Cerros de Incahuasi

Reason

Meets all FPC criteria. It illustrates the subject in a compelling way, making the viewer want to know more.

Articles in which this image appears

Cerros de Incahuasi, Salar de Talar, Norte Grande, Central Andean dry puna, Geology of Chile, List of mountains in Chile

Creator

Luca Galuzzi

• Support as nominator -- Elekhh ( talk) 10:54, 4 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support per nom. Goes a step toward correcting our shortage of South American FPs. Already featured at Commons and de:wiki. Good find. Durova ³⁹¹ 16:38, 4 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Had to prove to myself that it wasn't a painting. upstate NYer 04:01, 5 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Incredibly beautiful. Staxringold _talk ^contribs 22:37, 5 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Suppport Like UpstateNYer I took a while to be convinced this wasn't a painting... Purely breathtaking image... Gazhiley ( talk) 11:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support. Nice colours, good quality, now for the article. -- jjron ( talk) 13:19, 6 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support - sometimes the light is simply perfect - Peripitus (Talk) 23:00, 6 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support - absolutely amazing. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao ^{Che dicono a Signa?} _{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:51, 7 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Great image -- Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support per above. -- KFP ( talk | contribs) 20:58, 8 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support Excellent light. -- IP69.226.103.13 | Talk about me. 05:43, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support This is absolutely breathtaking. I had to come see it again - that's how I know it should be featured! mheart ( talk) 20:54, 9 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Comment The painting-like quality seems to be coming from some very aggressive noise reduction. Compare the original with the current version. I actually think the original is probably better - there is a lot of lost detail. Noodle snacks ( talk) 06:47, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Comment: Based on Noodle's above comments, I gave the original a very slight de-noise (detail was quickly lost in the mountains, so the sky is still a little noisy) and also kept the original colours; the edit that was voted on was over-saturated (I think, or it may have been a colour profile issue). See and "original" aggressively denoised and over-saturated edit. It may be taking too much liberty, but I uploaded over the top. As I see it, this was only a correction of a previous mistake, not really an alternative, and those who object can oppose the image and upload the painting-like one as an edit. Or, of course, you can revert my edit, I don't mind. I'm just extremely reluctant to see the spoiled version become featured due to people not coming back to the nomination and updating their votes (which is common). The other reason I decided to upload over the top is that both the Commons and the de.wiki nominations were for the noisy original: the aggressive de-noise and alteration of colours only happened months afterwards. Maedin\ ^talk 10:39, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
  • You could try doing a masked noise reduction, so that the sky is NRed heavily whilst nothing is done to the mountains. Noodle snacks ( talk) 10:49, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
    • Ah, that's beyond my current skill level, :) Maedin\ ^talk 10:52, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
      • What bit of software are you using? Noodle snacks ( talk) 10:56, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
        • Photoshop CS4 with the Noiseware Professional plug-in. I've got the software to do it, I'm just not sure how to, and would question my results. Maedin\ ^talk 11:01, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
          • Think I may have it. Perhaps you can comment on the upload in a moment. Maedin\ ^talk 11:14, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
            • Is it okay? I didn't do NR anywhere but sky. Maedin\ ^talk 11:26, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
              • I probably won't keep reviewing all the edits, but did notice when I voted that the mountains were soft on detail as mentioned here. So if someone improves on that situation while keeping the essence of what I voted on, consider this my support of said version. -- jjron ( talk) 13:42, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
              • I think it looks fine, the landscape has texture, and the sky is noiseless now. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 18:35, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
                • Agreed. Noodle snacks ( talk) 22:34, 10 January 2010 (UTC) reply
• Support - Per nominator. An extraordinary picture. - ☩ Damërung ☩ . -- 04:49, 11 January 2010 (UTC) reply

Promoted File:Miscanti Lagoon near San Pedro de Atacama Chile Luca Galuzzi 2006.jpg -- Makeemlighter ( talk) 09:49, 14 January 2010 (UTC) reply