Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Potala

The Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet[edit]

Amazing image of the majestic place, very artfully made

Nominated by: Efenstor (talk) 18:57, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: I'm not an author of it, just want to nominate it

This looks like it is a rather stunning place, but I doubt this particular image would succeed on FPC. Two problems that strike me, even in thumbnail, are the overexposed sky at the right (notice the very bright glarey clouds) and the composition (the hill that the palace is on is cutoff at the left, but there appears to be excess space at the right with those seemingly insignificant buildings). Images like this are frequently opposed too because of the busy foreground, where we see lots of people, cars, buses, etc. Thanks for putting it up on PPR. --jjron (talk) 09:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- If it won't pass I won't be distracted, it's not mine. Though I've always been curious why people are so nervous about overexposed clouds in photos, to me they look natural and rather pleasant (sure, if it's not too much, like on this pix), if they don't disbalance the overall composition they can even be a benefit and add a kind of naturalistic shining to a picture. Also never liked those newfangled HDR tone-mapped images, they look like a bad dream. Even raw processing doesn't help much in fighting overexposition if I want the image to be contrast. Efenstor (talk) 19:23, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I wondered what you wanted this scene to be about. About 30% of the shot was street, bus parking, and shopping. I saw a Tibetan palace that nearly touched the clouds. So I tried a crop and a few other tweaks. We're still left with flat lighting and haze - if you're able to reshoot please do so. And if you're too busy to get back, send me! :) Durova^Charge! 02:24, 2 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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