Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/delist/Narbonne Cathedral D&R

Narbonne Cathedral D&R[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 27 Jan 2013 at 09:58:46 (UTC)

Reason: Just promoted, but was underexposed. Edit was added at the end of the nomination but there wasn't time for participants to consider.
Articles this image appears in: Narbonne Cathedral
Previous nomination/s: Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Narbonne Cathedral
Nominator: Jujutacular (talk)

Delist & Replace with edit 1 — Jujutacular (talk) 09:58, 13 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
D&R. Edit has more pop with no notable degradation in quality. I'm not sure I would have supported this originally, but given its recent promotion we may as well put up the better version. --jjron (talk) 11:44, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Frankly, the edit looks unnaturally bright to me. The original seems natural lighting, this feels like the cathedral has been moved to Arizona or another area noted for its dryness that lets more sunlight through. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:58, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The brightness of the shot is the result of a combination of things. The scene itself decides the distribution of brightness throughout the frame. The photographer decides the correct exposure to get the brightness of the frame well distributed on the image. Please look at the histogram of the original image. It is literally flat-lined at the top, no information -- it was incorrectly exposed when the picture was taken. Jujutacular (talk) 03:19, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not every image should use all levels of brightness, however. As a simple example, an image of a room filled with dark oak panels probably is going to tend towards the darker side, whilst a close-in shot showing detail in the White Cliffs of Dover is going to be mostly white. The real world doesn't always use the complete brightness spectra, and neither should we. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:39, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

An image of a room filled with dark oak panels should tend towards the darker side, but it should not be completely flat-lined at the top. At least, not for an encyclopedic photograph. If we wanted to be artistic that would be another matter. Likewise, an image of the white cliffs of Dover should tend towards the brighter side, but should not be flat-lined on the darker side. The image at hand, should definitely not be flat at the bright side of the spectrum, it is a picture taken out in the open in midday. Jujutacular (talk) 03:58, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I checked. There's a gradual trailing off in the upper range, as one would expect in an image that isn't over exposed. It doesn't "flat line", it just doesn't have a LOT of bright whites. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 05:47, 17 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Kept --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 10:04, 27 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]