Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Baldy Hill from Snowslide Valley, Craigieburn Range, Canterbury, New Zealand.jpg

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• Category: Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Natural#New_Zealand
•  Info created, uploaded and nominated by me. In this picture, I enjoy the unusual light. The sharp edge on the bottom is caused by the shadow of the surrounding mountains. The soft top is caused by snowy clouds. Because the resolution is quite good, you can study quite well different gradients of the same color but under different light conditions. -- Podzemnik (talk) 23:20, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Podzemnik (talk) 23:20, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Excellent. For once, the shadow makes it more interesting. Cmao20 (talk) 23:29, 13 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Toblerone with foil on top. --Cart (talk) 00:00, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 04:25, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 06:12, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Good quality, the shadows add sdd something tot the composition --Michielverbeek (talk) 06:33, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Striking view with this high contrast -- Basile Morin (talk) 08:20, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Wolfgang Moroder (talk) 10:30, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support.--Vulphere 11:24, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support --Palauenc05 (talk) 13:52, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 14:20, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose: beautiful overall and great composition, but the blown highlights above the shadow are too plentiful and thus distracting. They could perhaps be recovered from RAW. --СССР (talk) 15:22, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• You do realize it's snow which is lit by the sun before making such a statement, right? - Benh (talk) 18:56, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

And this negates the "burned highlights in large areas are a distracting element" part in the guidelines? The lighting in this scene is certainly challenging, but its not non an excuse to forego proper exposure and/or post-processing --СССР (talk) 19:52, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

To me white should appear white. Especially if it's under direct lighting by a harsh source. Interpreting the guideline as they are without taking into account the context is ridiculous sometimes. - Benh (talk) 17:15, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Snow, unlike, for example, a piece of highly polished homogeneous white plastic, has texture. And no amount of sunlight is going to change that. --СССР (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, but have you ever seen snow under harsh light? The dynamic range of human eye is not nearly enough to see the textures in those conditions, HDR-images are another story. —kallerna (talk) 04:46, 19 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This was taken an hour before sunset, when the light would've been anything but harsh. --СССР (talk) 03:57, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@СССР Thanks for pointing that out. I've reduce highlights and whites for that area that is nearly not clipping at all now. --Podzemnik (talk) 21:16, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Nicely done;  Support --СССР (talk) 00:50, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• @СССР Since a few folks here have risen conserns about the highlights, I've put them back close to original file (but they're still reduced). You can check it out as you might want to change your vote again. Sorry, it's quite hard to balance sometimes between my own opinion and everybody elses. --Podzemnik (talk) 20:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Understandable. I think the first revision was better, but I'm not going to change my vote out of spite. I do find it hilarious that some people suggest I don't know what snow is supposed to look like, having spent half my life in Siberia and other - in Canada. --СССР (talk) 21:55, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@СССР I think that things written down often look more serious than they actually are :) I often write something with a smile on my face and then when I read what I just wrote, it starts to look like it was written in anger, even though the opposite is the true :) --Podzemnik (talk) 22:11, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Very true. Lack of face to face input can be disorienting :-) --СССР (talk) 22:51, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support --Boothsift 18:18, 14 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:09, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support per Cart. Daniel Case (talk) 04:41, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose I don't think you did right to reduce the highlights. - Benh (talk) 17:18, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• Wow, what a way to make a statement. --СССР (talk) 23:37, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

•  Support --Llez (talk) 18:52, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support - Great photo. I don't think the revision was necessary, but I don't mind it, either. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 05:14, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Johann Jaritz (talk) 06:51, 16 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Oppose Per Benh. I'm afraid making dazzling white snow into grey isn't acceptable, and we shouldn't alter reality just because someone takes a rigid and, sorry to say this, ignorant view of how our guidelines should be applied. Sunlight snow is not grey. -- Colin (talk) 16:36, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• @Colin Thanks for the vote. Alright, I've restored the area. I only put highlights highlights at -15 which is nearly the same as it was before. --Podzemnik (talk) 20:42, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• •  Support Now. Thanks. -- Colin (talk) 07:12, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support -- Eatcha (talk) 20:24, 21 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
•  Support Confident support for an impressive image of a grand scenery! As the Canon 6D sensor sports 5.472 x 3.648 pixels, I assume that the image was stitched from three initial images in portrait mode. My full respect, no stitching artefacts visible, not even in the criss-crossing branches at the bottom. Yes, the snowy ridges in full sunlight are a trifle on the bright side, but only when viewed isolated from the rest of the image. Taking a step back and having a look at the full image, the bright and dark areas balance very nicely. --Franz van Duns (talk) 16:16, 22 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]