifact leaves the image with a splotchy feel. It's a neat subject, but I think this isn't quite our best work. --Gmaxwell (talk) 19:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support This one looks better than the edit. Muhammad 05:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Oppose Composition good, but, as per Gmaxwell, there's an overprecessed feel to the image. Did you took this with a EOS Rebel XSi? If yes, I'm surprised not to have a sharper image after a 4 to 1 pixel downsampling (if the camera is not the Rebel XSi, ignore my last sentence). a downsampling. --S23678 (talk) 14:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• I've no Canon XSi.--14:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

• Sorry, (XTi?, I'm looking at your other pictures to find your camera). Anyway, my point was about sharpness from downsampling. --S23678 (talk) 16:22, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

•  Oppose Have to agree with Gmaxwell. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 08:13, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

result: 4 supports, 3 opposes, 0 neutral => not featured. Benh (talk) 19:54, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Edit 1, not featured

•  Support--Mbz1 (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
•  Support -- Crapload (talk) 03:09, 8 July 2008 (UTC) came after 5 days, not counted, as per rule of the 5th day - Benh (talk) 19:54, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

result: 1 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral => not featured (rule of the 5th day). Benh (talk) 19:54, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Alternative 1, not featured

•  Support --Mbz1 (talk) 04:26, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
•  I guess nobody cares much about hot spring

result: withdrawn => not featured. Simonizer (talk) 10:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)