Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Fitz Roy

Fitz Roy[edit]

Reason: The picture is crystal clear, you can almost imagine being there. It's an absolutely stunning picture.
Articles this image appears in: Cerro Chaltén
Creator: Alex Torrenegra

Support as nominator --Yerpdog (talk) 10:48, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - it's a nice image of a stunning scene, but it's not as sharp as you make out - below FP standard I'm afraid. There's also a small amount of chromatic aberration around the edges of the peaks. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 14:34, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Nice scene but my opinion is that it is not the ideal composition for EV. We don't need to see 50% of the image as a reflection in the lake and it could be better photographed from a higher vantage point (if possible, I don't know what is behind the photographer). Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 16:30, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is what's behind. Alternatively this or any of the pictures in the Monte Fitz Roy gallery. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξ φ 18:59, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose - The composition is aesthetic, not encyclopedic. Crop the reflection off and it might qualify. Kaldari (talk) 18:00, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cropping the reflection would delete information, not add any! de Bivort 18:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it would delete information about the reflection. The article isn't about the reflection. Kaldari (talk) 22:53, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's like saying the article isn't about the clouds, or the sky, or the lighting, or the composition. An FP photo can have valuable qualities other than its subject as long as it illustrates the subject well. de Bivort 05:07, 13 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Agreeing with above, the choice of portrait orientation seems needed to get the full reflection, but there is less space on the sides, which would have been an encyclopedic view of the mountains. A conventional landscape shot might have captured more information, or with more effort, several stitched portrait frames. Fletcher (talk) 20:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose-I agree with the cropping of the picture for re-submission. It would be the right picture for a Gallery on Wiki Commons, a sister website in the same Wiki tradition though. kdm85 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdm85 (talk • contribs) 02:20, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Cropping won't help the totally blown snow. (Yeah, I know snow is white, but I do expect something a little nicer than 252-255... ;-) --Janke | Talk 12:57, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not promoted MER-C 07:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]