Commons:Quality images candidates/Archives April 16 2019

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Consensual review[edit]

File:Magenta_clematis_at_Boreham,_Essex,_England_2_lighter_render.jpg[edit]

  • Nomination Magenta clematis at Boreham. --Acabashi 09:20, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Decline
     Oppose Insufficient quality. --Piotr Bart 12:31, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
    I disagree. A little dark but good enough. @Piotr Bart: please always explain the reason for an opposing vote on QIC. Otherwise it can't be considered. --MB-one 19:14, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Most of the flowers are in deep shadows, and the ones that are not are in glaring sunlight. Either of that could have worked as a subject on its own in an isolated shot with an exposure appropriate for that section of the bush. In this shot with both in it, the flowers in the shadows are underexposed, the ones in the highlights are overexposed and neither of them actually works as a subject. --El Grafo 09:03, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
     Comment As I remember there was intense sunlight causing very deep shadows... you can't simulate or stimulate the effect of one without the other. And if I remember rightly, I did try cropping to reduce the bokeh and a lot of the dark area, but it looked dead boring... I've uploaded a crop version of just the (sharp) target of interest, which I think is devoid of excitement. I even tried to widen the HDR with DxO but that began to look too artificial. I do understand the points made here, and if it's declined that's fine by me. I do tend to forget that this a place where only the barren technical aspects of a photograph are judged. Many thanks for your comments. Acabashi (talk) 12:55, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
Total: 0 support (excluding the nominator), 2 oppose → Declined   --Seven Pandas 20:47, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

File:Aston_Martin_Vanquish_Vision_Concept,_GIMS_2019,_Le_Grand-Saconnex_(GIMS0804).jpg[edit]

  • Nomination Aston Martin Vanquish Vision Concept, Geneva International Motor Show 2019, Le Grand-Saconnex --MB-one 08:19, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
  • Decline
  •  Support Good quality. --Peulle 08:33, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
  •  Oppose It needs a perspective correction, the car is distorted --Poco a poco 08:36, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
  •  Comment I can't see distorted perspective... the wheels are aligned OK and orientated equally. I think the distortion effect might just be the shaped-in cabin design of the car. --Acabashi 11:58, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
  • People in the background on the left are definitely not straight but leaning out, so the images is leaning out and that affects the shape of the car. Poco a poco 16:36, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
  • @Poco a poco: , Ah yes, I see now what you mean. A viewpoint from above such as this shows a fanning out from the VP below the car, which will give a vertical lean-out of elements, this naturally becoming increasingly acute towards the edge of the image (men on left; partitioning on right). This explains somewhat the effect given here, although it maybe too severe, possibly caused by (Lightroom?) lens-correction barrelling of the image, which also causes horizontal stretch. This type of 'correction' attempts to force what we naturally observe (curved), to what we intellectually 'know' (straight). The answer could be to revert the lens correction, even adding pin cushion, which, however, would bring criticism that the lines which should be straight are curved, and the wheels which should be aligned are pointing in different directions. This image shows neatly the limitations of imposed artificial straight lines in 2-point and 3-point perspective as a device, which will ultimately fail when those lines run over the Horizon Line, necessitating curved-line 4-point perspective or forced parallel vertical lines causing an unnatural and unbalanced top/bottom-heavy 'looming'. --Acabashi (talk) 11:09, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Per Poco. Unfortunately after correction the front of the car will be cropped. So not fixable. --Smial 14:49, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
This looks like a crop from a larger original image; if so it might be reworked from that without cropping the car. --Acabashi 11:15, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
@Acabashi: you are right, it is cropped, but not on the right. So, I'm afraid, I can't make the verticals perfectly parallel without cropping into the car. --MB-one 08:44, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
  •  Oppose Further it is a bit too bright. -- Spurzem 12:55, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
Total: 1 support (excluding the nominator), 2 oppose → Declined   --Seven Pandas 20:47, 15 April 2019 (UTC)