Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Shore Temple

I don't think it can b a FP. I'm starting Photography as a hobby and just want some comments on this picture

I'd say you're off to a good start. Someone more knowledgeable than me can probably help you with some of the technical issues; to my inexperienced eye it looks like you need a higher MP camera (or a better lens), but I'm not one in the know. From an aesthetic/encyclopedic point of view, I think the picture was taken with the wrong orientation: we don't need to see that much blue sky or green grass, but we may want to see more of the temple, especially to the right. While tourists can sometimes be a hindrance to a good shot, I think they help here by providing a sense of scale; when I scrolled down the full-size picture, it struck me that the temple is actually much smaller than I thought at first. Matt Deres (talk) 20:24, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the comments. I'll try for lesser sky next time. That was taken with a mobile phone camera. 2MP. I'd like to ask you a question. Image:Cricket_picture.jpg was edited from Image:Pollock_to_Hussey.jpg. I was wondering how it is possible to just take people off the picture. Σαι ( Talk) 03:04, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There are a number of ways to do it; the most expedient is to just ask them to leave :-). I'm on a poor monitor right now so I can't examine the cricket pictures closely, but the editor most likely used a clone tool to essentially copy empty bits of grass over the person they wanted removed. For some reason, they then blurred or smudged the area afterwards, leaving those smeary clouds in his place. Careful use of the clone tool alone could give much cleaner results. Such images would not qualify as a featured picture on Wikipedia because it would constitute excessive digital manipulation. I wouldn't remove the people from your picture anyway since they provide a sense of scale for the building. Matt Deres (talk) 13:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Re the cricket pictures, it's not that they smudged the cloned area afterwards, it's just a really poor cloning job. The other thing they've done is to crop to the left which removed most of the umpire - any remaining umpire would have been cloned out, but I haven't looked closely enough to see if this would have been necessary. The other problem is that in doing this work they've not just messed up the picture, but actually reduced its encyclopaedic value. By removing the umpire and the runner - both common and indeed expected elements in that shot - the shot now contains less information and actually looks a bit weird. In fact I'm going to replace the modified version with the original in all its articles. --jjron (talk) 04:55, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]