Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Elie, Manitoba tornado

Elie, Manitoba tornado[edit]

I read through the featured picture criteria, and it seems to match them all, but having never done this before I'm requesting advice to see if it is suitable for FPC.

Articles this image appears in: Elie, Manitoba tornado

Creator: Justin1569

Nominated by: Ks0stm ^(T•C) 03:19, 20 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

It's a fascinating picture, and well executed given the very difficult conditions. However, I don't think it's good enough for FP status. The background sky is overexposed, while the contrast of the foreground and main subject are quite poor. Fixing the latter issue only worsens the former issue. Also, there are sharpness/noise problems with all of the foreground detail. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 08:28, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Would agree with most of the above. Have been tossing this one up a bit. Quality is not great, but then again shooting conditions for something like this are not great either! I see this was recently promoted on Commons. Standards here tend to be a bit higher, but it's the type of thing that may be worth trying, though I would make no guarantees towards success. --jjron (talk) 14:14, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The blown sky bothers me. Do you have a raw original, or another shot, under-exposed, that could be used to improve it via HDR (and contrast reduction, not tone mapping)? This is why all photos should be exposure bracketed. And shot raw. —Darxus (talk) 05:04, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't have it, uploader Justin1569 was the one who took the pictures, so he would be the one to ask...however based on his contributions (name links to them in this comment), he seems to have been inactive since 2007. Ks0stm ^(T•C) 14:57, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - HDR tends to work best on static subjects, and this camera is unlikely to support Raw. FWIW HDR imagery has its uses, but is more often than not poorly done and unnecessary. --jjron (talk) 07:46, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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