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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 16 Mar 2013 at 12:47:25 (UTC)

Original – Heading toward Double Arch in Arches National Park, Utah, United States
Reason
High EV and good quality
Articles in which this image appears
Double Arch
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes
Creator
LucaGaluzzi
  • Let me rewrite that. Instead of HDR, maybe it was simply a matter of curves being used to bring up the shadows. Either way, the colors are not correct, and the image seems to have been corrected for the shadows, but the highlights (the largest portion of the image) is completely overexposed now. Random people walking in the foreground is distracting. I know these places can get swamped with people, and I'd suggest a tripod and multiple photographs taken within a close timeframe to paint out any human beings (without changing the light too much)—though one or two people used as a scale is always a good idea, but they need to be posed in a more impressive manner than looking like they're out of breath, hiking. Again, I know how hard it is to photograph these places and to make them appear as impressive as they really are. In addition, the crop is really tight at the top and the focus seems to be on the person—a family vacation composition as opposed to one displaying the grandeur of the rock. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 21:50, 9 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • It really does look that way, doesn't it? I finally checked out these Commons FP comments and he says he used a polarizer and curves for increasing contrast, so the image might've been overexposed to begin with (1/60, ƒ/5 at ISO 100), but the end result looks like it was really tweaked. – Kerαunoςcopiagalaxies 19:52, 10 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust The Homunculus 13:46, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]